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There are several issues related to young people living in the Limassol region that we would like to address with this pilot project. The first one is the lack of awareness about social rights and ENTER recommendations among young people, the second one is the social inequality and awareness about the existing mechanisms among local youth to address the social rights issues via existing online and offline possibilities that local and central government provides to the young people and for those with the fewer opportunities. In the Limassol region, we have a significant number of young people living in the neighbourhood including those with a migrant background, (mainly from former Soviet countries and the middle east) who lack sufficient access to employment, (for example, Youth unemployment in Cyprus is one of the highest in EU according to the latest 2022 Statistics, we are on the third worst place with 8.8%.) housing, to sport and leisure, to non-formal education, poorly involved in local democracy and other opportunities that exist on local and national levels. Besides migrants, we have locals who also have similar issues and need to be supported and/or empowered. Another issue is that few non-youth organizations or any structures working with youth are aware of the ENTER recommendations and involved in supporting the above-mentioned groups through the social rights dimension. This happened due to a lack of information and competencies about social rights and the capacity to promote them. Local and central government structures that are responsible for youth affairs are having similar issues that non-governmental organizations have about social rights promotions. Overall, young people are not involved enough in local democracy and are not in the dialogue with local government meaningfully, due to a lack of or not enough competencies among young people and capacities among the youth organisations.

Youth participation could highly contribute to the improvement of social rights among the local youth with fewer opportunities. Raising the voice of young people on social issues is the key to its salvation