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Nine platforms, including solidarity, leadership, colors, connections, potential and more, promise young people a comprehensive experience that will last all year. With the promise that even the quarantine won’t stop the activities, the organizers say they have Plan A and Plan B planned for each of them. The events that would reduce the main flows are planned to be implemented during the warm season, ensuring all security requirements, if necessary, flow management and other measures.
Young people, which include people under the age of 29, in other countries and up to the age of 35, are promised a variety of events, from lectures to concerts. They were plentiful last year, from debates to various other ideas.
“A very important, long-awaited and promising day of many surprises, fun and pleasant surprises has really dawned, as a significant overdraft for all the years to come. In fact, almost all of you, and not only those who are here and those we do not see, have tried a lot, have worked a lot, have sacrificed time, sleepless nights, many activities to say today: yes, Klaipeda raises the profile of European youth. the flag of the capital in the city of Klaipeda.
The year will be not only a joy, an honor, but also a challenge, a responsibility, because the eyes of all Europe will be directed towards us. Eyes that expect surprises, rationality, youthful and ambitious solutions, hope to see the potential of the youth of Klaipeda, city, region, Lithuania.
It is beautiful and symbolic that the oldest city in Lithuania is becoming the European capital of youth. This contrast attests that it is maturity, youthful drive, rich and rich history, ambitious challenges that can bring fantastic results.
I believe in youth, in youth organizations, that have united the implementation of the title program for a common goal, for the common good. I hope that this is not just a calendar year, which will end very soon, but will leave a brilliant mark on the history of youth organizations, ”Klaipėda Mayor Vytautas Grubliauskas said at a remote conference, wishing for a youth boost.
The year will be not only a joy, an honor, but also a challenge, a responsibility, because the eyes of all Europe will be directed towards us.
The events are developed by young people
Greta Meškauskienė, Director of Klaipėda – European Capital of Youth 2021, says that this title was won by young people themselves, who wanted changes in their city.
“To achieve a change for the love of the city, what it would take for young people to want to stay here, to come back even after leaving, to grow up, to mature, to contribute to the creation of their city. This title in 2021 carries the message that we continue to invite young people to get involved in the project from the generation of ideas to its realization. The whole project is built in the direction we need to encourage young people to get involved, to contribute to activities to meet their needs.
We are changing, the city is growing, the community that will grow Klaipeda of the future is growing. What does youth capital promise? More than 70 activities that focus on the needs of today’s youth. According to the challenges, what the city of Klaipeda lacks is a little bit: how to encourage young people to get involved, to feel responsible for the city, for themselves.
The very idea of the project encourages: you have an idea, share it, the project will help you implement it. We have examples from last year, hopefully once we gain momentum, we will start with even higher expectations and ideas. The Klaipėda youth are not afraid of challenges, we see, we feel that the pandemic situation did not affect the desire to act, to do, we have a lot of potential.
We hope that 2021 will lay a solid foundation. Klaipeda will become an open and youth-friendly city like never before, ”says the manager.
Information on all events for young people and all stakeholders, as emphasized: the event for all who feel young can be found on the website chooseklaipeda.eu All relevant information is published on the social networks called Choose Klaipeda.
It will offer interesting experiences
Various youth organizations and educational institutions contribute to the program. Here is Aistė Motekaitienė from LCC International University on the cultural event about Ukraine that will take place in April. This will be a great opportunity for those who want to know the realities of this country.
“A team will be selected to go to Ukraine to organize a camp for children from the war zone. We will hold a conference on sustainable development in the fall. There will be many academic and solidarity activities,” the woman said.
The Maritime Museum has also devised activities for young people. According to the representative Jurgita Vasiljevienė, the main objective is to promote citizenship by mobilizing young people for communication across the Baltic Sea.
Educational Challenge events will be held in May, with the participation of schools. In June, a grand event is planned on Smiltyne Beach. It will be dedicated to World Oceans Day. According to the museum representative, the event is expected to gather around 3,000 participants.
In July, the GABYA newborn festival will take place in Smiltyne. This festival of ancient traditions and contemporary art will invite lovers of music and art under its vaults. Surrounded by nature, the four elements – water, earth, fire and air – will invite you to immerse yourself in the frenzy of music, the vertigo of art and culture, “savor” forest therapy and touch ancient crafts and thus obtain vital energy At the sea’s shore.
He took over from the French
According to the public institution Klaipėdos šventės, the port city took the title, which was expected for a couple of years, from the French city of Amiens. The project “Klaipėda – European Capital of Youth 2021” consists of nine platforms presenting ideas, challenges and problems of young people, as a weak political activity. , an aging city, the avoidance of “uncomfortable” subjects and people, the lack of an environment conducive to entrepreneurship and creativity.
The 2021 program includes 67 events, 70 different organizations, 133 ambassadors not only from many European countries, but also from countries as far away as Pakistan, Hawaii, India.
The title won is an extraordinary opportunity not only for young people but also for the city itself, to attract the attention of European youth, present the city in an international context and strengthen the identity of European youth. The inaugural event “Klaipeda – European Youth Capital 2021”, which will take place in March, will kick off the entire broad program of the project, organizers say.
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