Young People’s Parliament

The Portuguese Parliament has organised since 1995 yearly sessions of the 'Young People's Parliament' (O Parlamento dos Jovens), with the main aims of showing young people the values and practice of democracy and to further citizenship education. It is also part of our project aims to engage students in discussing legislative decisions on scientific and technical issues, in a similar process of reproducing parliamentary processes. We are seeking the possibility of direct collaboration with this sucessful parliamentary initiative.

The last sessions of this initiative, held in May 2006, had as themes 'Portuguese Language' (secondary level schools) and 'Education and Citizenship for Road Security' (2nd and 3rd cycle of basic schooling). Following Resolution no. 42/2006 approved by the Parliament on 11 May, a single session for secondary level schools will be organised each year. The programme of the 2007 sessions for both levels will be posted on 11 September at the Parliament's website.