The main aim of the "Don’t worry BEE happy" project was to building capacity of partners organisations to work transnationally and across sectors in terms of environmental education, green skills development and inclusions of marginalised youth social groups, among 3 partners during 12 months of the project. The project is focused on inclusion to international, European cooperation bottom- up NGO and local informal groups (like Kolping Family “One World”, SEC Parasol, informal rural group Kolping Sajan), which haven’t had such cooperation yet, then to identified new, more effective youth education tools and best practices which connect environmental and climate education, future green skills with social inclusions. When implementing the project, we wanted to: make the staff of partner organizations more aware of the benefits of small-scale international cooperation, establish new contacts and cooperation relationships, develop new knowledge and green skills, develop new digital educational materials. The aim of the project and the results have been achieved.
The project responded to the needs related to the development of international cooperation of partner organizations and the involvement of small local communities from rural areas or groups at risk of social exclusion in international projects, such Youth Center Izaaka 5 SEP Parasol. The project responded to the need to recognize good educational practices in the field of environmental education of young people that combine environmental initiatives with social inclusion, the project also responded to the psychological needs of young people, which is a particularly vulnerable group exposed to the effects of COVID-10, such as isolation, loneliness, insecurity- involved in integration, local youth activities for the protection of bees, joint cleaning of greenery, planting or building bee houses, overcomes the negative social effects of the pandemic, especially in young people.