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Generation SDG

2025-1-MT01-KA153-YOU-0002989762025Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: MT|LT|PT|ES|LV|EL · Grant: €18,834
Quality and innovation of youth workCommunity developmentNew learning and teaching methods and approaches

Objectives

Human beings are responsible for a number of crises which threaten the very future of life on earth. For centuries, we have treated the planet as if its natural resources were limitless and as if we could spoil them, use them and then discard them. We have spilt billions of litres of oil into the seas, cleared millions of acres of rainforest, mined deep underground, producing toxic slag heaps, stripped the natural minerals from the soil through industrial farming methods, and filled the atmosphere with dangerous levels of carbon dioxide, leading to potential climate breakdown. Education plays a crucial role in addressing these challenges. Future generations will face the escalating consequences of climate change and other global issues, which will not be limited to less developed regions. Europe is already experiencing more frequent and extreme weather events, a trend that is expected to intensify in the coming years. Therefore, it is essential to equip young people with the knowledge and skills to adopt sustainable lifestyles and actively contribute to developing solutions that benefit the entire region. Moreover, sustainability is not only about addressing environmental threats, it is also about ensuring that everyone is able to enjoy the full set of human rights, in a way which does not jeopardise the rights of human beings in the future. These rights should include social and economic, civil and political, cultural and environmental rights. In other words, sustainability demands a quality of life for all which not only meets physical needs, but also meets social and cultural needs, and which is distributed equitably. It is now accepted that sustainable development demands action across at least three different dimensions: environmental protection, social inclusion and economic development. (T-Kit 13 Sustainability and youth work). For this reason, it is vital to raise awareness about the recently adopted 17 SDGs and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development among youth, build a platform for discussion, and create the conditions for active engagement. It is incredibly important to address those challenges in Europe because SDG progress in Europe has stalled since 2020. Even before the pandemic hit, progress in the EU was too slow to achieve all of the SDGs by 2030 (Europe Sustainable Development Report 2023/2024). This project is a practical tool designed primarily for youth workers and educators to introduce the topic of sustainability to young people in a non-formal setting. the aim of the project is – to provide the critical knowledge to youth workers on SDGs with the necessary knowledge and experience how to run activities using Design thinking methodology. By doing this we have the aim: to develop young people’s knowledge of environmental and social issues at local and global level; promote understanding of key concepts and principles related to sustainability among young people; encourage youth’s active participation in order to promote sustainability, including at the personal, local or global scale; strengthen values relevant to sustainability, for example: empathy, equality, solidarity, responsibility, concern for future generations etc. The objectives of the project: O1: To promote Education for sustainable education among youth O2: To equip youth workers with innovative tool - Design Thinking - to be applied in non-formal education work with young people to explore Sustainable development goals.

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