How it works

There is a Hub for each country involved (UK, Ireland, Germany and Estonia) and an EU Hub. A Hub is a website with information and results, to be used by young people and policy-makers.

We’ve been working with young people and policy-makers to choose topics, looking at any area that has an impact on how we use the Internet. For the UK, we’re going to focus on:

  1. Cyberbullying
  2. Child abuse
  3. ID theft, privacy and phishing
  4. File-sharing

though groups can also choose their own topics.

We’re putting together information about these topics that will get people interested and support useful and realistic discussions. This goes on the Hubs.

  1. Youth groups (or groups of young people) explore the topics in their own online spaces: youth group forums, social networking spaces, blog pages etc. HUWY partners help the youth groups through workshops (offline).
  2. Youth groups post their results and suggestions on the Hubs. These will be organised/ tagged to make it easier for people to find the ideas they need.
  3. We also have people in governments and parliaments involved (policy-makers). These people will read young people’s ideas on the Hubs. They will either use the ideas to make better policies and laws or help to pass them to the right people at the right time. Policy-makers add feedback to the Hubs about how young people’s suggestions have influenced new policies. They can also tag them to make them more useful to other policy-makers.
  4. Young people can also respond to Policy-makers’ comments

There is also an EU Hub. Suggestions and feedback from the national Hubs feed into an EU Hub for EU organisations, especially the European Parliament, to use.

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