Post event material

NEW: Read the RECOMMENDATIONS of the participants at the Youth Health Event!

Torino European Youth capital 2010 is also meant to be health and wellbeing experience!

Following the success of the conference on Youth and Health, organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the European Youth Forum and other youth organisations on 9-10 July 2009 in Brussels, the IUHPE-CIPES European Centre is organising a three-day event in Torino to offer young people an opportunity to have a real say about their health and to share their views with stakeholders from all over Europe.

This event is also intended as follow-up of the first European Conference on Youth health and well-being organised by the Italian Youth Ministry, which took place in Rome on 16-18 June. In fact, the event in Torino will focus on the same topics debated in Rome, namely sexual health and food-related issues.

In addition both topics are considered as priorities of the national governmental programme Gaining health in adolescence (Guadagnare salute in adolescenza) led by the Italian Health Ministry.

Personal wellbeing helps young people embrace change, feel positive about who they are and enjoy healthy, safe, responsible and fulfilled lives. Through active learning opportunities they recognize and manage risk, take increasing responsibility for themselves, their choices and behaviors and make positive contributions to their families, schools and communities.

As young people learn to recognize, develop and communicate their qualities, skills and attitudes, they build knowledge, confidence and self-esteem and make the most of their abilities.

As they explore similarities and differences between people and discuss social and moral dilemmas, they learn to deal with challenges and accommodate diversity in all its forms.

The world is full of complex and sometimes conflicting values. The aim of this initiative is twofold.

Firstly, it aims at helping the participants to explore this complexity and reflect on and clarify their own values and attitudes. They identify and articulate different feelings and opinions, learn to manage new or difficult situations positively.

Secondly, it aims at providing young people with opportunities in the perspective of co-shaping the environment which we all live in. Torino will be a platform for discussion and encouraging young people to pursue dialogue with authorities. This shall give them a chance to co-create our society which should be based on modern values, consensus, open-mindness. We wish young people take action and contribute to the future of the European Union with their ideas and visions as far as their health is concerned.

The initiative is realized with the support of DG SANCO, Municipality of Turin (Comune di Torino), Italian Youth Ministry (Ministero Italiano della Gioventù)



Background

The document published by DG SANCO “Roadmap for a better youth health in Europe” sets out a set of actions to be undertaken over the coming months as part of the Youth Health Initiative, building on the outcome of the July 2009 Be healthy, Be yourself Conference. food 4 mind. mind 4 health is thought to contribute in this direction, also in consideration of the previous experience of the Conference held in Rome (June 2010) and of the fact that Turin is the 2010 Youth Capital. (download background.pdf)

Friday, 22^nd October

Arrival of young participants in Torino at the Valentino Castle

 2 – 2.30 p.m.    Opening session – plenary session
                              Welcome from the authorities

2.30 – 4 p.m.      Lectio magistralis - Gunter Pauli

4 - 4.30 p.m.       Coffee break         

4.30 – 5. p.m.     Welcome from the organisers & youth organisations
                                Introduction to the programme

5 – 7 p.m.           YOUTH VOICE IN EUROPE – let’s get it started!

3 parallel sessions on TOPICS 1 (Sexual health), 2 (Food), 3 (Future thinking) introduced by key-note speakers . This space is meant to be a platform for discussion and to encourage the participants to pursue dialogue with authorities and to contribute to the future of the European Union with their ideas and visions as far as youth health is concerned.

7 p.m.                 Welcome reception at Valentino Castle

Saturday, 23^th October

Transfer from the Hotel to the Youth camp venue – Environment Park, via Livorno 58, Torino

9.30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

TOPIC 1 - Sexual Health – STIs

Lab with Mario Buchbinder – plenary session

1 – 2 p.m. Lunch

2 – 4.30 p.m.

TOPIC 2 – The food system challenge
“Food & health” workshops – parallel sessions (expert speakers + young chairs):
1) global market and inequalities – an Economics perspective, Roberto Burlando
2) local food system – a Systemic design perspective, Luigi Bistagnino
3) the body image – a Developmental Psychology perspective, Silvia Ciairano
4) communication & media - Audio-visual Documentation Centre “Steadycam” Piedmont Region, Asl CN2, Giuseppe Masengo

4.30 - 5 p.m. Coffee break

5 - 7 p.m.

TOPIC 3 – FUTURE THINKING & PROPOSING on Youth Health
Parallel sessions chaired by young participants on the following topics:
- Which topics are to be discussed after Torino?
- How can young people and institutions can contribute to the debate on youth health after Torino?
- Which youth health priorities at European level?
- Youth contribution to an effective Health in All Policies
- What actors to be involved?
- Which approaches/methodology should be used?
- Which best practices at national level?
- How to make young people participation in the debate on youth health effective?
7 p.m. Social evening - Torino by night (in cooperation with Giovani per Torino - GXT)

Sunday, 24^th October

Transfer to Youth camp venue – Environment Park, via Livorno 58, Torino

9.30– 12.30 a.m.

YOUTH VOICE IN EUROPE – the proposals
Messages from the participants to authorities and policy makers on Youth Health
3 parallel sessions chaired by young participants to prepare the presentations (proposals, questions, provocations) for the closing conference on:

        TOPIC 1 – Sexual health/STIs
TOPIC 2 – The food system challenge
TOPIC 3 – Future thinking & proposing

12.30 a.m. – 1 p.m.  Youth camp closing - plenary session

1 - 2 p.m. Lunch (tbc venue)

2 - 3 p.m. Transfer from Environment Park to the Oval Lingotto, Terra Madre’s venue, via Nizza 326

3– 5.30 p.m.
CLOSING CONFERENCE
- 3 Presentations “Youth voice in Europe”
- Video of the Youth Camp
- European and Italian authorities & policy makers reactions on youth presentations

Invited speakers from:
- European Commission - DG SANCO
- European Commission - DG EAC
- Ministry of Youth
- Ministry of Health
- Municipality of Torino
- IUHPE-CIPES European Centre
- WHO/EURO
- local authorities

5.30 p.m. Transfer to the Terra Madre closing ceremony venue - Pala Isozaki, Corso Sebastopoli 123

6-9 p.m. Terra Madre closing ceremony – dinner

            Transfer to the Hotel