2022 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
16th Edition
The Ambassadors Program Politize! is based on generating personal and professional development experiences and providing opportunities for connections with other people. The base is in Florianópolis and 85 other cities in Brazil. We deliver high value-added experiences by providing free access, using easy and concise language, valuing plurality and providing continuous monitoring of network members. We have our own model for training leaders, which is composed of four modules: political knowledge, plural dialogue, citizen empathy and community protagonism. Each module was designed to cover theoretical, tooling and practical aspects, providing a complete, fun and active journey for the participants. We cover content on the electoral process, party pluralism, civil liberties, government functioning, political participation and political culture, giving a greater focus to the last two, as they are our weakest points. In addition to content and practice, we work in detail to strengthen ties between the members of our networks, making the creation of social capital and the feeling of trust receive due attention.
But we don't just create value for the participants in our experiences. Politicize! believes that political education should reach anyone, anywhere. Therefore, all experiences are made up of challenges that make the participants have to impact other people, carrying out different activities and actions, which disseminate values and strengthen democracy through actions of engagement, connection and awareness of the population, such as the workshop on Fake News and on Non-Violent Communication. Therefore, the axis also fulfills the objective of democratizing access to political knowledge while forming a new generation of public leaders.
In the long term, the initiative strengthens democratic values such as freedom, dialogue, collaboration, the common good and respect for differences, in addition to promoting the political education of young people who will be able to think and act on solutions to transform their reality and local problems. We connect people from different cities, regions, realities and histories for a common goal: to strengthen culture and democratic participation in their cities. We understand that the development of young people capable of exercising and disseminating such values and practices is an indispensable condition for the strengthening of democracy.
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