The premise of the project is the awareness that protecting the environment and conserving the resources of our planet represent a challenge that can no longer be avoided: today, the world is radically different choices that are different from those made in the past, far from the current production model.As is known, islands are particularly affected by environmental degradation and climate change, due to a more fragile ecosystem and geographical barriers that often lead to conditions of particular socio-economic vulnerability. For the island communities, therefore, "sustainability" and "resilience" are essential characteristics to combat the degradation of their territory and consequently depopulation, youth emigration, and the transformation of the territories into "tourism colonies" with important social consequences and environmental.In these contexts, we therefore consider the promotion of an environmental education that is configured as a continuous process of learning ways of living with a rapidly evolving nature due to climatic and economic factors to be particularly important.In addition, the lack of theoretical knowledge and practical experience of many youth organizations and operators with reference to the environmental education sector and the inadequacy of the most common approaches in this field limits the impact of their interventions.To increase the quality and impact of their projects on the environment and the communities in which they are integrated, organizations and operators active in the youth sector need continuous theoretical and practical updates in the field of environmental protection, which is in itself rapidly evolving.The project aims to improve the skills of partner organizations, their staff and youth and environmental operators active on the islands and in particular:• will strengthen the general knowledge and theoretical and practical skills of operators on environmental and sustainable development issues;• provide them with study bases to understand the specific context of the island and its weaknesses;• will indicate environmental monitoring strategies aimed at understanding the transformations of the territory and the critical issues;• will experiment with non-formal education methodologies useful for involving young people;• will increase the capacity of organizations to carry out actions and initiatives, the quality of the proposed activities, the impact on the territory and on the community, in the direction of greater sensitivity, information and aware behavior;• will identify practical tools to be applied in individual contexts in order to act autonomously and to be able to direct local policies towards environmental protection issues.• increase the capacity of organizations to collaborate with partners on an intercontinental level with reference to common theories and practices.
- increase the skills of YWs' on NFE methods applicable to environmental issues- provide research tools to understand the specific island context- improve the quality of YWs' activities in working with young people with fewer opportunities - indicate environmental monitoring strategies to understand the transformations of theterritory- share good practices in the field of youth cooperation- stimulate the long-term involvement of beneficiaries - extend knowledge and skills to young people
The main objective of this project is to improve the competences of the partner organisations, their staff and youth workers active on the islands to provide a set of theoretical and practical tools to develop effective strategies for environmental education aimed at young people and closely related to the specificity of the islands as a climate change-sensitive environment. The project significantly improved the capacities to implement actions with an impact on the territory and the community.
<< Background >> The main objective of this project is to improve the competences of the partner organisations, their staff and youth workers active on the islands to provide a set of theoretical and practical tools to develop effective strategies for environmental education aimed at young people and closely related to the specificity of the islands as a climate change-sensitive environment. The project significantly improved the capacities to implement actions with an impact on the territory and the community. << Objectives >> - increase the skills of YWs' on NFE methods applicable to environmental issues- provide research tools to understand the specific island context- improve the quality of YWs' activities in working with young people with fewer opportunities - indicate environmental monitoring strategies to understand the transformations of theterritory- share good practices in the field of youth cooperation- stimulate the long-term involvement of beneficiaries - extend knowledge and skills to young people << Implementation >> The project structure maintained the planned activities, which followed a closely related course:- Kick-off meeting with coordinators and experts - Sant'Antioco, IT- Research and local activities in all realities- Training course for Youth Workers - Veli Iz, HR- Practice phase, research and local activities- Training Course for Youth Workers - Santo Antao, CV- Practice phase, research and local activities- Evaluation meeting with coordinators and youth workers - Pemba, TZ << Results >> - a network of organizations competent and active in islands of the world- 2 Training modules developed by 8 partners- 134 between local initiatives, activities, seminars and workshops realized in 8 countries, with 5725 direct beneficiaries involved and with strong impact- 22900 estimated indirect beneficiaries- a publication realized by youth workers- an e-learning online platform