The Build YOU(TH) Future exchange, a follow-up of the "Build your Future³" experience, which was carried out in Germany in 2019, links the themes previously discussed (labour, environment, European citizenship) and aiming to broaden young people's reflection on the culture of sustainability, a concept developed by Unesco in the past years. Unesco stated how education for sustainable development should be understood in a broader sense, as education, training, information and awareness-raising all together: "it ranges from school education to information campaigns, from vocational training to leisure activities, from messages fostered by the media to the ones generated by the artistic and cultural worlds. It encompasses all the inputs that come from society and contribute to its values and culture. The "culture of sustainability" is a culture based on a perspective of sustainable development from which all the people of the planet, present and future, can benefit, and where social safeguards, such as the fight against poverty, human rights, health, integrate with the needs of conservation of natural resources and ecosystems and find mutual support". In recent years, the issue of sustainability has been increasingly central to political discourse and has become particularly relevant for new generations. Climate change has prompted young people to join environmental movements such as Fridays for Future. For young people, who join these events in increasing numbers, however, sustainability is basically an environmental concept. According to the IARD research institute (http://www.istitutoiard.org/wpcontent/uploads/2018/12/Indagine-Adolescenti-2018_sintesi-risultati.pdf), which involved young people between 14 and 19 years of age, it was found that only 23.7% of the sample, less than one in four people, are aware that sustainability embraces other dimensions of living together. The Build YOU(TH) Future project has contributed to the global promotion and development of environmental, economic and social environmental, economic and social issues related to the concept of sustainability. It has highlighted, among young people, the sensitive interconnections that exist in a global context between consumerism, mass production, economy, society, human rights and respect for the environment. The proposed non-formal and practical activities will promote individual and group reflection on the concept of The proposed non-formal and practical activities will promote individual and group reflection on the concept of sustainability, promoting the importance of their self-affirmation, their role and the impact they can generate in society, acting as a multiplier of their own. in society, acting as multipliers of positive and sustainable change.
The Build YOU(TH) Future exchange, a follow-up of the "Build your Future³" experience, which was carried out in Germany in 2019, links the themes previously discussed (labour, environment, European citizenship) and aiming to broaden young people's reflection on the culture of sustainability, a concept developed by Unesco in the past years. Unesco stated how education for sustainable development should be understood in a broader sense, as education, training, information and awareness-raising all together: "it ranges from school education to information campaigns, from vocational training to leisure activities, from messages fostered by the media to the ones generated by the artistic and cultural worlds. It encompasses all the inputs that come from society and contribute to its values and culture. The "culture of sustainability" is a culture based on a perspective of sustainable development from which all the people of the planet, present and future, can benefit, and where social safeguards, such as the fight against poverty, human rights, health, integrate with the needs of conservation of natural resources and ecosystems and find mutual support". In recent years, the issue of sustainability has been increasingly central to political discourse and has become particularly relevant for new generations. Climate change has prompted young people to join environmental movements such as Fridays for Future. For young people, who join these events in increasing numbers, however, sustainability is basically an environmental concept. According to the IARD research institute (http://www.istitutoiard.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Indagine-Adolescenti-2018_sintesi-risultati.pdf), which involved young people between 14 and 19 years of age, it was found that only 23.7% of the sample, less than one in four people, are aware that sustainability embraces other dimensions of living together. Build YOU(TH) Future project is, therefore, an initiative that aims to promote and globally develop the environmental, economic and social issues inherent to the concept of sustainability among youngsters. It aims to highlight the sensitive global interconnections between consumerism, mass production, economy, society, human rights and environmental respect. The proposed non-formal and practical activities will promote individual and group reflection on the concept of sustainability, promoting the importance of their self assessment, of their role and the impact they can generate in society, acting as multipliers of positive and sustainable change.