This project is designed as an experiential, inclusive, and participatory learning environment that equips young people with the competences, confidence, and motivation to lead environmental and social change. Grounded in non-formal education methods, it combines hands-on activities, peer-to-peer facilitation, and structured reflection. Activities such as tree planting, agroforestry design, biodiversity mapping, and collective facilitation provide space for participants to learn by doing while strengthening their role as active citizens. More than learners, participants will become co-creators of the project—co-leading workshops, facilitating reflection circles, and designing local action plans. This participatory model fosters youth empowerment, agency, and self-efficacy, while ensuring that young people with fewer opportunities are given equal access to leadership roles. Project Objectives 1. Cultivating Youth Leadership and Facilitation Skills Participants will gain practical experience in youth facilitation, communication, teamwork, and leadership by taking active roles in workshops, Open Day events, and local initiatives. At least 70% of participants will co-lead an activity, ensuring that youth work practice is based on peer learning and inclusion. - This objective will be achieved through peer-to-peer facilitation, learning by doing, and reflection methods (daily debriefs, feedback rounds), which allow participants to practice leadership in a safe and supportive environment. 2. Driving Youth-Led Environmental Action Through local action plans—such as reforestation efforts or agroforestry projects—participants will transfer their learning to their home communities. These initiatives strengthen sustainability and community cohesion while reinforcing democratic participation at local, national, and European levels. - The main methods here are project-based learning (designing and implementing their own action plans) and community engagement (Open Days, local dissemination), both of which are core to participatory youth work. 3. Expanding Environmental Awareness and Agroforestry Knowledge Interactive learning on agroforestry systems, biodiversity, and regenerative practices will build ecological literacy and systems thinking competences. The project explicitly links the resilience of ecosystems with the resilience of democratic societies—echoing the European Green Deal and EU Youth Goal 10 (Sustainable Green Europe). - This learning is anchored in experiential education (field visits, practical workshops), complemented by storytelling and visual mapping to strengthen understanding and support diverse learning styles. 4. Strengthening Intercultural Exchange and Youth Inclusion Bringing together youth from diverse cultural, social, and economic backgrounds promotes intercultural competence, empathy, and inclusion. By co-creating and living together, participants strengthen their capacity for tolerance and solidarity, key skills for youth work and for building resilient communities across Europe - This is achieved through intercultural dialogue sessions, non-formal games and simulations, and collective living arrangements (sharing meals, reflection groups), which build empathy and break down stereotypes. Competences Developed Participants will develop: • Personal & Social: self-confidence, empathy, adaptability, resilience • Civic: active citizenship, democratic participation, inclusion competences • Learning to Learn: reflection, critical thinking, problem-solving • Intercultural: communication across cultures, tolerance, solidarity • Environmental & Digital: ecological literacy, agroforestry knowledge, digital storytelling for dissemination • Youth Work Practice: facilitation, teamwork, participatory methods, project design Long-Term Impact The project’s impact extends beyond its duration. Participants will emerge as facilitators, multipliers, and young leaders in Erasmus+ projects, local NGOs, and community initiatives. By organizing peer workshops, online campaigns, and sustainable community projects, they will act as multipliers, ensuring long-term visibility and transfer of results. By combining ecological and social regeneration, the project empowers young people to lead with sustainability, democracy, and inclusion at the heart of their actions. It strengthens the capacity of youth workers and organizations to apply innovative participatory and inclusive methods in future activities. Through this holistic approach, the project directly supports the EU Youth Strategy (Youth Goals 3, 4, and 10), contributes to the European Green Deal, and aligns with the New European Bauhaus vision of creating a greener, more inclusive Europe. It ensures that young people become champions of change, bridging environmental sustainability with democratic values and building a resilient, united Europe.