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Youth for sustainable actions

2020-2-LV02-KA105-0032572020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: LV|EE|LT · Grant: €19,944
Civic engagement / responsible citizenshipEnergy and resourcesEnvironment and climate change

Objectives

The most important thing what we wanted to achieve by implementing this project was to attract the attention of the youngsters to the importance of environment issues. Environment issues and sustainability have become relevant in different contexts today - they are embedded in different policy guidelines, in corporate governance and development concepts, in daily habits etc. By implementing this project we wanted to contribute to the cooperation among NGOs in the Baltics, as well as to the exchange the good practices among youngsters from the Baltic countries. We wanted to promote the concept of sustainability among participants, so they would be more open to protecting the environment and to follow the principles of sustainable living. The green lifestyle has become a fashionable trend in nowadays among various groups of people, however, many aspects of the environment in today's society are rather unclear and people rarely have an idea of how much they affect the environment – by using transport, by doing recycling, due to consumption habits etc. There are many ways to minimize negative effects on environment and to conserve nature. We think, that people need to be aware of them and to do something about it. The first step would be to start with ourselves, followed by passing the information to those around you. Additionally, with this project we also wanted participants to get clear understanding about different aspects of environment issues, the role of social capital, importance of sustainable development and sustainable lifestyle. The aim of the project was to raise youngsters’ awareness about importance of environmental issues and sustainable living. In order to achieve the goal of our project, we set the following objectives: - exchange of information, knowledge and best practices on ways to protect the environment and to contribute to sustainability; - exchange of the best practices and creating new ideas on reducing the impact of human activities on environment; - promotion of youngsters’ awareness about sustainable lifestyle and mindset; - promotion of social capital through youth initiatives; - promotion of the Erasmus+ programme.

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