International Workshop on Youth Organizing

Background

The International Workshop on Youth Organizing is hosted by the Raging Queers collective, a research community that emerged from the European K-Reporters project in Groningen, the Netherlands. This youth-led workshop embodies the participatory principles and ethics of care central to K-Reporters and Raging Queers: placing youth at the heart of knowledge production, event design, and community-building. This workshop will thus function both as an academic event and as a living experiment in participatory ethics of care, disrupting hierarchical knowledge production by positioning queer youth as co-researchers, organizers, and producers of knowledge on children and youth's politics, well-being, and community building.

• Organizing team: Raging Queers Collective.
• RUG Academic staff in the organizing team: Mónica López López and Mijntje ten Brummelaar.

Dates

19, 20 & 21 May 2026

Location

Groningen City Cen​ter (multiple locations)

Free admission

This international workshop is supported by the EU-funded K-Reporters project through the University of Groningen.

Pre-registration

Please register to receive more information about this international workshop.

For whom is this international workshop?

This youth-led international workshop is for three key groups of participants:

1. Community organisers track
   For you if: You’re organizing protests, running youth groups, advocating for LGBTQIA+ rights in schools and communities, or fighting for better policies on issues like trans healthcare or anti-bullying measures. If you are not doing those things yet, but you would like to learn more about your rights and perhaps become a community organizer, then this track is also for you.
   
   This track is also for those working on other justice struggles: for example, coordinating climate strikes or environmental justice campaigns, organizing around anti-racism and migrant justice, or defending human rights in your city or region. And it is for older community organisers as well: if you’re committed to supporting youth leadership, learning how to better engage young people, fostering and participating of intergenerational dialogues in social movements, and creating collaborative spaces across different causes and generations.
2. Research & citizen science track
   For you if: You are a young person participating in or co-leading research projects (like interviewing other youth about their experiences) or a researcher using participatory methods where youth have real power in designing studies, analyzing data, and sharing findings. This track is also for people who are curious about research and want to explore pathways into academia, especially if you have a refugee background.
3. Artists using art as politics track
   For you if: You create art (poetry, murals, music, zines, performance, digital art) to challenge oppression, amplify youth stories, or spark social change or a young artist engaged in art based research used in social sciences, humanities or art, or a young art educator interested in participatory pedagogy or artistic pedagogical methodologies for your research projects involving community building.
   
   *tracks will not completely overlap, you will have the opportunity to follow workshops in different tracks.

 Programme

 To be shared by April 15.