Climate change, global warming, environmental pollution and issues related to sustainability are the biggest challenges of the 21th century. More than ever, we need to concentrate on the issue of environmental awareness and we should use all resources in our hands. The Play for Sustainable Environment project aims to develop innovative youth work methods to raise awareness on the importance of environmental sustainability through sport-based non-formal education. Our initiative targets youth leaders, youth workers, NGO staff , educators and young people in order to develop their understanding, skills and competences to link sport-based education to environmental sustainability. The innovative approach of the project allows youth organizations from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin-America to exchange good practices, knowledge and methodology in the field of sport-based non-formal education, thus also strengthening capacities for increased levels of global action. Innovative practices to promote environmental awareness through outdoor activities and education through sport based games will be developed, tested and disseminated through the 18 months duration of the project. Main objectives:• Create a transnational platform for sharing, exchanging and transferring knowledge, information and good practices in relation to sport-based non-formal education and youth-led environmental sustainability; • Develop and test innovative sport-based, non-formal educational methods to raise awareness on environmental challenges;• Up-skill youth leaders, educators, youth workers, NGO staff to increase knowledge, skills and competences in order to promote environmental awareness through outdoor activities; • Provide non-formal learning and mobility opportunities for European, African, Latin-American and Asian young people (including those with fewer opportunities) to develop their skills and competences in relation to environmental sustainability; • Build capacity of participating youth organizations and promote their internationalization strategies. The objectives of the project will be reached by implementing the following interrelated and interconnected activities: Kick-Off Meeting, Transnational Mapping Activity, Training Course, Job Shadowing, Youth Exchange, Local Dissemination and Closing Seminar. From these activities tangible outcomes will be generated such as: educational manual, good practice database, video-interviews and articles. These outcomes, together with the website and social media channel, will be useful for dissemination activities and for enhancing the sustainability of the project and to reaching out to potential target groups.

Plastic pollution permeates every aspect of our lives, but also highlights the importance of environmental care, protection and conservation. The fact that plastic pollution has detrimental health, social and economic effects compels us to think innovatively about how to address it. United Nation (2018) highlighted that -with today’s youth population (15-24 years) at 1.2 billion and further growth anticipated for the near future, investments in youth must be channelled to enable them to adopt sustainable methods for environmental protection. UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has said 'In 1950, the world’s population of 2.5 billion produced 1.5 million tons of plastic; in 2016, a global population of more than 7 billion people produced over 300 million tons of plastic – with severe consequences for the environment. Plastic pollution is destroying our lives, wildlife and our ecosystem. United Nations estimated that world’s population will reach 10 billion by 2050 relatively, it is expected the plastic production will triple. Recently, young people started a movement for the protection of the environment and their future. They need support from governments, NGOs and from all stakeholders. We all need to work together to equip youth and communities to reduce plastic pollution. AIMs -Imparting awareness and a sense of environmental stewardship among the youth of today and future generations (by engage, support and empower youth to take sustainable environmental actions and promote them) through Strategic Partnership and share good practices-to build/increase the capacity of NGOs to take action regarding reducing plastic waste in the partner countries by encouraging local communities to recycle and re-use. -to equip youth workers with new sustainable environmental skills in order to empower more young peopleOBJECTIVESOrganising activities to address the education needs of young people in order to empower & encourage them to recycle, reuse plastic;To sharing good practices, learning outcomes and non-formal learning methodologies in the field of youth.To create sense of ownership & awareness of the urgent environmental issues among youth by organising, seminars, workshops, polls and creating online platforms to reach wider audiences which will also provide guidance on how to reduce/stop single plastic use and promote recycling;Organise regular upcycling activities within the local communities to show how they can reuse plastic materials for various different purposes. Involving young people with interactive and fun activities that will not only improve the environment they live in but also increase their analytical, decision-making, social by taking part in community activities;Provide tools to participants to uncover their true potentials, and to inspire them to become multipliers in their communities; To foster cooperation and exchange knowledge, experiences with partner organisations by promoting recycling, upcycling to reduce plastic going to the oceans and the landfill.Establish strong connections between the organizations and youth workers and between the youth workers;Train NGOs/youth workers with new sustainable development skills to disseminate results to create and establish related projects for other young people.Promote EU values, social inclusion, diversity, intercultural dialogue, tolerance and respect to each other to the nature among young people by organising intercultural activities.Learn and share expertise of local/national initiatives related to waste management, recycling facilities, environmental friendly plastic reduction and alternative solutions by Environmental protection seminar and workshops.

Climate change is here. As its impact intensifies over time, it is today's children and young people who will face the worst effects.Young people around the world have begun to fight back. Take Greta Thunberg, for example. In 2018, she sparked a global youth movement demanding greater action from governments to combat climate change. Now millions of people are marching to show their support. Young people everywhere are using their skills to speak out for climate action.Climate change is increasingly recognized as an emerging crisis that requires radical and immediate action. The changes needed range from the local to the global: from the daily activities of individuals to economic and social development and new forms of global governanceOur project is about environmental issues. Although it is a familiar topic, future generations will constantly need to develop their own environmental awareness. Through this international project, young people and youth workers can discover how the environment is one of the great global challenges of our time, and how solutions can and should be found together with other countries. Furthermore, they will become aware of the fact that while sustainable living is a global effort, efforts must also be made at the local level. Therefore, environmental education, concrete sustainable action and environmental awareness are the main concerns of the project.Our project aims to bring together different non-profit youth organisations in Europe, working on environmental issues, in order to improve international cooperation, increase knowledge about nature, raise awareness about environmental problems and strengthen the participation of young people in environmental activities and decisions.Objectives:- To provide youth organisations with tools and methods to involve young people and promote active citizenship and care for the environment.- To train youth workers with efficient tools and resources to involve young people in environmental education in the community.- Empower and support young people to participate in decision making related to climate change- Promote the commitment of young people to the principles of environmental conservation- Encourage local actions by organizations and youth for the protection of the environment and the rational use of the Earth's resources.- To share and discuss ideas, practices and methods with other European organisations on environmental protection- Support NGOs in raising awareness of environmental and climate change issuesTarget group:- Youth associations, exchanging good practices with other European associations in environmental protection- Youth worker - by identifying tools and resources that are effective in working with local youth, providing solutions, training and other activities to increase youth participation in environmental education.- Local youth - by involving them in activities aimed at helping and protecting the environment.Activities: - E-book containing good practices on activities, workshops, resources, campaigns to fight climate change and raise awareness at local level in different countries.- Theoretical-practical training course (ICT tools, development of activities, leadership) for the youth workers of the organizations on how to support, teach and guide the local youth to create activities at local level to raise awareness of the community on the project's issues.- Workshop at local level, aimed at young people in which they will learn ICT tools, and how to develop an environmental activity from 0 to raise awareness in the communities. Each partner will organize in their country 1 workshop, in total we will have (5).- Local activities focused on raising awareness and motivating the community about the importance of environmental protection and climate change. Each country will organize one youth-led activity, in total we will have (5)- Creation of a website integrated with Social Networks containing a MATERIALS DATABASE TRANSLATED into the national languages of all partners to promote and encourage wide exploitation and dissemination.- 4 transnational meetings of the project.

There is an urgent need to save our oceans/marine animals as plastic is destroying wildlife & our global ecosystem. Consortium came together because;- Plastic waste is destroying our environments, polluting air, water, destroying our lands and seas;- There will be more plastic in the ocean than fish;- There is a significant health risk caused by plastic usage, and also fish/seafood contains plastic ends up in food chain;- Many marine animals and sea birds consume pieces of plastic as they confuse with food, and suffer a painful death;-Plastic also destroying our economies and resources;Failure to act will have catastrophic global effects. Consortium will share education of methodologies for recycling plastic waste employed in partner UE countries and implement increase the capacity partner in Myanmar as well as all partner countries. With organized activities, NGOs, youth workers, youth will increase their capacities for active civic involvement on the matter concerning their communities especially regarding environmental protection by reducing plastic waste production.These activities will empower and encourage young people and their communities to be actively involved in recycling, reusing, upcycling for reduction of plastic waste and to decrease the waste ends up in our landfill & the ocean in their countries. Trans-continental cooperation and network set-up will help reach wider audiences and it will increase the impact and lifetime of the project. AIMs-to build/increase the capacity of NGOs, Institution and stakeholders to take action regarding reducing plastic waste in the partner countries by encouraging local communities to recycle and re-use.-to increase awareness of the critical environmental issues caused by plastic & microplastics (as they end up in our seas and oceans and effectively ending up in the our food chain.With well designed implementation, dissemination, follow up and sustainability action plans capacity of partners will increase, youth workers will have new competences to empower youth to be more involved reducing plastic waste ends up in our oceans/seas and landfill.

„Each of us can have a positive impact in the world if we understand, experience, and share healthy, balanced, and sustainable ways of living.“The aim of COOLIVING project was to share experiences and to promote healthy habits, explain the impor¬tance of daily physical activity, healthy eating, the importance of nutrition, food consumption, and production.To promote diversity, intercultural dialogue, common values of freedom, tolerance, and respect of human rights among the participants. OBJECTIVES: - Increase the capacity of partner organizations to address the healthcare education needs of young people in their communities; - To improve quality of life by introducing communities to healthy eating, regular exercise with interactive and fun activities that will improve their analytical, decision-making, social and language skills; - Share experience about local initiatives related to organic food consumption and it's health benefits, as well as organic and biodynamic farming and air trade, including practical examples - To uncover the participant's true potentials, and to inspire them to take active roles as multipliers in their communities; - To establish strong connections between the organizations and youth workers and between the youth workers, - To promote diversity, intercultural dialogue, common values of freedom, tolerance, and respect of human rights among the participants; The partnership was established on already personal meetings and working experience together, as well as aiming to connect more and less experienced NGOs‘ to give them chance to learn from each other. Various associated partners will be involved on local levels.Partners:International Educational Centre GEMS, CZ, Porto di Terra Italy, Aventura Marao Clube Associao, Portugal, Youth Innovation Ltd, UK Main activities: 3 project meetings C1 Bended mobility of young people C2 Bended mobility of young people Local activities for the local community – 12 local activities The project activities were developed based on 4 main pillars: 1) Healthy HabitsTo improve quality of life by introducing communities to healthy eating, regular exercise with interactive and fun activities that will improve their analytical, decision-making, social, and language skills.2) Ecological FarmingShare experience about local initiatives related to organic food consumption and its health benefits, as well as organic and biodynamic farming and fair trade, including practical examples;3) CollaborationTo establish strong connections between the organizations and youth workers and between the youth worker4) Intercultural DialogueTo promote diversity, intercultural dialogue, common values of freedom, tolerance, and respect of human rights among the participants. Target group: Our main target groups were our and other NGOs in order to enhance our competencies in sustainable health. With the share of good practices, we can provide a better quality of work and activities.Direct participants of blended mobilities were young people 16 – 30.Local communities in each partner country was addressed with local activities. The project results 1)Available and open platform on the project web page, where all partners can contribute with their news, experience, methodology, videos, useful links,… 2)Strong network of all partner organizations and associated stakeholders 3)All partners and participants have new theoretical and practical experience related to healthy eating, regular exercise with interactive and fun activities, as well as outdoor activities 4)All partners and participants have new theoretical and practical experience related to local initiatives with organic food consumption and it's health benefits, as well as organic and biodynamic farming and fair trade 5)2 mobility for young people were organized to support them to become multipliers in their communities 6) 12 local activities open for the public were organized 7)Future cooperation after the project completion was designed