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Youth Climate Empowerment

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2021-1-DK01-KA220-VET-000025812
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices | Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training Funder Contribution: 161,090 EUR

Youth Climate Empowerment

Description

"<< Background >>We applied for this project because we believe it is important that educational institutions are at the forefront of the climate transition. In this way, the educational institutions also respect the UN Sustainability Development Goal 13 which stipulates: ""Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning"". The VET institutions and General Education are a vital part in this climate transition, because we educate tomorrow's citizens and one of the mayor challenges this generation has to deal with will be the climate crisis and knowledge about how to mitigate the consequences and find solutions. As many students today feel that the climate crisis feels insurmountable, this project should also give hope that it matters to do a difference. On a very small scale, this is what we want to address in this Erasmus+ project, but we will very much like to empower the youth to experience that they too can make changes, although on a small scale, but will, if more European schools coorporate, mean that these small changes will have a large effect. We also want to address that to work with climate issues can both be innovative and challenging, and this way, we also hope that we among educational institutions can show that we deal with present and future issues, which make VET more atractive. In this project, 10 students from five partner schools get the opportunity to work internationally with climate goals, solutions and campaigning, in this way, the students will also inspire each other with climate solutions from their own schools, local communities and countries. As this is a European project, apart from climate change, intercultural cooperation is at the centre of this project. The students will learn how the respective local communities deal with climate, but also how to negotiate and cooperate on climate goals, solutions and campaigns in English which will be both inspiring, fruitful and challenging and they will learn a lot about different cultures within the European community. . However, we stress in this Erasmus+ project that the students should not experience to work with climate as a burden, but instead find positive and different angles to address this issue with innovative solutions and campaigns to reach students and local citizens.<< Objectives >>The primary objective is that students should feel that it matters when they take action within the field of climate change, we will do this by letting the students work with and select specific climate goals. Another objective is that trying to find solutions regarding the climate crisis is not only a heavy path full of obstacles, but can also be a path where innovation, entrepreneurship and a positive approach may be the way forward in order not to sink into resignation. Moreover, the students will inspire other students and citizens through climate campaigning also carried out in this project and which they carry with them in their future lives. With this Erasmus+ project we also hope to inspire other schools to involve the students in the climate struggle, this we will do by making all material available on the website, but also inspire the teachers of the partner schools to use the teaching material in their different subjects and present our results at climate conferences for schools and the UN ActNow homepage for others to get inspired. Moreover, we of course hope that with the climate solutions the students come up with at school and local level, will be implemented, so they actually will change e.g. waste, shopping habits or energy consumption in the respective local communities. Finally, tith the students' cooperation with the schools' management, the students will also get knowledge about how a school works and through their cooperation with the local municipality, they will also gain knowlege about democratic processes and civic engagement.<< Implementation >>We will implement all the learning, teacher, training activities according to this application. Here the students will work with climate goals, solutions and campaigning. Furthermore, we will make a questionaire for the participants and the students of the school to assess the impact of the campaign. We will measure impact of campaign targeted at local citizens by evaluating likes or interest on social media. Moreover, we will implement a website with teaching material and results of learning, teacher, training activies and with newsletters of the activities. Finally, the solutions the students have worked on will be implemented at school and local community level if the solutions are feasible. In between learning, teaching, training acitivies, transnational meetings will be held as described earlier to arrange, plan and evaluate the training events.<< Results >>The primary outcome of this project is that the students work with solutions and campaigns and that these solutions and campaigns are targeted at students of the schools and local communities with the goal to be implemented if the solutions are feasible. This will be in close cooperation with the schools' managements and the local communities who will make use of the solutions. Another outcome is that the participating students will be succesful in their campaigning that they will inspire students and local citizens to think about how they may change their habits towards a more sustainable living, and again small changes also count. Finally as mentioned earlier. another outcome is that the students will gain knowledge about how to negotiate internationally with students from other countries and with other cultural values and traditions than your own. They may find out that they have many things in common with young people from other European countries, but certainly also will find out that people may do and think differently, but still you are able to achieve results."

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