Secondary Schools Dr. Francisco Fernandes Lopes, from Olhão, and Júlio Dantas, from Lagos, and the Colégio Internacional de Vilamoura were the winners of the “Parliament for Young People – Secondary – 2021/2022” program at district level, following the district session of this initiative, which held on the 15th of March.
In practice, this means that students from these establishments will represent the Algarve in the national session of this program, scheduled for the 30th and 31st of May, more precisely Francisco Fernandes Marreiros (spokesperson for the district of Faro) and Rodrigo Soares Raposo, from Escola Secundária Dr. Francisco Fernandes Lopes, from Olhão, Miguel Filipe Ribeiro and Iara Sofia Varela Martins, from the Júlio Dantas Secondary School, in Lagos, and Beatriz Ferreira and André Martins, from the Vilamoura International College.
According to the regional director of the Portuguese Institute for Sports and Youth (IPDJ), at the district session, in which 70 students from 15 schools in the region participated, they approved a «set of measures that the young people of the Algarve propose to be taken into account by the Assembly of the Republic», inspired by the theme “Fake News: The impact of Disinformation on Democracy”.
The IPDJ emphasizes that the students involved «demonstrated a great capacity for intervention, reflection and a critical spirit in defending their ideas, already showing a very appreciable maturity».
The “Youth Parliament” is an initiative of the Assembly of the Republic, in partnership with the Ministry of Education and the Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth, whose main objective is to encourage the interest of young people in civic and political participation.
In addition to the students, Custódio Moreno, regional director of the Algarve at the IPDJ, Teresa Santos, councilor of the Municipality of Faro, Alexandre Lima, regional delegate for Education in the Algarve, José Apolinário, president of CCDRAlgarve, and Luís Graça, deputy to the Assembly of the Republic, «who at the beginning of the session answered questions posed by the young deputies, about the attributions and functioning of the National Parliament".
Schools involved:
– Cândido Guerreiro Vocational School – CIPRL, Alte, Loulé
– João de Deus Secondary School, Faro
– Manuel Teixeira Gomes Secondary School, Portimão
– Drª Laura Ayres Secondary School, Quarteira, Loulé
– Júlio Dantas Secondary School, Lagos
– Secondary School Dr. Francisco Fernandes Lopes, Olhao
– Albufeira Secondary School
– Tomás Cabreira Group of Schools, Faro
– Loulé Secondary School
– Pinheiro and Rosa School Group, Faro
– Nobel International School Algarve, Lagoa
– Secondary School of Vila Real de Santo António
– Vilamoura International College
– Father António Martins de Oliveira Secondary School, Lagoa
– Elementary and Secondary School of Albufeira
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