This project bridged two program objectives—to support awareness raising on the environmental and climate goals and to take up innovative practices in a digital era. The project's main aim was to contribute to the inclusive transition to sustainable living by empowering the youth work sector across the globe to raise awareness on environmental issues through personal examples and digital tools—the language of young people. The specific objectives were: 1. To build the capacity of the consortium and foster networking and cooperation of the youth work sector on a global level in terms of environmentally-responsible and sustainable living education; 2. To provide participating youth workers with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for sustainable living education and support their professionalization in the area; 3. To build an enabling environment for creating together best practices on how youth workers could be ambassadors of sustainable living themselves;
At the moment, when project was applied and now the climate change is still alarming and no longer underestimated: nearly 75% of EU citizens now see climate change as a very serious problem, shows Eurobarometer 2019. At the tail of the problem recognition, the impact of Greta’s movement cannot be underestimated – while the students are already on the streets at “Fridays for future” – we believe it is time for the youth work sector to step together in the race for the Sustainable Green Planet and invest into insetting responsible and sustainable living mindset into non-formal education sector. Being anchor in implementing Union’s Youth policies and having the opportunity to reach young people directly through Erasmus+, youth work must adapt itself to respond loudly to the global challenges in order to be the example young people can refer to. At the same time, taking into account the rapidly changing world, teaching sustainable living became indivisible from digitalization: GoGreen - Youth Navigator bridged two program objectives—to support awareness-raising on the environmental and climate goals and to take up innovative practices in a digital era.