One of the key goals set by the European Union was environmental protection. To this end, the European Green Deal was created - a European action plan aimed at combating climate change and environmental degradation, and promoting sustainable development. This initiative included both short-term and long-term plans. The short-term plan aimed for the EU to achieve the following goals by 2030: - reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% compared to 1990, - increasing resilience to climate change, - accelerating the transition to a circular economy, - reducing the environmental impact of production and consumption. The long-term plan aimed for the EU to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. However, the current political situation highlighted how much work still needed to be done to realize these goals. During the economic crisis, environmental protection took a back seat - conventional energy sources such as coal and gas returned to favor, partly because the EU did not have enough renewable energy sources, and they were not as widely available as the EU plans had anticipated. Achieving the EU's goals by 2050 became increasingly unrealistic, posing a global threat. The lack of cooperation among EU citizens also became increasingly problematic. In the current economic crisis, EU citizens were more concerned with securing food and heating their homes amid energy shortages and rising inflation, rather than focusing on pro-environmental actions. The EU thus needed to act effectively to ensure the current crisis did not devastate its ambitious sustainable development plans. The Union actively and directly operated within its competencies, especially legislative ones. However, legal regulations alone were not enough. Effective realization of the goals required societal engagement. To engage society, it was necessary to raise awareness - showing that actions were essential and crucial if we wanted to maintain even a part of the current living standard. Most residents of the European Union supported its environmental protection goals. However, awareness of effective tools for individual actions was still too low. The average European citizen understood what their country should do to meet climate goals, but less understood that they had influence and control over state actions and that their individual actions should form the basis of effective state ecological policy. Awareness of citizens' impact on the state was significantly lower among citizens of the former communist bloc due to numerous experiences of ineffective actions against the state apparatus, resulting in lower levels of democratic engagement and control over the government in these societies. Encouraging these societies to proactively shape local and global communities was necessary to raise awareness of individual influence and strengthen government control, crucial in democratic states. Here, young, active people came into play, who were highly aware of the worsening global situation, and whose knowledge significantly surpassed that of older generations, who intentionally or unintentionally ignored the problem. This was especially important for those from rural areas with limited access to many learning opportunities. Our project aimed to provide these young and active individuals from rural areas with: - access to non-formal education processes, equipping them with tools to educate their communities about their ecological agency, - opportunities to exchange experiences among participants and create mutual support methods or tools, - assistance in acquiring and developing soft and hard skills, - help in initiating actions to reduce the direct and indirect negative human impact on the natural environment, - inspiring them to take initiatives and influence their surrounding reality, - assistance in implementing and promoting ecological initiatives, - support for intergenerational dialogue.