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GREENERASMUS

2023-1-MT01-KA153-YOU-0001308752023Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: MT|IE|FR|GE|IT|HU · Grant: €27,463
Environment and climate changeInclusion of marginalised young peopleEuropean identity and values

Objectives

Since the year 2023 is the "European Year of Skills," 30 youth workers from Italy, Georgia, France, Ireland, Hungary and Malta decided to equip themselves with and exchange good practices in the field of non-formal education to combat Climate Change. This idea came as a result of collaborations between these youth workers and it is in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 & Erasmus+ 2021-2027 program objectives: Climate Change. The group wanted this bilateral Erasmus+ project to answer these questions: how to incorporate Environmentally friendly practices in daily youth work to combat climate? How to create greener activities for the youths they worked with? How to implement EU Climate Law using non-formal education methods? How to learn from each other to create eco-fun-filled activities that youth enjoy to reduce the risk of climate change locally? How to teach youths and young children their global responsibilities in line with UN SDGs? how to use YouthPass competencies and Erasmus priority: Climate change to engage youths to be more sustainable in their local community? And how to teach these eco-friendly practices to youths with fewer opportunities: Asylum seekers, Ukrainian refugees, and other migrant groups? How to use youth work to link with UN SGDs for a greener EU? Our project "GreenErasmus+" Objectives: -To build partnerships for greener youth work across Europe in other to implement the UN Sustainable Developmental Goals: 13 -To exchange good Environmentally friendly practices and further build organizational capacities. -To share and co-create eco-friendly practices and booklets for youthwork -To increase the visibility of Erasmus+ programs in the battle for a Greener EU & help youth workers develop their eco-competencies and be certified with a YouthPass. -To bring more young people including those with fewer opportunities (those with financial difficulties, Ukrainian refugees, -The project fitted the needs of all participating organizations as all expressed interest in this bilateral project. GreenErasmus was in line with all participating organizations' strategic plans for the next three years. -GreenErasmus provided an opportunity for participants to share their experience, knowledge, and understanding of EU Policies to combat Climate Change about UN SDGs and information today in line with Active participation in the network of Erasmus organizations (Erasmus+ 2021-2027 program objectives and Priorities: Climate Change). -GreenErasmus enabled participating organizations to network, and gain new sustainable environmental-friendly practices in youth work for a Greener Europe. - GreenErasmus met the needs of participating organizations to use this opportunity to equip their youth workers and young people with environmentally friendly skills to celebrate 2023: "European Year of the Skills". -The project fitted the needs of the Irish organisation to partner in their first-ever Erasmus+ project and attract more youths including those with fewer opportunities such as Ukrainian Refugees to the field of Erasmus+ for social inclusion opportunities. -The project fitted the need for building partnerships amongst all four organizations for greener youth work across Europe. The project met the needs of Italian organizations that liked to incorporate the United Nations Sustainable Developmental Goals: 13 and sustainable and environmental-friendly practices in their daily nonformal youth work activities. The organizations’ youth workers were equipped in creating a platform to connect, engage and empower young migrants as requested by the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 and the EU Action plan on integration and inclusion 2021-2027 by teaching them in a non-formal educational method about sustainable and environmental-friendly practices from the booklet that were designed by the participants. During the bilateral project, the participants, such as youth workers, volunteers, youth coaches, and youth leaders’ team increase their knowledge with sustainable and environmental-friendly practices and more especially received opportunities to travel abroad to Malta and Ireland as well to gain YouthPass competencies on best practice on environmental-friendly practices. This bilateral project provided our confidence in designing a booklet as a manual that we shared with local educational institutions, youth organisations and NGOs on sustainable and environmental-friendly practices for a Greener Malta and Europe using creative non-formal education that engaged youngsters. The project had intercultural elements to it, this bilateral project enabled participants in both mobilities to learn from each others culture, how they preserved food, how they recycled, reduced waste, and reused, and how each country reduced food waste. They developed non-formal skills about Environmentally Friendly Practices and evidence-based creative activities for the youths.

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