2025:Program/CEE Youth Group: meet our working groups

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Session title: CEE Youth Group: meet our working groups

Session type: Poster

Track: Community Engagement

Language: en

CEE Youth Group is a group created in August 2023 by the CEE Hub. It's target is to unite the Youth community in the CEE countries and promote Wikimedia practices among Youth while also helping a lot with building multidimensional capacity for its members. The presentation is aiming to show the various youth projects around CEE and highlight the importance of the group while highlighting also the importance of applying the model elsewhere.

The CEE Youth Group has continued to grow since then. We have made more work to grow our working groups which have now their own meetings and a formal procedure, helping to shape the rules and the constitution of the group (internal governance group) and the social media presence of the group (social media group) where we promote the work of the members.

Description

The presentation runs in parallel with the presentation of the CEE Youth Group as a part of the general presentation of the youth groups that has been proposed (https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/talk/review/PAVSYSWD9UPLNKBKBHSRYQ93EJXWRNUR) The poster session is including basic information about CEE Youth group.

It explains concisely the history of the group, our working groups and what they do.

How does your session relate to the event theme, Wikimania@20 – Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?

Inclusivity: The CEE Youth Group is a place where young people in CEE region can exchange capacity, skills, connect with each other, share experiences and many other things. They are also building their skills and knowledge in a safe space that allows Youth potential to shine. Impact: By creating a new generation of young Wikimedians, we are training them to become the leaders of the future. We thus prepare them with the necessary capacity to be the leaders for the movement for years to come and help supply the movement with the new generation of people that will keep it thriving. Also it increases the motivation of young people to contribute and edit and it's a link between young people. It gives a semblance of Wikimedic identity. Sustainability: The group trains young CEE Wikimedians in key Wikimedia skills as it's evident from the working groups of CEE Youth that the poster mentions. Thus we are preparing the new generation of young Wikimedians that will succeed the aging current generation, ensuring a flow of new ideas and innovations that will provide new avenues for the Wikimedia movement.

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Average knowledge about Wikimedia projects or activities

Speakers

• Nikos Likomitros

Nikos Likomitros is a Greek Wikimedian. He contributes since 2013, regularly from 2016 there. He has been involved with young Wikimedians since pretty earlier in his Wikimedia career, by helping a lot with cementing a stable community of youth, teenagers and students. He has organized various editathons in Greek Wikipedia and is a member of the Greek Usergroup. Moreover since 2023 he is involved in the Wikivibrance network and he is involved on youth projects, while he is also member of CEE Youth Group. He is interested on affairs related to youth and Wikimedia movement but also for developing communities. He has done Wikimedia outreach in 2 universities so far, being a key member of Wiki for Minorities international network and in 2024 he made an online webinar for Greeks in Germany. He also collaborated with the Armenian primary school in Athens where the young students will write on Armenian culture in Greek Wikipedia and will lead more projects in his university this year. He also attended the two CEE Youth Group meetings in Prague, Czechia where he learned a lot about youth projects from around CEE and shared his own experiences. He is also a member of the organising committee of the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 in Thessaloniki, the first international Wikimedia event in Greece after the 2023 hackathon. He's interested on international collaborations, the future of the movement, governance, experience exchange and Wikimedia ecosystem.