Research project
Project promoter: Slori-Slovenski raziskovalni inštitut
Project performer: Slori-Slovenski raziskovalni inštitut
Project implementation period: 2007
The project was developed thanks to the financing delivered by the Service for sports, recreational and political youth activities of the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia. It represented the continuation and the integration of the project “Involvement in associations: the intergenerational confrontation as an opportunity for growth”, carried out in 2006. The aim of the project was to study and promote the active involvement of young people in the youth associations in the Trieste province.
The project was made up by two separated parts:
1) Survey about the motivations that drive young people towards the participation in the activities of volunteers associations and organisations, which operate on the territory.
The mainly explorative study examined 200 interviewees aged from 15 to 35, who live in the Trieste province. During the survey all the interviewees were formally members of volunteers’ associations or organisations. The survey involved a thick network of both Italian and Slovene youth, cultural, sports, recreational, religious and volunteers’ associations. To gather the data a questionnaire was submitted to the interviewees, who answered the questions in our offices with the help of our operators. The questions were about four main thematic units: the general features of the interviewees, free time, the relation with the territory and especially the participation in associations, with an analysis of the motivations, which lead young people to take part in associations and play an active role within the executive bodies.
2) Meetings/workshops on the theme of the motivation of young people to participate in the activities of associations and organisations.
After the survey was carried out, we organised a series of formative workshops. The workshops were free and open to anyone, and especially to those, who take active part within the youth associations and organisations. The participants tested their motivations for participation with the help of auto-stimulation techniques. Afterwards they learned how to use those techniques with other people, thus developing new ideas for their work.