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Climate Change Literacy for Youth Workers

2024-1-NL02-KA153-YOU-0002362722024Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: NL|FR|TR|LV|EL|RO · Grant: €55,260.16
Environment and climate changeQuality and innovation of youth work

Objectives

The most important achievements planned to be achieved by implementation of this project was promotion of climate change literacy among participating youth workers. Further on, this will have a continuos effect to raising awareness about climate change issues and to promote ideas to reverse climate change through integration of climate change literacy in youth work. We focused on these aspects because of the the situation we noticed during our activities and youth work, that information about climate change among the youth workers and youngsters is limited to a certain extent and there are a lot of misinterpration prevalent, and we noticed a need for improvements in this particular area. Thus we decided upon the idea of the project and we set up the plan to equip youth workers from participating countries with essential knowledge about climate change and its various aspects, to train them and prepare to be ready to explain climate change issues for youngsters, thus, accordingly, raising their awareness about the problem. With such approach we planned to attract youngsters’ attention to climate change impact on their local communities, what could become a motivation for them to contribute to reversing the climate change. The aim of the project was improve youth worker’s literacy in climate change issues through non-formal learning methods to improve transfer of knowledge with yougsters through youth work. Objectives of the project were: 1. To equip participants with essential knowledge about the climate change issues through non-formal education activities; 2. To equip participants with knowledge and tools to distinguishing climate change facts from climate change myths; 3. To share good practice from participating organizations regarding dealing with climate change issues in youth work; 4. To equip youth workers with tools to incorporate climate change issues in their activities; 5. To elaborate manual about essential climate change issues suitable for youth work; 6. To promote Erasmus+ programme and Youthpass as a tool for reflection.

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