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Climate Hope

2019-3-PL01-KA105-0777752019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: PL|ES|SK|TR|IT|BG|MK|RO|IE · Grant: €26,669
Environment and climate changeCivic engagement / responsible citizenshipYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

By organising the Climate Hope Training Course we aimed at answering direct needs within our partnership and broader recognised trends within youth work and youth in general. We aimed at answering our common needs to understand climate change better, to develop refreshing attitudes and to learn how to implement successful actions together with youth that answer our current crisis. The Training Course ​combined different ways to answer climate change offering a holistic approach of knowledge, attitudes and skills and engaging more and more young people in actions. Taking action formed an important part in what we wanted to achieve as well since we collected information in our network about "Climate Depression" among youth. We wanted to achieve change together with youth where many did not see hope for change before. With Climate Hope we wanted to implement a holistic approach towards climate change by focusing on 3 levels/dimensions: KNOWLEDGE: -to expand the knowledge of participants and the youth they work with regarding climate change, based on scientific facts (objective 1). ATTITUDES: -to change attitudes towards climate change to see it not just as a topic connected to humans but to the whole planet (objective 2). We wanted to reestablish a relationship between people and nature, which supported taking proper actions. A new attitude and a holistic approach toward climate change and the challenges we are facing today directly translates into change in participants' daily work with youth: they are more aware, direct, honest and open, they further develop skills like empathy, listening, communication and teamwork. SKILLS: -to develop specific skills which can contribute to a positive impact on climate change (objective 3). To make it easier for participants to follow and more attractive to share later with youth, we matched each part of the training with one part of the body and one patron. Knowledge was represented by the image of the brain and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a scientist from India. He is both a landmark scientist and a social innovator, popularising among others through his TEDx talk not only scientific knowledge of climate change but also an active attitude by underlining that individual actions matter. Attitude is represented by the image of heart and Charles Eisenstein, a public speaker and writer from the US. He proposes a New Story of climate change, concentrated on the planet as a whole and not just our human point of view. He shows climate change as a unique opportunity to rethink and redesign our relation to ourselves, to other people and nature. Skills are represented by the image of hands and Greta Thunberg, a climate activist from Sweden. During her TEDx talk and many other speeches, she underlines the need for action and she is the living proof that actions of young people can indeed bring a real change. Choosing the patrons we also cared about the balance between gender, age and place of origin (Global North versus Global South).

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