Kids Got Rights! is a two-year project focusing on child participation and the empowerment of children through self-organisation and claiming their own rights. The project involves children from 8 to 13 years old in six international meetings and several national activities, besides a parallel research action, aimed at raising awareness and training children and adults around the topic of children’s participation rights.

The specific objectives of this project are the following:

1. To educate and raise children and adults awareness on children’s rights, with a specific focus on the participation rights
2. To support children in critically assessing the state of children’s rights in their everyday lives (schools, families, organisations, etc.) through the development of quality standards for the mainstreaming of children’s rights.
3. To empower children to facilitate their self-organisation in groups to claim their rights and make a complaint when their rights are violated.
4. To build knowledge on the state of child participation rights in children’s organisations, as well as the impact of the self-organisation of children on their development as citizens in a European context.

• Children Participation
• Children Rights
• Kids every dayrealities
• Educate KIDS & Adults
• Kids Hubs
• Kids leadership

1. Children’s Rights Superheroes

Each partner organisation form a national group of 15 children, so-called Children’s Rights Superheroes

2. Kick-off Meeting

The main objective of this meeting is to train coordinators and children on how to use co-design methodology for the self-analysis. It is focused on discovering aspects for self-analysis and aims to raise awareness about it. In this meeting, we will also go through the project tasks and timeline with the children.

3. Children Self-Analysis 

One of the project outputs will be a research paper on the impact of children’s self-organisation on their development as citizens in a European context. This activity would carry out a Self-Analysis by the children about their realities and situation in relation to children’s rights in their local context, including their organisations.

4. Sharing realities

Sharing realities meeting is an international meeting; partners will share educational practices and the results from the Children Self-Analysis.

5. Forming of Kids Hubs

This activity will start with children forming kids hubs in their national context. It will have two main streams: The First stream, training the children on participation rights and self-organisation to equip them with the necessary competencies to set up self-organised spaces to claim their rights. The second stream, The Kids Hubs, will conduct workshops from children to children and workshops from children to adults on Children’s Rights, especially children’s right to participate.

6. Check-in Meeting

A Check-in meeting is an international meeting where the project will monitor what has happened so far in the project and check in to advance the project plan and activities.

1. Research time

This part would include concluding the data collected from the research and studying the impact of children’s self-organisation on their development as citizens in a European context. It will examine the children-led activities conducting at the Kids Hubs.

2. International Kids Hubs meeting

This meeting will compile all the workshops and the training implemented in the Kids Hubs into one toolkit of educational activities for children’s rights education by children for children and by children to adults. Additionally, the meeting will plan and design two social media campaigns to raise awareness on the EU level on mainstreaming children’s rights and complaints procedures for children when their rights are being violated.

3. Social Media Campaigns

Implementing two social media campaigns at the European level to raise awareness on children’s participation rights as developed during the International Kids’ Hubs Meeting: one campaign targeting children (promoting the use of the complaint procedures developed in the handbook) and one targeting adults (sensibilisation and information to raise awareness on the need to mainstream children’s rights)

4. The Children of Europe Conference

The conference will be a place for the children to raise the awareness of adults and children on mainstreaming children’s rights, mainly the rights to spaces to be heard, the rights to set up and join groups, the right to access information and to be taken seriously in the public decision-making processes.

5. Final Evaluation Meeting

The Final Evaluation meeting will conduct a Final evaluation of the project with representatives from the national groups of Children’s Rights Superheroes and the project coordinators using individual and group qualitative and quantitative assessment methods.

6. Handbook

Child-friendly handbook on quality standards on participation rights, awareness-raising for children’s rights advocacy, and complaint claim procedures by collecting available material and those developed throughout the project with a strong focus on evidence-based assets.

Toolkit

Handbook

Social Media Campaigns

Kids Got Rights is a project funded by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2022)