This Erasmus+ project "Young Europeans for Sustainability" in a partnership of schools from France, Estonia, Poland, Croatia, Italy and Spain aims at contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals, involving the young generations of our countries, future active citizens of the EU and the world. Our main objective is to promote civic engagement and participation of today's youth – tomorrow's decision makers - by promoting the contribution for achieving the 17 SDGs. The other objective is to enable our youth to play an active and visible part for the community and the environment on local, European and world-wide levels. The visible results include: - leaflets, posters, theatrical performances and videos promoting the 17 SDGs - practical knowledge workshops (eco-friendly menu and hygiene products, recycling and re-use) - events organized for youth with fewer opportunities in our communities - photo exhibitions promoting the need for collaborating for the 17 SDGs - fashion show promoting second hand shopping - charity concert to raise money for students with educational special needs - posters promoting a "landscape design project", urban designs and the Economy for the Common Good - fair trade and eco-friendly markets - donation campaigns - international students' conference - Hands On Activity for Earth - nominating ambassadors of 17 SDGs + awareness campaigns Our main methodology focuses on interaction, collaboration, team-work, inclusion and project-based learning. The project contains LTTAs in each of the 6 partner countries, each mobility focusing on 3 specific SDGs. The goals were distributed between the schools based on their profiles, strengths and the local opportunities and needs of their communities. All partner schools will work in collaboration with local organizations involved in the specific goals they are responsible for, including institutions and charities, as well as educational, social, environmental or cultural organizations implementing sustainable development in their agenda. The main target groups are students and teachers of the 6 partner schools, involving as many students (age group: 16-19) as possible from different sections making it available to all the volunteers, and some of the project activities are open to all the school community (exhibition, concert, photo competition). There will be at least 100 students and 5 teachers involved from each school. The other target groups are local communities - kindergartens, elementary and basic schools, secondary schools, day centers for youth with fewer opportunities and day care centers and senior homes for old or disabled people - which can benefit several project activities carried out, including the institutions mentioned before or by offering them support and help ensured by the means and partnership of this project. The project contributes to the development of all the 6 partner schools: it promotes inclusion, European citizenship and responsibility - important key words in our countries' and schools' curriculums. The project helps to overcome the 6 schools' challenges or to keep working for our main goals, as interdisciplinary approach, teaching social skills and promoting collaboration between students and teachers with different backgrounds and profiles. The 6 schools will join the UNESCO Associated Schools Network and The Green Schools National Network.
The Erasmus+ project "YES - Young Europeans for Sustainability" was carried out in partnership with high schools in Croatia, Spain, Estonia, France, Italy and Poland and aimed to contribute to the objectives of sustainable development, by involving the young generations of our countries, future active citizens of the European Union and the world. Our main objective has been to promote civic engagement and participation of today's youth and tomorrow's decision-makers by promoting contribution to the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The other objective has been to enable our young people to play an active and visible role for the community and the environment at local, European and global levels. The project contained learning, teaching and training activities in each of the six partner countries, with each mobility focusing on three specific sustainable development goals. The objectives were distributed among the high schools according to their profiles, their strengths as well as the local possibilities and needs of their communities. All partner high schools worked in collaboration with local organizations involved in the specific objectives for which they were responsible, including institutions and charities, as well as educational, social, environmental or cultural organizations who put sustainable development on their agenda. The main target groups were students and teachers from the six partner high schools, involving as many students as possible aged 16 to 19, according to criteria specific to each school. Some of the project activities were open to all educational communities. The other target groups were local communities - kindergartens, nursery and elementary schools, colleges, day centers for disadvantaged young people or even daycares and retirement homes for the elderly or disabled - who could benefit from several project activities carried out, involving the institutions mentioned above or offering them the support and assistance provided by the partnership of this project. The first year of our project was strongly impacted by the health crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular the closures of schools and the rules of physical distancing making certain activities initially planned more difficult. We therefore conducted most of this first year virtually, sharing our results on the Twinspace platform. The one-year extension of our project subsequently allowed us to carry it out as we had initially planned. Although some of the specific goals had to be revised, we nevertheless managed to achieve the vast majority of them as we had planned. The project contributed to the development of the 6 partner high schools: it promoted inclusion, European citizenship and responsibility, important concepts in the school programs of our countries and our establishments. The project also helped us achieve more global school goals such as the interdisciplinary approach, teaching social skills and promoting collaboration between students and teachers from different backgrounds and profiles. Our main methodology was focused on interaction, collaboration, teamwork, inclusion and project-based learning.