<< 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.