Our Method
The task of the conferences is to single out challenges for the open democratic society and to develop policy proposals for dealing with the challenges. After the conferences, the proposals are developed in the “IYTT Bottom-Up Policy Advise Loop”. Through the loop the Youth Fellows learn and develop their policy proposals by open deliberations with decision makers, scholars, peers in the IYTT Youth Panel, and laymen.
Commissioned research overviews reveal the state of knowledge with relevance to the policy proposals. In dialogue with the author, the Youth Fellows contribute to the focus, delimitation, and reporting of the research overviews in the form of working papers. Based on the working papers, the Youth Fellows develop their original policy proposals into draft policy briefs. Embedding the core ideas of the policy drafts in another layer, we then bring in additional ideas from the IYTT Youth Panel. To finally give the proposals a broader popular embeddedness, the Youth Fellows organize local study circles around Europe to which laymen and peers are invited to discuss the proposals of the policy briefs drafts. The ending result is policy briefs which are published on the IYTT’s website and presented in public seminars.
