<< Background >>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.The transnational partnership moves from a common grass-root background and agreed on the MAIN OBJECTIVE of empowering and strengthening each partner methodology and digital competences of their youth workers for tackling the climate changes with effective reach-out activities based on creative approaches. The consortium will implement a 24 months KA2 project in the field of youth with the main aim to improve the awareness for the climate changes and create interactive and digital resource for youth workers and young people which will support them in order to work on and improve the environment. Included in this project will be:- organizations from the partner countries operating on local and national level providing grass-root activities for young people- young people: Target group of the planned activities are young people aged up to 30. Priority will be given to young people which are: Motivated and interested in developing and working on improving the environment, young people with fewer opportunities, Young people enrolled in high schools in the project partners countries and involving young people from high schools and engaging the teachers in planning and implementing activities that will contribute to the fight with global warming.- youth workers who will motivate other young people to get included- staff from the schools- local relevant institutions and educational centers who will provide environmental activities where the young people can participateOur goal in this project is also to raise awareness of the possibilities for young people how to become more active. All the organizations in this project see this as an important thing and they have seen, that it doesn’t happen by itself. There are actions needed to make this happen in order to make a relevant change in the everyday routine of the youngsters.<< Objectives >>Objectives of the project:- 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<< Implementation >>The project is designed in the following activities: - 4 transnational meetings. On the meetings that will be held in each of the project countries, the relevant IO or LTTA will be planned in advance. In addition an evaluation of the past activities will be made in order to follow the progress of the project. On the kick off meeting, besides the plan for IO1, a project management strategy, financial aspects and plans for communication between partners will be made.- IO 1 Create and implement a research on the topic of engagement of young people in their local communities regarding the fight against global warming and connecting them with organizations or institutions that work in the region on the same topic: A research will be 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 the research is done, a mapping of organizations that offer services with environmental activities will be done, and a national report containing the information will be designed. A map is created connecting both the organizations 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.- IO2 Create a platform for young people to join in the cause of improving the environment: A platform that will publish the on-going initiatives on local level will be created where the young people can follow the activities in their local area where they can join. The young people will also be able to create their own initiative and promote it in order to get more people to join in their activities.- IO3 Public Awareness Campaign: The Public Awareness Campaign will be happening in each of the project partners countries. The Campaign will be ongoing online on the social medias and offline with events in each of the countries. The offline campaign will reach: youth organizations, young people and young people which are in the mainstream and special schools. During the campaign, the IO1 and IO2 will be promoted and will help to raise the awareness with the wider population in protecting the environment and get a wider audience to join.- LTTA: The training aims to get youth workers and professionals working in the schools to train them on the content from IO 1 and IO 2. These participants will have to be active in the follow up phase which is the local activities each of the partners will implement. - Local activities (from the management costs): Each of the project partner organizations are responsible to work with a group of young people and teachers which will be involved in the project activities and together to implement activities for young people to join in improving the environment. To create local initiatives in order to motive more young people to join in the climate change issues.- Multiplier events one in each of the project partners countries: the ME will be used to promote the IOs and the work the young people will do on local level. Invited on the ME will be youth workers, leaders of youth (work) organizations, professionals and policy makers active in the youth field of environment and especially linked to the specific topic of this project, teachers, educators, and representatives from municipalities, young people and with fewer opportunities, representatives of media to present them with the project outcomes. The objective is to spread the findings from IO1 and platform from IO2 to organizations who work with young people so that they can motivate and include the young people with and without disabilities in activities for bettering the environment.<< Results >>The partnership in this project expects the project to have a long-term impact in terms of engaging young people in getting involved in bettering their environment.EXPECTED RESULTS AND LONGER TERM BENEFITS- IO1 Research on youth workers' skills needs- IO2 digital platform for young people- IO3 Awareness raising campaigns 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.

"<< Background >>In a world where important steps have been taken in digitalization with the COVID-19 Pandemic, our lives continue to be fully integrated into the digital world under the name of ""New Normal"".We think that it is essential for NGOs,Many projects that should be realized with real mobility under normal conditions adapting to the new period with its application over the internet, which should be an example to the society.In addition, the recent legislative changes in many countries and in our country change the rules to which NGOs are subject and encourage the digital transformation of NGOs.In addition to the use of many resources, it is a necessity that digital applications replace existing systems that increase time and energy consumption.As TÜGVA, we want to carry out our project to continue all its administrative operations in digital ways, to increase the digitalization competencies of NGOs, and to create a roadmap for NGOs in the digitalization process.<< Objectives >>Thanks to our project, while promoting the digital transformation of NGOs by sharing the information, data and experiences they need to initiate the digitalization processes of NGOs who want to digitalize but cannot take steps in digitalization due to lack of knowledge and competence, and cannot find the ways to be followed; We want local, national and international digitalization processes to be initiated by all NGOs. With the digitalization of NGOs, NGOs will both adapt to current technology and conditions and save resources, time and energy.<< Implementation >>With the acceptance of our project, the opening meeting of our project will be held, and all the planning related to our project will be finalized and the activities of our project will be started. Within the scope of our project, academicians, youth workers, technicians, researchers and project coordinator who will be selected by criteria to be determined with our partners will be employed. At the same time, the representatives and project coordinators determined by each of our partners will organize meetings on the direction of our project on a regular basis and ensure that our project is carefully monitored. At the same time, administrative and financial reporting will be carried out both for the month ended and for the following month with monthly meetings. Within the scope of our project, an international meeting will be held to prepare and introduce the digital transformation curriculum of NGOs for NGOs who want to take steps towards digitalization with our partners but do not know which ways they want to follow, while web-based operational management system and mobile application operational management systems that will prevent the digitalization of NGOs will be designed and introduced with an international meeting. The digital transformation in our project, we aim to perform sufficient technical knowledge and skills but it's also about wanting a non-basic digitization project and representatives of NGOs and youth workers to gain skills that will arise as a result of the intellectual output of our software and mobile apps to use with representatives of NGOs and youth will be given training in digital skills training course for employees with digital transformation, digital skills development training programs in green and young adults within the scope of our project will be carried out. At the same time, interim evaluation and main evaluation meetings of our project will be held in our partner countries with international participation. in addition to obtaining technical skills and decencies, non-formal learning methods will also be used frequently considering the international atmosphere in our 24-months project.<< Results >>As a result of our project, a digital transformation curriculum will be created that will offer the methods and strategies to be followed in the digitalization processes for NGOs who do not know how to start the digitalization processes or how to manage the process they have started.At the same time, a web-based operational management system that will allow NGOs to carry out all their administrative operations digitally and will be designed by our expert team, and a mobile application operational management system that will reduce the digitalization of NGOs to smart phones will be created. With the emergence of all the intellectual outputs of our project and the software and mobile applications that provide digitalization, we expect NGOs to initiate or accelerate their digitalization processes, starting from our country, in order to adapt to the legislation changes that encourage the digitalization organizations that have changed recently. With the training programs to be carried out within the scope of our project, we want NGOs in need to gain basic skills in digitalization and to learn the software and mobile application that will be revealed through our project in a practical way. We are planning to expand our project with meetings where all the outputs of our project will be introduced and presented, and to ensure that our project reaches all its goals with international evaluation meetings. We think that the digitalization process will be completed quickly with the opportunities we provide for the digitalization of NGOs in our country in the short term, in Europe in the medium term and in the world in the long term."