Radically Adolescent Community Fund
April 7, 2025 | 21 proposals have been selected
The selection phase of the first edition of the Radically Adolescent Communities Fund, funded by the PN Metro plus 2021-2027 and promoted by the City of Bologna and the IU Rusconi Ghigi Foundation, has ended to support, with economic and project resources, the youth proposals to be carried out in the six districts of Bologna.
The call, which ended on March 9, 2025, collected a total of 76 applications from groups of girls and boys between the ages of 14 and 20, who presented ideas to improve the city. More than 230 young Bolognese people involved, whose ideas were evaluated on the basis of
four fundamental criteria:
- innovation and creativity
- social and territorial impact
- participation and involvement
- feasibility and sustainability
At the end of the evaluation, the commission selected 21 proposals, which will be funded for a total of 30,000 euros. The projects selected will see the active involvement of young people in the six districts of Bologna, with at least three initiatives for each neighborhood, ranging from cultural and social projects to sports proposals
. The
proposed activities range from the care and reappropriation of aggregation spaces to the organization of sports tournaments, from participatory art events with the involvement of young artists from the Bologna underground scene to live shows by emerging artists, and then workshops for the construction of musical instruments, workshops on hip hop culture, boxing meetings, chess tournaments, book clubs, swap parties. And more meetings and talks on topics such as cyberbullying, the fight against the mafias, affectivity, active citizenship.
Each proposing group has identified a mentor figure, often belonging to social cooperatives, youth aggregation centers, schools or cultural associations, who will accompany the girls throughout the journey, offering support and support in the development phase of the
proposals.
Starting from April 2025, the idea-to-project training course will start, a short cycle of co-design meetings, coordinated by the IU Rusconi Ghigi Foundation and dedicated to youth groups selected to acquire tools useful for transforming their ideas into concrete, sustainable projects capable of generating a positive impact on the city's neighborhoods.
Each selected initiative will be subject to approval by the competent institutions and formalized through an agreement between the parties involved, which will be defined through a special collaboration agreement
.
In May 2025, the selected projects will be presented to the city, to then be launched by the end of the year in all neighborhoods.
The Community Fund represents one of the pieces of Radically Adolescents, the strategy of the Bologna Municipal Administration defined for and with adolescents, which includes 10 new actions and services aimed at them to respond to growing educational challenges and create a youth representation for Bologna, capable of encouraging the leadership of the boys and girls of the City.
The 21 winning projects
Borgo Panigale district - Reno
Helping the Nicholas Green with new ideas — Nicholas Green Park
A practical laboratory of creativity and shared care to improve the park.
Olmi Fest — Giardino degli Olmi
Concert with young artists from the Bologna underground scene.
Day of Social Sport — Giardino degli Olmi Sports
day including soccer, volleyball, soccer tennis, spikeball, frisbee
and slackline
Navile district
Armonoise — Parco della Zucca/Villa Angeletti/Montagnola (to be defined) public
event to discover music, meditation and the construction of musical instruments.
Music on the streets — Piazza Lucio Dalla Artistic
performances to promote the socialization of young people who attend Bolognina.
Culturap - Texts and heads! — Piazzetta Maccaferri (Gorki Center) Street
show-style rap and freestyle battle workshops.
Bolognina Boxing Camp — Corte 3, Via Nicolò dell'Arca Outdoor boxing
meetings in the heart of
Bolognina.
Porto District - Zaragoza
Sport in Velo — Velodrome Park
Tournaments and sporting events on the soccer field in memory of Fallou.
Konvivio — Liceo Righi (to be defined)
Redevelop an unused space in the school to make it a meeting place and lunch for students.
Giardino Carracci — Carracci Middle Schools
Redevelopment of the school garden
with natural furniture.
San Donato district - San Vitale
Outside the neighborhood — Piazza dei Colori A multi-day
journey in collaboration with Libera to discover new places and themes such as the fight against the Mafia and educational poverty and the organization of a video-photographic exhibition.
Spaziolento — Il Casalone
Space to be used to facilitate more functions for workshops, study and socializing for boys and girls between 14 and 20 years old.
Solidarity connections in Cyrenaica
After School with books and shared activities in a space for multicultural aggregation.
BarattiamoloStile — CBF premises (Via Libia 53)
Swap party
as an alternative to fast fashion.
Santo Stefano district
FestAbo — Filla (Montagnola) Student press
festival in the new Montagnola spaces.
Scacco Matto — Parco Montagnola/Baraccano (to be defined)
An outdoor space for playing chess
Sex Education — Teatro del Baraccano (to be defined) Sentimental education with an interactive
show.
Savena district
We Are Savena — The entire digital youth
community district to tell the story of the Savena district through social media.
A Children's Place — Cr.esco Populonia
space Equip the courtyard with a basket, soccer goals and benches to enjoy the nice days.
Let's improve our center — Cr.esco Abba 6
Equip the center with Playstation, foosball, table tennis and basketball hoop.
Urban Festival — Square in the neighborhood (to be defined) Urban
festival organized by girls and boys with dance, writing, DJing, MCing
More information on the site:
https://www.bolognazerodiciotto.it/progetti-018/radicalmenteadolescenti/fondo-di-comunita-folder