Data_Sheet_1_Enhancing young people's individual skills and knowledge. The case of vulnerable youth participating in co-creative policymaking in housing in the city of Barakaldo.docx

This research aims to explore in what extent young people can enhance their individual skills, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors by taking part in urban policymaking co-creation processes. The empirical study conducted within the UPLIFT project is based on two main theoretical influences: co-creation and youth participation in policymaking and the capability approach. The author found that the young participants in the UPLIFT co-creation process in Barakaldo who were encountering vulnerabilities or difficulties in housing, experienced positive individual effects from their participation in the process. Framed in terms of the Capability Approach, the process impacts positively on young people's individual abilities (individual factors) that may influence their opportunities (capabilities) and life strategies (functionings) in the housing domain. In the following lines, I also suggest a set of critical aspects that need to be pursued in a co-creative policymaking process to help increase the vulnerable young participants' knowledge and attitudes toward community planning initiatives in the field of urban policymaking.

本研究旨在探讨年轻人在参与城市政策共创过程中，在何种程度上能够提升其个人技能、知识、态度和行为。在UPLIFT项目中进行的实证研究，基于两大理论影响：政策共创与青年参与政策制定以及能力方法。作者发现，在巴拉克劳德UPLIFT共创过程中遇到住房脆弱性或困难的年轻参与者，通过参与该过程获得了积极的个人影响。从能力方法的角度来看，这一过程对年轻人在住房领域影响其机会（能力）和生活策略（功能）的个人能力（个人因素）产生了积极影响。在下文中，我还提出了一系列在政策共创过程中需要追求的关键方面，以帮助提高脆弱年轻参与者对城市政策制定领域社区规划倡议的知识和态度。