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Mediterranean Youth versus Climate Crisis

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-IT03-KA205-018416
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for youth Funder Contribution: 56,175.5 EUR

Mediterranean Youth versus Climate Crisis

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"The organizations joint in the Mediterranean Youth versus Climate Crisis (MeYou project) believe that protest alone is not sufficient to address the climate change challenge. The Mediterranean basin is one of the hot spots of this global crisis: according to the priority of the ""European Youth Forum"", in which applicant and some partners of this project have members, we seek to empower young people as agents of their own sustainable future. In this perspective, the direct consequence - as NGOs, associations, movements working with and for young people - is to build, each doing their part, the new ""art of togetherness"" (cit. Alexander Langer). The objectives of the project are to raise awareness among young people and communities about climate crisis, to facilitate and encourage exchange of good ecological and nonviolent practice among NGOs, institutions and stakeholders, to support youth leaders in fighting climate crisis with nonviolent methods and to promote transnational youth-led initiative and nonviolent actions at European and regional level about climate issues. 14 participants from 7 organizations will become “Climate Ambassador” within their organizations, gaining useful skills to facilitate and encourage the exchange of good ecological and nonviolent practice among NGOs, institutions and stakeholders. At least 21 youth leaders and 7 volunteers, trained on climate issues and nonviolence, will connect and empower those who in the Mediterranean area are committed to the fight against climate crisis, making them capable to launch nonviolent campaign, to make them acquire personal and relationship skills. The young people reached by the activities will raise awareness about climate change, its causes and effects, enhancing their participation in local activities related to the aims of the project, designed with nonviolent method. Thanks to the realization of the transnational “How to build peace among humans” training meeting, it will be possible to implement multiplier events at local level, to implement and validate a replicable training model at various levels and in various contexts, to connect and empower the link between youth leaders of the Mediterranean area engaged in the fight against climate change, to enhance the use of nonviolence methods to address injustice among young people and organizations and to increase at local, Mediterranean and European level the support of organisations and stakeholders to youth leaders and youth workers in the field of sustainability. Three modules will be deepened: 1) Peace within (encouraging self-reflection and development of critical self-inquiry, mindfulness, empathy and compassion). 2) Peace with the nature (ecological sustainability, respect for other living creatures and climate disarmament as a requirement for stability and peace);3) Peace with others (social participation, advocacy and engagement in society, how to set a nonviolent campaign); These themes will be explore through talks by experts and practitioners, working groups, creative workshops, peer sharing, etc. using the great heritage in this field by Movimento Nonviolento. Methods will follow the principles of experiential learning and nonviolence and will be participatory and learner-centered. The project will include the exchange of good practices (internal and external), the establishment of a network at Mediterranean level to raise awareness and empower young voice against climate crisis, the training of youth leaders of each participant country on climate issues and nonviolence, the development of a Mediterranean youth-friendly web portal with all kinds of educational material and guides on climate themes and nonviolent actions, 1 training manual, translated in every language of the participant organizations, for workers in the field of youth and environment, youth leaders and volunteers on the use of nonviolence in addressing climate crisis and social injustice, the creation of a network at Mediterranean level to raise awareness and empower young voices against climate crisis to voice in the final conference in order to share the experiences in the European Youth Forum and other European level network, website and social pages of the project that link to the European web portal able to launch communication campaign. The added value of the Partner Country neighbouring the EU, NYC, among the variuous tasks ascribed, is being the official partner of Tirana Municipality in implementing the European Youth Capital 2022, and the Final & Sustainability Meeting will be held there. Through various programs, its cultural, social, political and economic life, as well as development programmes for young people, will rise in the year following the MeYou project. As the youth stakeholder who will coordinate this initiative in 2022, the partner has the potential to implement the MeYou campaing, ensuring a larger outreach of the project during the EYC 2022, and for years to come."

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