Activities of the project
“Empowering youth for facilitating ecological transition”
Mobility activities
Coordination and Follow-up Meetings
Coordination Meeting (O Porriño, Spain)
The project coordinator made a general presentation of the project, based on the content included in the application form. The project coordinator presented the activities planned for the first year of the project: activity 2 “Mapping and analysis of environmental...
Youth Workers Mobilities
“Environmental education as a tool for social change” (Cape Verde)
This activity’s content will be developed through a series of colloquia and workshops, where the youth workers will participate in the VI International Congress of Environmental Education for CPLP, event that gathers all the Portuguese countries around the world to...
“Identification of good practices & transfer of knowledge for enabling the ecological transition” (Lisboa, Portugal)
This mobility will combine training courses with experts in the format of workshops, including the study of successful cases, with practical work, where the youth workers will develop draft proposals based on real cases in their regions.
Youth Mobilities
“Green awareness: media tools for engagement and impact” (Mozambique)
This youth exchange is aimed to foster the taking-up of environmental awareness campaigns, by combining a critic analysis with a carefully planned media strategy. Throughout the mobility, youngsters will identify successful awareness campaigns and analyse its...
“You & the environment” (O Porriño, Spain)
This youth exchange is aimed to introduce youngsters to the work and knowledge previously developed on the first part of the project, specially what is related to community – individual impact over the environment and the good practices/challenges that can be...
Virtual Mobilities. Work Online
Work Online
Online work will be done developing learning materials and resources for young workers and youth, focusing on the learning methodology, OER materials to create (including videos) and the manual of good practices. Once the materials are developed, they will be collected on an online platform. This website will contain multimedia materials (e-learning), audiovisual products – videos and photographs that document the experiences of young people within the project – as well as creations and productions made by young workers and young people themselves.
Capacity building activities
“Mapping and analysis of environmental data”
The purpose of this activity is to carry out a mapping and analysis of the environmental state-of-the-art in each participating region.
Training and elaboration of environmental good practices manuals
This activity will be held at local level in each participating country. The purpose of this activity is to follow the first capacity building, identifying good practices to tackle the main environmental challenges spotted during the local and regional mapping and analysis.
Green Mentor Training
This activity will be held at local level in each participating country. It foresees sessions that will be focused on providing environmental education training for youth.
Green Awareness Campaigns
This activity comprises the final preparation of 4 awareness campaigns (one per country), both online and offline.
Seminars
Partners were in charge of organizing different seminars for different sectors of the
population to raise awareness of the main environmental issues and offer some solutions for
the future
Word Café
A Word café is an informal conversation where many people take part and discuss on
different topics, in this case, environment. Partners selected a group of young people to
discuss about environment and useful suggestions to improve their environmental actions.