Culture and Leisure Department – City of Solna, Sweden
The City of Solna is a Swedish municipality with 80 000 inhabitants, just ten minutes underground trip to Stockholm’s city centre. The Culture and Leisure Department support young people active citizenship. PPP-project will be based at Solna Youth Centre, a municipal youth service addressed to young people (16-26 years old). The centre is a meeting point within a café environment for young people where they have the opportunity to socialize, use Internet, play video games, design and create art (picture, film, music, etc.). In short, find and develop their areas of interest and realize their ideas with the support of professional staff, with special focus on youth culture and youth participation. Our participants include young people with fewer opportunities: special needs, economic difficulties, early school-leavers, refugees, etc. Our focus is on their abilities, knowledges and development possibilities.