Project Name VIRAGO- Youth AGenda 2027 - Empowered Young Women for Sense of ActiVe CItizenship and EuRopeAn values

Main aim of VIRAGO project is promoting regional partnerships and wider civic participation of young women from 5 EU member states and 1 candidate country and by doing this fostering the sense of European citizenship and European values. The project will achieve this through development of a cooperation network model in the context of EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027. Main target group will be young women aged 18-29 years, who will sustain partnership initiatives, encourage wider civic participation for their peers in the democratic process and in society.Today young women in Europe have access to more opportunities for participation at all levels of governance and policy making. Empowering them to be actively engaged in civic life is crucial to achieve positive outcomes – skills development, confidence and competency building. From Latin VIRAGO means WOMAN WHO DEMONSTRATES HEROIC QUALITIES. VIRAGO project will explore specific role and status of European young women in 6 partner countries–Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Italy, Spain and Turkey. A balanced partnership between public bodies and NGOs is established, as well as between “old” and “young” EU member states and a candidate.