-To improve the key competences of participants and youth workers to develop actions that contribute to promote environmental education and sustainability; -To develop higher quality youth activities and/or projects with young people, especially those with fewer opportunities, in the fields of social entrepreneurship and environmental education; To create new educational tools to strengthen sustainability and environmental awareness in young people who want to carry out their own initiatives, activities and/or projects; -To exchange experiences, good practices and methodologies on environmental education, sustainability and entrepreneurship in the youth field, between organisations and professionals from four European countries; To create an international network of organisations, active in the youth field, working to promote environmental education and sustainability applied to youth entrepreneurship, in order to promote cooperation and innovation between Programme Countries.
With percentages above 90%, young people claim to be concerned about the environment (UNEP, GlobeScan Survey and INE), but this fact is not reflected in environmentally responsible behaviour (Álvarez and Vega). Furthermore, many environmental education activities have focused exclusively on environmental or ecological issues, without promoting understanding of the causes of the problems, reflection, critical thinking, without encouraging the protagonism of the learner and his or her capacity for reflection-action. Young people must be educated and empowered to create and implement their own projects, activities and/or initiatives based on sustainability and environmental awareness. This is why we request this project, responding to the following needs: -Young people are aware of the importance and impact of their actions on the environment; -Youth professionals are trained and have the necessary resources and tools to train young people and act as agents of change for environmental and sustainable development; -Young people take the lead and contribute, in the first person, to positive change in society.