Bruges questions youth through game ‘Bruggebaas’

The city is launching the ‘Bruggebaas’ project, in which it questions children and young people about the policy by means of a game. What should the Bruges of the future look like for them, for example? Pupils of Freneitschool De Boomhut in Sint-Andries test out the game.

But will the results be listened to? Mathijs Goderis, alderman of Youth Bruges: “That is certainly the intention. We really want to include the input from that survey in the next policy choices. We even want to take that input to the next legislature. This actually fits within the framework of Bruges as a child-friendly city. We have been a child-friendly city for five years this year, so we actually want to go the extra mile and structurally give the children and young people in Bruges a voice through this project.” (continue reading below the photo)

Repeat annually

25 Bruges schools are already participating in Bruggebaas. The city hopes to be able to do this in every primary and secondary school. “The intention is that we will repeat this annually so that we can not only measure the evolutions and trends, but that we can actually measure the effects as well. Because within six years we will see these students again in sixth secondary school. Then they will ask the question again. occasionally we can even see how this generation thinks about the city.”