The public voting is available on the public media portal LSM.lv until July 28 at midnight.
The winners will be announced in Līvāni, the previous Youth Capital, on August 12 during the Youth Opportunities Festival "Kopums".
The aim of the competition "Latvian Youth Capital 2025" is to promote youth work in local governments, to strengthen cooperation between local governments in the field of youth, to exchange good practices and experience, and to continue the established traditions in youth work.
Jelgava was selected as the first Latvian Youth Capital in 2016, followed by Liepāja in 2017 and Madona in 2018. In 2019, for the first time, the title went to a combination of two municipalities - Ikšķile and Olaine, while in 2020, Ventspils won the Youth Capital title.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, no Youth Capital was selected in 2021 and 2022, but an online vote was held as part of the "Best in Youth Work" competition, where Rēzekne (2021) and Jūrmala (2022) were named the Municipality for Young People. In 2023, the title went to the municipality of Bauska, while the municipality of Līvāni, where a wide range of activities have been organized so far and will continue until the end of the year, was recognized as the Latvian Youth Capital for 2024.
