By implementing this project, we aimed to involve 16-18-year-old students from Lithuania, Croatia and Greece with different interaction level at schools: less active students, Student Council members and the EPAS teams, who want to build a sense of responsibility for the environment. In harmony with the strategic needs of all three schools, we set three main objectives in the project: 1. To develop international cooperation among 3 EPA schools, raising awareness of EU initiatives in the European Green Course and contributing to Europe’s continent to become eco friendly continent; 2. To promote the leadership of young people encouraging their involvement in the civic and environmental engagement activities in each country and learning non formally; 3. To improve XXI st century competencies – communication, digitalization, leadership, problem solving, critical thinking, initiative and social skills – and apply them in creating the main project outputs and other results.
Alytus Jotvingiai Gymnasium has been the European Parliament Ambassador School since 2019 as well as the Ambassador of the STEM School Label project on the European and national levels. In 2022 the Lithuanian EPAS team invited two active EPA schools from Greece and Croatia to cooperate in the project "Go Europe Green with EPAS" as well as celebrate the 2022 - the year of European and Lithuanian Youth. The main need for the partnership was to get the international youth activated together taking part in the non-formal learning activities, developing network, integrating green practices into various aspects of the project and getting to know about the European Green Course. Creating "Ecological routes" was symbolically and practically chosen as an attractive innovation for young people to work on as well as a useful product for the wide society. The project was a composite and integral means of implementing horizontal and school education priorities on the European and national levels.