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E+ for Environment

2019-1-EL02-KA105-0047502019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: EL|RO|CZ|LT|ES|LV|RS · Grant: €21,642
Rural development and urbanisationYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Environment and climate change

Objectives

With this youth exchange, we would like to mark the start of a debate on issues such as environmental education, sustainable development and active citizenship, and stimulate the creativity and self-interest of participants that are essential for achieving community well-being as well as for employability. "Ε+ for Environment" aims to gather 36 young people from 7 different countries - Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Czech Republic, Spain and Serbia and through the usage of non formal education methods and tools to: - raise the environmental awareness of the participants and the local community by informing them about environmental education and sustainable development through an information campaign that will be held by the participants in Paranesti during the mobility of the project but also in all participating countries after the mobility implementation, in order to enhance the dissemination of the results of the project -to enable young people, through the use of non-formal education tools and methods, to discover whether they are influencing themselves the environment and unknowingly contribute to environmental problems (waste footprints) - promote and contribute to the recognition of non-formal education as a basic tool for the development of young people's skills, which are indispensable for both personal and professional development - to strengthen and promote the active participation of young people belonging to socially vulnerable groups due to economic and social obstacles and therefore being characterised as young people with fewer opportunities, through their participation in this project - to support - with actions like this - the implementation of activities carried out in rural areas in an effort to support their societies and especially the young people who choose to live there - to promote the concept of active citizenship and the concept of European citizenship, particularly in the regions of rural areas , characterized by smaller societies where the impact of activation of young people is magnified - to promote intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding and cooperation with other young people with different cultural backgrounds

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