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Practical Sustainability Learning for Youth

2021-1-DK01-KA210-YOU-0000310362021Small-scale partnerships in youthfinalized
Countries: DK|IT · Grant: €0
Environment and climate changeGreen skillsDigital content, technologies and practices

Objectives

The main objective of the partnership was to raise awareness on the topic of environmental sustainability. It was also of utmost importance to shift the focus from environmental challenges to solutions, as well as bring attention towards the ongoing ecological and environmental initiatives in different countries and ways of replicating them. The partners drew the participants' attention that those who act are rarely people who are different from themselves - they are not politicians or movie stars, but enthusiasts like the participants who want to make a change, no matter where they live. The partners paid attention to involving more young people in the sustainable development action (including those with fewer opportunities) as well as increasing the target group's knowledge concerning practical solutions to environmental issues.

Background

The partners Meridian Learning Center and Accademia IRSEI applied for this project in pursuit of raising awareness about the ongoing projects working with the achievement of sustainable development goals both locally and globally. In the times of bad news avalanching on the modern youth and causing permanent anxiety, it is important to highlight the good news, positive solutions and examples that can be followed no matter where you are from. The partners wanted to create an educational non-formal learning module that could be universally used by both youth workers in their curriculum and youth likewise (as a self-study version). It was the ambition of the small-scale partnership to create an interactive digital product about practical sustainable development that could be used across the whole European dimension and contribute to more people, no matter their backgrounds and limitations, could become a part of a global and local sustainability process and contribute to positive global change driven not by fear and angst, but by solutions and development.

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