LOCAL brings young people, youth workers and representatives of different alpine municipalities together to learn from each other, experiment with sustainable lifestyles and initiate local projects. The project wants to empower young people to actively take part in political decision-making on a local level and to engage in communal life. Furthermore, LOCAL aims at promoting cooperation and knowledge transfer on youth participation across the municipal, regional and national boundaries. The project objectives are to gather good practices in youth participation, to exchange knowledge and experience and, inspired by this exchange, to jointly implement a concrete project in every municipality. In addition, young people will experiment with sustainable lifestyles. Challenges such as sustainable, low carbon nutrition and mobility will be tested by the participants for a given time. They will exchange about their experiences between the participating municipalities. Three LOCAL municipal youth policy will be strengthened and young people will be motivated to get active and learn about sustainability in their daily life. Most importantly, young people will be able to implement their own project idea and exchange about it with youth from another country. The project will take 18 months and is scheduled to take part between summer 2018 and winter 2019.
Summary of completed project hast to be in the past form and please correct 16 instead of 18 months In the network of CIPRA International, we recognised the participation of young people in political and social life as an important part of sustainable development. With the project LOCAL (Low Carbon Alpine Lifestyles), we enabled the exchange of ideas and good practices between youngsters from the most and the least wealthy countries of the Alps. This gave them an insight into sustainable lifestyles and CO2-saving measures, which was the groundwork for starting their local projects and active participation in political decisions. While doing this, they have learned to express their opinions, seek compromises and find common solutions. LOCAL brought young people, youth workers and representatives of different alpine municipalities together to learn from each other, experiment with sustainable lifestyles and initiate local projects. Three LOCAL municipal youth groups were strengthened and young people were motivated to get active and learn about sustainability in their daily life. Most importantly, young people were able to implement their own project idea and exchange about it with youth from another countries. The project took 16 months to be completed (As is explained in the section Project Managment and Implementation).