Go Green project is a 24 months project coordinated by YUPI organization in Portugal, in close partnership with Romania, Thailand and Vietnam for a total number of 200 young people and youth workers in the 4 countries involved from Europe and Asia. We want to raise capacity of our organizations to support young people who have activities or starting business which are environmentally and community friendly and re-use resources in the scope of circular economy. We want to strengthen the support in youth work through the development of methodologies and procedures of each organization to better integrate and accompany young people who want to start any activity (volunteering or business) in the environmental sector, by raising their employability and entrepreneur skills aligned with an ecological perspective and in a sustainable way.Our main goal is to create an international network of partners interested in creating a system of training of youth workers that reflects the needs of the involved organizations based on non formal education methodology development, through a training referential on the topic that will be disseminated to external partners. This international network aims at raising the capacity of our organizations and others working in the social sector to be more effective and supportive to their youngsters that are in need of integration in the labor market but have many limitations and concerns due to the environmental degradation of nowadays and their lack of knowledge on how to build an environmental and social fair business.Go Green! is supported by previous experiences of partner organizations, built on past capacity building experiences, and foster more quality, diversity and deeper impact on the capacity of the organizations and social impact in the community.
Raise capacity of organizations to support young people who run activities or start business which are environmentally and community friendly and re-use resources (circular economy). We also want to strengthen youth work through the development of methodologies to better support employability, entrepreneurship and volunteering in community by young people. A third objective is to raise awareness of NGO's for own ecological footprint by creating an audit tool that can help to improve our practice
The 4 partners of Go Green! have a solid cooperation from developing different projects together and due to own national networks. The partners identified common needs and motivations to develop capacity building of the staff and local networks in the environmental sustainability knowledge area, by recognizing and valuing youth initiatives in the sector and creating a tool to assess internally the organizations concerning the Environmental footprint and raising awareness in other NGO's
<< Background >> The 4 partners of Go Green! have a solid cooperation from developing different projects together and due to own national networks. The partners identified common needs and motivations to develop capacity building of the staff and local networks in the environmental sustainability knowledge area, by recognizing and valuing youth initiatives in the sector and creating a tool to assess internally the organizations concerning the Environmental footprint and raising awareness in other NGO's << Objectives >> Raise capacity of organizations to support young people who run activities or start business which are environmentally and community friendly and re-use resources (circular economy). We also want to strengthen youth work through the development of methodologies to better support employability, entrepreneurship and volunteering in community by young people. A third objective is to raise awareness of NGO's for own ecological footprint by creating an audit tool that can help to improve our practice << Implementation >> Go Green! is a project composed by a plan of capacity building activities that aim at developing 2 Intellectual outputs (Audit tool for Environmental Sustainability in NGO sector and a Guide of Education for Sustainability) which were developed through national research (questionnaires, adaptation, translation, focus groups and interviews) and enriched by different mobility activities (8 jobshadowing, 4 volunteers, 33 participants in TC) and disseminated in 5 conferences for over 300 people. << Results >> Organizations (staff) is trained on how to run academic research to validate and raise recognition of youth work (through the process of validation on the audit tool) which strengthens their position in national networks and brings added-value to the youth work sector; a new tool for assessing environmental footprint in 4 countries for NGO's (validated to each country) in projectgogreen.eu; compilations of best practices recognizing youth-led initiatives in environmental sector to inspire others