Project „ECO-lution“

Project Title: ECO-lution
Project Acronym: ECO
Project total Duration (Months): 24
Project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union

The overall European context is gradually recovering in terms of youth engagement and participation of youngsters in social and community life according to latest official data but still a lot of youngsters (if not the most) in all the 4 involved countries are not active, especially the ones with a difficult background. Our project wants to enter into the grass-root dimension in which the 4 partners daily operate, highlighting the high schoolers and including social inequities still affecting vulnerable target groups.

– To support the young people to nurture and take care of their environment

– To raise awareness in the climate change issues with young people

– To include and motivate young people with disabilities and with fewer opportunities to take part in the activities about the environment

– To contribute to social inclusion by working in mixed groups with young people with and without disabilities

– To give methods and resources to the youth workers and teachers to work with young people in supporting them in joining the fight against climate change

– To provide easier access to the young people to take active part in the change

– To make a long term impact and habits in the young people’s lives to better their environment

– IO1 Research on youth workers’ skills needs

– IO2 digital platform for young people

– Awareness raising activities in all countries on environmental issues

– Training event for youth workers who will later motivate and engage more young people with and without disabilities in climate change activities

– 4 multiplier events for disseminating project results and innovation

– Social disadvantage reduced.

– Engaged youth and motivated young people

– Sustainable platform that young people will use after the finishing of the project and will continue the contribution to the climate changes.

Result 1: Research on the topic of engagement of young people in their local communities regarding the fight against global warming

Our first intellectual output is a research report which will examine the levels of young people’s participation in the fight against climate change – and any barriers they face; the number of organizations who are active in the field of environment and the activities they offer for young people. Research is made in the high schools in all of the partner countries. The focus of the research is to find out how much the young students are involved and informed about the question of global warming in all of the partner countries. After this research is done, a mapping of organizations that offer services with environmental activities is done, we present a national report containing the information about the findings. A map is created connecting both the organization that provide such services be promoted to the high schools where the young people could become active. Additionally, a general report containing the similarities and differences of all of the partner country findings will be created. The participating organizations have found through working with partners that organizations do not feel confident in their ability to include youngster especially young people with disabilities in their activities. The key innovative aspect of this output is that it will generate original research which can be used to tackle this inclusion gap and will provide information on the current opportunities for both the young people and the organizations which would want to mobilize them.

This research explores the experiences of the organizations in four countries (Lithuania, Italy, North Macedonia and Turkey).

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The objectives of the research are:

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– To find out how much the young students are involved and informed about the question of global warming in all of the partner countries

– to find organizations that offer services with environmental activities

– To provide useful information to organizations as well as young students with and without disabilities where they can join in activities regarding their environmentResult 1: Research on the topic of engagement of young people in their local communities regarding the fight against global warming

Our first intellectual output is a research report which will examine the levels of young people’s participation in the fight against climate change – and any barriers they face; the number of organizations who are active in the field of environment and the activities they offer for young people. Research is made in the high schools in all of the partner countries. The focus of the research is to find out how much the young students are involved and informed about the question of global warming in all of the partner countries. After this research is done, a mapping of organizations that offer services with environmental activities is done, we present a national report containing the information about the findings. A map is created connecting both the organization that provide such services be promoted to the high schools where the young people could become active. Additionally, a general report containing the similarities and differences of all of the partner country findings will be created. The participating organizations have found through working with partners that organizations do not feel confident in their ability to include youngster especially young people with disabilities in their activities. The key innovative aspect of this output is that it will generate original research which can be used to tackle this inclusion gap and will provide information on the current opportunities for both the young people and the organizations which would want to mobilize them.

This research explores the experiences of the organizations in four countries (Lithuania, Italy, North Macedonia and Turkey).

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The objectives of the research are:

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– To find out how much the young students are involved and informed about the question of global warming in all of the partner countries

– to find organizations that offer services with environmental activities

– To provide useful information to organizations as well as young students with and without disabilities where they can join in activities regarding their environment

Result 2: Platform

“Result 2” aims to create a platform where young people can contribute to improving the environment. A platform was created to publicise initiatives at local level.
Young people could keep track of activities taking place in their local area, which they could join. Young people can also create their own initiatives and promote them so that more people can join them.

Each of the organisations used the information gathered during the survey to find out which organisations or schools offer activities on environmental issues for young people with and non-disabled people. The result is a platform that improves communication between young people when they share the same goal.

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You can find the platform by clicking HERE.