The think tank INVI receives a grant from the Tuborg Foundation to create the Danish Parliament's Wild Week.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen wants to ensure that young people's perspectives are taken into account when writing policy in the future. She and the government promised this on Wednesday when they announced the new ministerial reshuffle.

A big and ambitious goal that is music to INVI's ears. INVI is in the process of developing "Folketingets Vilde Uge" - an experiment to bring young voices into the heart of democracy.

The experiment is carried out together with the youth organization SAGA DK and is supported by the Tuborg Foundation. The grant will be used to test and develop the concept.

The development of the event format will take place from November 2024 to April 2025, and the project will engage young people in the regulation of artificial intelligence.
The goal is to bring young people's perspective on the challenges of artificial intelligence to Christiansborg. Not least because it is the future generations in particular who will have to live with the positive and negative consequences of artificial intelligence.

The project has three components:

1. Young people and established social actors collaborate to develop future scenarios and hypotheses about how the scenarios will be achieved

2. An assembly of 150 young people representative of Danish youth prioritize scenarios and which hypotheses should be tested

3. A panel of decision-makers assess the hypotheses with an audience of approximately 200 young people

The vision is to gather the three steps in a recurring event over a week at Christiansborg, where actors from all levels of society move closer to concrete solutions at the back door of democracy. Solutions we can put into action tomorrow.

The Danish Parliament's Wild Week will be a step towards bringing civil society perspectives right into the center of power. This is an important development because 66% of Danes believe that political decisions should involve perspectives from more stakeholders than is the case today. This is according to a brand new analysis from INVI. At the same time, more young people feel that they are far from the decision-makers.

"There are many formats that engage young people in the democratic conversation, but there is a lack of an initiative that translates the many good ideas into concrete initiatives that actually work," says Sigge Winther Nielsen, Director at the think tank INVI, and continues:

"Many of the wild problems are particularly relevant to young people, both in the short and long term. That's why it makes perfect sense to organize the Danish Parliament's Wild Week in collaboration between INVI, the youth organization SAGA and the Danish Parliament."

Mathias Findalen, Program Manager for Democracy at the Tuborg Foundation, adds:

"We want to engage more young people from different backgrounds in democracy. In the process leading up to the Danish Parliament's Wild Week, young people gain concrete experience with prioritization and problem solving - but also knowledge about what it takes to create political change. We look forward to following the process."