Other youth projects

ProDemos offers a number of projects that encourage young people to participate in the political process at both the national and local levels. We have projects for primary schools, secondary schools and senior secondary vocational education (MBO). Examples include:

Shadow elections among schoolchildren

Who would be sitting in the House of Representatives if young people had it their way? To find out, ProDemos holds shadow elections during election time among primary and secondary school pupils, allowing them to experience the democratic process firsthand. These ‘Scholierenverkiezingen’ have been held since 1963.

Social internship at the parliament

Every year ProDemos collaborates with the House of Representatives to organise a social internship for pupils at the House of Representatives. During this week-long program, the pupils are shown around by various parliamentary staff members, including ushers, facility management, security and canteen staff. They have the opportunity to interact with parliament members, visit the Senate and participate in educational activities coordinated by ProDemos.

Please note: these projects are in Dutch so they are not accessible to English speaking students