YouthMove15 aims to build more child-friendly cities by understanding children's unique needs and turning that into real tools, policies, and change.
Explore project
YouthMove15 researches children’s lived experience in their neighbourhoods and explores:
what they want, what stops them, and how cities can work for them too.
Children’s mobility desires are not integrated into urban planning.
YouthMove15 will diagnose the desire-opportunity gap and co-create solutions to inform the next generation of city planning.
Whose ideas, voices, and experiences are not a footnote — they are the starting point for everything we do.
Who want to embed sustainable mobility and placemaking into everyday curriculum and school activities.
Who need evidence and practical tools to include children in mobility planning and public space design.
Who work with children from underrepresented and vulnerable communities and need inclusive participation methods.
Who are studying children’s geographies, urban mobility, participatory planning, and the 15-minute city concept.
YouthMove15 runs five Urban Living Labs across Europe. Each shaped by its own community context, each asking the same question: how do we build child-friendly cities?
how children and young people experience their cities — their desires, their barriers, and the gap between the two.
inclusive tools and programmes with schools, communities, and cities that address that gap in practice.
what we learn and turn it into knowledge, guidance, and policy recommendations that anyone can use.
26 organisations across 5 countries.
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Oxford Brookes University (OBU)
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG)
Budapest University of Technology, UFLab (BME)
All 26 partners have come together for the first time, aligning on methodology,
governance, and the plan for each of the five Living Labs.
Now the journey begins.
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