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We wish you a peaceful journey with MOVE – Mobility of Volunteering? Eco-friendly!

2020-2-DE04-KA105-0198622020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: DE|MK|BE|ES|RU|RS|BG|FI|UA|FR|AL|AT|PL|EL|SI|XK|IL|TR · Grant: €39,990.46
Transport and mobilityYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Environment and climate change

Objectives

International peace, voluntary and youth work lives from the getting together and cultural exchange of people from different regions and backgrounds. Trainings, seminars and camps for exchange form the basis for the peace work of SCI and other international voluntary organisations. SCI and its partner networks implement around 1000 international youth camps a year. Many of our projects work directly on ecological issues. Through the “Climate for Peace Campaign” we have managed to show the connection of climate and peace work in many ways. However, we still face the dilemma that our mobility projects come with a high need for traveling and transportation. In times of intensification of the global climate crisis and discourses around it, this project addresses the various problems that come with air travelling – CO2 emissions and global warming, resource use and related conflicts, social inequalities (e.g. access to transport, working conditions in the aviation sector, impacts on health), etc. During two international activites, we intended to study the embeddedness of global mobility in a broader global economy in order to debate on how much and what kind of international mobility within peace and voluntary work is inclusively accessible and necessary considering its negative side effects. By raising awareness for the social and ecological consequences of mobility choices and thinking about new innovative ways for peace and volunteering projects, we intended to develop ideas on how mobility in an international context can be made more sustainable in the social and ecological dimension, taking also experience from the COVID-19 travel restrictions into account. By spreading the outcomes of this process across the network of international peace and youth work, we intended to create structures for enhanced sustainability in our projects. The objectives of the project were the following: - Increase awareness among youth workers about the impacts of mobility on basic values (human/social rights, healthy environment, solidarity) and of the link between (global) mobility and climate change and political/economic/societal responses, - Provide youth workers with the tools and abilities to raise sustainability of our projects and of projects from our partner organisations, and promote innovative ways of sustainable mobility, e.g. by considering different means of transportation or running NFE workshops, - Develop ideas for innovative, inclusive and climate-friendly volunteering and peace work projects, - Develop travel guidelines to make the activities of the hosting and partner organisations as well as the international peace network more sustainable, - Create a toolkit for voluntary work including guidelines to reduce carbon emissions and other climate impacts, non-formal education (NFE) methods addressing voluntary work mobility and its impacts, and ideas for other ways of climate friendly volunteer activities and international meetings.

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