Climate change consequences are a serious concern for the welfare of current and future generations. Human action, like pollution and deforestation, are the key reasons for global warming and adverse climate changes. The consortium agrees that there is an urgent need for all of us individually and collectively, to become more aware of our environmental responsibilities and to find ways to climate change adaption and mitigation. Youth leaders/workers needs to raise capacities to organize quality international green youth projects, including digital skills, but also involve actively youth and citizens in ways of fighting against climate change in their respective communities.Our consortium agreed that when talking with young people about environment, green skills, youth workers/trainers have to start from inflicting some habits of green lifestyle while informing them on environmental elements, then proceed to issues like green economy, green jobs and green entrepreneurship. Non formal learning methods, such as an interactive digital map, will help in informing and promoting a nature responsible behavior of youth by providing interesting and useful information in a practical way. Green skills training of youth workers is crucial to lead other young people toward green lifestyle and jobs, which reduces the environmental impact of enterprises/economic sectors and help to avoid generation of waste and pollution. International youth exchanges are a great source of learning and personal development for youth, with a great potential for generating local impact and multiplying effect, using, among other things, digital tools. Green jobs in emerging economies/developing countries, such as Albania include opportunities for youth managers, scientists and technicians, but also can benefit a broad cross-section of the population which need it the most: youth, women, farmers, rural populations and families living in poverty. Green economy is more equitable and inclusive of all the people and countries and also a response against unemployment of young people. In the project framework, we will educate youth workers on green skills and jobs and use an interactive digital map to spread the project impact to youth and citizens at local level. We will engage at least 80 youth on exchange activities with other peers from Europe, as well as disseminate the project findings in a large-scale event. The digital tool (environmental map) is the innovation that the project will bring to the partners’ organizations and communities. It will contain information on environmental hot-spots, projects conducted by NGOs and local government, green jobs opportunities, call for projects as well as will provide a space for citizens/youth feedback on the implemented and coming projects, serving also as a tool for civic awareness and action.
Objective of this project was that participants will have possibility not only to gain knowledge on green skills in different topics closely related to youth they work, but will have opportunity to practice and at the same time disseminate the results of their participation on these trainings to their colleagues in their own organizations, and with that overall capacity building of youth organizations and their youth workers will have much greater impact.
This project purpose was to educate youth workers on green skills and jobs; by using both informal education methods, together with new innovative digital methods, such as digital maps, in order to spread the project impact to youth. Green skills training of youth workers is crucial to lead other young people toward green lifestyle and jobs, as well as being able to raise awareness through digital and green skills technique, helping to visualize in open source their impact in the environment.
<< Background >> This project purpose was to educate youth workers on green skills and jobs; by using both informal education methods, together with new innovative digital methods, such as digital maps, in order to spread the project impact to youth. Green skills training of youth workers is crucial to lead other young people toward green lifestyle and jobs, as well as being able to raise awareness through digital and green skills technique, helping to visualize in open source their impact in the environment. << Objectives >> Objective of this project was that participants will have possibility not only to gain knowledge on green skills in different topics closely related to youth they work, but will have opportunity to practice and at the same time disseminate the results of their participation on these trainings to their colleagues in their own organizations, and with that overall capacity building of youth organizations and their youth workers will have much greater impact. << Implementation >> Overall the project had 5 main activities: Kick-off meeting with partners and experts; Training for organizing and leading international activities “Green & Digital Skills for a low carbon future’”; 2 Youth exchanges on “Digital Green skills for Climate change adaption and mitigation strategies from youth” and a Large scale youth final event. Important part of the project implementation was the creation & launch of the online digital map and the research for identification of environmental. << Results >> Main result of the project are: participants with considerably improved competences and motivation for creating future green international youth activities; more than 10 new international youth projects and partnerships created; green business plans concepts developed by youth; research on environmental hot-spots and a digital map developed by each partner’ organizations as a tool for civil society projects on environmental hot-spots and community recognition, communication and awareness.