l. PROBLEM Climate and environmental protection have been among the top priorities of young people in Europe for nearly a decade, as highlighted by the EU Youth Survey, where they consistently rank either first or second alongside the cost of living. These two issues are closely interlinked: unsustainable lifestyles exacerbate environmental degradation, while climate impacts in turn deepen economic and social insecurities. As a result, many young people have a growing anxiety about the climate and the future of the environment. This has been worsened by the recent violent actions of climate movements such as “LAST GENERATION” which not only caused damage to public spaces and stopped roads that affect people's everyday life, but also resulted in the imprisonment of the young climate activists involved. Therefore, youth have increasingly disengaged from climate actions. They have grown to perceive climate advocacy as a threat to their social life, mental well-being and even career prospects. In fact, they now choose to turn away from engaging in environment-related actions as they not only deem it dangerous, but also ineffective given the static climate realities they witness despite the relentless calls for action on decision-makers. Consequently, young people nowadays are living in a state of climate anguish, frustration, distrust and helplessness all at once. ll. SOLUTION As active youth workers, we have identified the need for an 8-day innovative and effective youth workers’ training course in environmental mediation and peaceful mechanisms for climate advocacy which can reintegrate youth in climate action and support them to regain confidence in peaceful solutions. We aim to relieve young people’s frustration by equipping them with skills for peaceful self-expression like non-violent communication, negotiation, design-thinking and problem-solving to empower them in their climate action journey. In that context, based on research, we found the methodology of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCED) as the most fitting to achieve our objectives because they adopt a non-formal education framework combined with experiential and participatory learning methods such as workshops, conflict-resolution simulations, study visits to best practices, applying tools for team-building, NVC, leadership, advocacy and creative problem-solving. lll.OBJECTIVES: In this regard, we envision the following objectives for our project: - Strengthen youth workers’ capacity to integrate climate justice into non-formal education, ensuring they can translate complex environmental issues into accessible and engaging learning experiences for young people. - Develop intercultural and cross-sectoral skills to equip youth workers for collaboration across diverse contexts, particularly within Euro-Mediterranean realities where climate vulnerabilities intersect with social inequalities. - Provide hands-on practice through the design, facilitation, and evaluation of climate justice activities, enabling youth workers to gain confidence and direct experience in engaging young people on urgent environmental challenges. - Introduce and embed innovative tools such as environmental mediation, participatory design methods, and youth-led advocacy practices into the youth work toolkit, moving beyond traditional awareness-raising to concrete problem-solving and action. - Empower youth workers to engage underrepresented groups (young people from rural and NEET backgrounds, as well as young women (18–30)) ensuring their voices, experiences, and ideas are at the center of climate justice dialogue and practice. - Facilitate cross-border knowledge-sharing and cooperation by connecting youth workers from project countries with peers from the Euro-Mediterranean region, creating a fertile exchange of approaches and perspectives on climate justice. - Explore interactive, experiential methods such as simulations, community mapping, and eco-social labs to counter youth disengagement and demonstrate the real-life relevance of climate justice. - Ensure sustainability by equipping youth workers with transferrable, scalable skills and practical resources that they can continue to integrate into daily practice, local community projects, and organizational strategies after the training. - Build an open-access online repository of climate justice tools, methods, and case studies, co-created by participants, to serve as a shared resource for ongoing innovation in youth work. - Showcase inspiring best practices and initiatives of youth-led and community-based climate action across partner countries, providing tangible examples that motivate replication, adaptation, and scalability. Once taught to young people, these tools will help them regain interest in climate actions which in turn will have a significant impact scope as our 32 participants will implement local follow-ups which will benefit over 100 young people locally.