We are the first generation that has been suffering, since childhood, the devastating consequences of climate emergencies. And we’re the last generation that can do something to change this scenario. As the plastics industry plans to double its gas and oil-based production over the next 20 years, we think that this growth is incompatible with achieving the EU’s goals, including those laid out in the Green Deal, binding climate targets to keep global warming under 1.5°C, and efforts to tackle plastic pollution. We are not responsible for the environmental catastrophes that are threatening life on our planet, caused or intensified by ambitious human activities that have triggered incalculable socioeconomic inequalities that are, paradoxically, the basis of our global economic system and we know that we have very little time to make this spacecraft called Planet Earth, or better, Blue Planet, continue to be a nice place to live. We know it’s time to work hard, to roll up our sleeves, because we don't have much time. Because we have no choice. Before applying this project, we investigated our partners and fellow youth workers' needs through a survey, and we identified the growing need for improving environmental literacy and enhancing the competencies that young people must acquire to live sustainably in their communities. We believed that as young European citizens, we had a responsibility to act: we had only a few years from then to prevent irreversible damage from Climate Change. Youth Against Plastic (YAP) was the answer to the growing tide of plastic pollution suffocating our oceans and rivers. We decided to apply with this project as we wanted to find, together with the youth workers of 11 different countries, a solution to the plastic pollution problem and help young people build a plastic-free future. In order to do this, we wanted young people with fewer opportunities to be our final target group because we thought that by assisting and enabling them to overcome their obstacles and boosting their resilience as well as that of the communities in which they lived, youth work could play a significant role in avoiding and preventing environmental disasters, such as plastic pollution. The specific objectives of the project are: - to determine shared values and best practices and use them for spreading awareness on the issues of plastic pollution and climate change; - to engage 36 youth workers and offer them the chance to learn and develop quality non-formal education methods; - to connect and empower participants in order to enable cooperation and networking among their countries; - to raise awareness about Erasmus+ and ESC programs and the ways to use them to implement our own projects and ideas; - to promote the inclusion and employability of marginalized young people with fewer opportunities, as well as to empower them with non-formal education content; - to develop sustainable follow-up actions targeting hard to reach young people that youth workers will implement in the after the training.