Little YETI (youth eco-tourism initiative) aims to support young people in their commitment to share and value Europe in a more sustainable and civic-minded way than before the COVID crisis:These young people carry out their own tourism projects to promote European heritage, by proposing :- an inclusive added value, while respecting the social and economic environment in which their initiatives are implemented- citizen engagement and activism affirmed through strong communication between young people, strengthening their European citizenship - high environmental added value by encouraging environmentally friendly economic development For 3 years, Little YETI offers1/ the identification of initiatives of young Europeans in the field of ecotourism (20) in Southern Europe, Balkans, Western Europe, Scandinavia. A digital guide of good practices is produced through reports constructed by young people. It proposes portraits, reports, presentation of sites, eco-tourist dimension of the projects and their economic model.2 /Based on an online consultation and the good practice guide, the partners are building a toolbox to support young people's initiatives. It proposes tools in terms of- Knowledge of the environment, and measuring the impact of recreational activities on the environment- Knowledge of the challenges of enhancing intangible heritage and the inclusion of inhabitants in the tourist offer- Technical tools for economic odre and adapted economic models- Tools for measuring indicators related to the environmental and sustainable dimension of projects- Use of digital tools to promote initiatives and knowledge of communication networksThis toolkit is accessible to young people, and to adults who support the approaches of these young people, actors of youth. They are people working in the sectors of tourism, environment, creative industries and cultural heritage enhancement, and in the support to entrepreneurship and the creation of activity for young people.3 / Training programme for youth actors in the eco-tourism sector. The partners mobilise youth actors and experts in the field of tourism and environment (IR and Desfimed), Valorisation of intangible heritage (FR/ Laba), Support for youth initiative and entrepreneurship (MT, RO, SE).They are building 4 online training programmes, which they are experimenting during 2 training sessions (C).4/ The partners carry out 5 dissemination events highlighting 5 tourist routes carried out on their territory. During these events, they present the productions made during the project to political decision-makers, young people, inhabitants, youth actors, tourism and environment professionals. They then organise five debates bringing together young people, youth actors and political decision-makers and collect the exchanges developed during these debates, which they record in their communication tools.Little YETI brings together 6 complementary partners (tourism, environment, European cultural heritage and youth) and geographically spread throughout Europe.YETI becomes a tool for mediation between young people and European policy makers, by proposing new citizen models of valorisation of European heritage and by proposing models of public actions based on successful initiatives of young European citizens. YETI mobilises 180 youth actors, who produce tools that will be consulted by 18,000 people (young people and youth actors) at the end of the project.

"<< Background >>Quentin: An ""invisible"" young person? That's me! At 27 I am nothing... no future... I went to university because my teachers and my parents told me: ""If you study well, you'll get a good training that will bring you a good job. And I've been looking for a job for the last three years that would allow me to leave my parents' house. Mohamed: An ""invisible""? That's me for five years! I dropped out of secondary school in the third year because they wanted to send me to a mechanic's CAP when I wanted to be a baker. Today, I'm 21 years old and the Local Missions want to impose solutions on me that I don't like. I can't see the end of my ""galley"", but I can say that I know what I don't want to be: a cross in a box. We could multiply these examples ad infinitum, but what unites these ""invisible"" young people is their lack of status, which results in their invisibility in society, but also in the statistics...' Claire Bernot-Caboche, Research report 'invisibles' in France and Europe.The identification of the invisible is a public policy issue at the European level. It has worsened during the COVID period. The increase in the number of invisible people is one of the expected consequences of the COVID crisis. 23 of the 27 EU countries report rising youth unemployment, with very marked differences between states. Spain is by far the country most affected by unemployment among the under-25s, which reached 41% of young people in June 2020, 21% in France and 28% in Italy. Yet organisations have been working for years with these groups, such as the OIRD, based in the Molenbeek district of Brussels, which achieves excellent results when it develops projects based on the talents and know-how of young people. OIRD and its partners notice the interest of young people in environmental issues, their willingness, but also their difficulty to act. By working in the field of eco-health tourism, they succeed in mobilising young people where social services are powerless. Eco-tourism is defined as ""a form of responsible travel in natural areas that contributes to the protection of the environment and the well-being of local populations; Health tourism is understood as the set of activities that include leisure mobility with a health benefit as a goal or consequence. (Laws, 1996).Our project addresses the following challenges:- Challenge for rural and urban youth to regain control of their lives by developing their own professional project in their living area.- Challenge for rural areas to fight against desertification and ageing of the population. The need is twofold: to promote business opportunities for young people to keep them in the area and to attract people who contribute to the local economy.- The challenge of improving the resilience of rural businesses: Farms are increasingly diversified business entities and tourism is emerging as a major opportunity, especially in times of recession, when consumers are reducing their spending and their ecological footprint to take holidays closer to home.- Challenges for the tourism sector: the competitiveness of the tourism sector is closely linked to its sustainability, as the quality of tourist destinations is strongly influenced by their natural and cultural environment and their integration into a local community.Faced with the worrying signals sent by climate change, the COVID crisis and other millennium challenges, young people are getting involved in green projects, linked to themes that are dear to them: sport, street culture (street food, street art...)<< Objectives >>The eco-health tourism market is growing rapidly and promises particularly innovative career opportunities for young people, who are more aware of environmental issues than their elders. Eco-health tourism increases the economic and social impact of individuals, while minimising the impact on the environment and local communities. In this sense, it allows invisible youth to project themselves into an emerging and promising sector cf Sustainability and Eco-health Tourism, Robert S. BristowWe have identified with our young audiences three areas of work that they invest in: sport, street food, street art and digital. Eco-tourism is largely absent from entrepreneurship education. Research conducted by the partners in their own countries confirms that 85% of vocational entrepreneurship education is focused on traditional business sectors. In this context, our project has a clear objective: to introduce new models of entrepreneurship education through actions in the field of eco-health tourism.Our targets are- Youth workers who will acquire and dispose of tools for informal training and development of youth initiatives in the field of eco-tourism- NEET and other young people, who will use eco-health tourism to develop their creative projects, initiatives and businesses.1) Ecotourism remains an emerging field in which young people are involved.2) Ecotourism entrepreneurs need different types of skills and experiences, which leads to the need to provide young people with formal and informal education programmes and to surround them with the necessary skills;3) There is a need to foster communication and cooperation between these young people in order to exchange best practices and encourage collaborative business ventures.The project responds to the EU's challenges for young people in the post-Cold War context: to travel differently, to learn differently and to rethink our relationship with our natural environment. GEHt offers young people the opportunity to take concrete action to propose new policies to decision makers. Each partner consolidates its specificity and expertise in a rapidly developing sector: eco-health tourism.Coompanion, OIRD, LABA, MMS are specialised in formal and informal training of young people.W8, Defismed, Materahub are specialised in eco-tourism and heritage enhancement. All of them are developing public/private cross-cutting projects to support young people. GEHT benefits from the active complementarity of the partners; they perpetuate their cooperation through the creation of the GEHT networkThe partners consolidate their position in the field of project support for young people. It strengthens the visibility of the network on a global scale and the partners develop their relations in Europe.To achieve this objective, GEHT will set up a global environment to foster the emergence of young entrepreneurial projects. It will include a set of communication tools, training and best practices.Specific objectives1. to structure and develop an inclusive network of young activists, European entrepreneurs and youth actors, dedicated to the promotion and development of ecohealth tourism projects, based on the identification of good practices at European level 2. provide updated tools following the health crisis, based on the most relevant initiatives to support youth initiatives related to ecotourism (toolkit)3. provide youth actors with relevant and renewed distance learning tools (pedagogy)4. Encourage the emergence of ecotourism projects and bring this dynamic to the attention of public decision-makers during regional events<< Implementation >>Our project associates partners experienced in running European projects (LABA, MMS, Materahub) and others who are less experienced (W8) or not/less experienced (OIRD, Defismed). The most experienced partners will support the others and propose rigorous implementation of our activities (output production, training activities, dissemination events, management, evaluation and communication. GEHT has been designed to produce a series of actions that give immediate positive results in terms of developing the skills of professionals active in the integration of the most fragile young people and of the young people themselves. To achieve this, we will produce 1) 4 RESULTS R1: Good practice guide : Identification of innovative practices in youth initiatives in the field of ECO-HEALTH tourism / This study gathers documentary resources, in transmedia format (interactive resources) that allows the eco-tourism sector, entrepreneurship educators, mediators and young people to understand how eco-health tourism, through themes such as sport, streetfood, digital at the service of heritage, allows territories to support the development of eco-health tourism projects. 30 cases mapped throughout Europe, 15 interviews and 15 portraits are presented. R2 : Pedagogical guide built from 3 courses experienced by young people around urban sports, culinary heritage, material heritage: identification of young people's know-how. R3 : Training courses for youth workers: formalisation of 2 innovative courses not offered by vocational training on the skills of the eco-health tourism professions (between 10 and 20 teaching sheets and a skills reference framework). R4 : Immersive, online training toolbox: making available a catalogue of inclusive, interactive online teaching tools. Presentation of an audio-visual series of 7 episodes designed by OIRD youth. Elements to raise awareness of a wide audience: young people, professionals and public and private actors of eco-tourism, public decision makers. These results are complementary: the partners share the diagnosis that the modes of transmission of knowledge are still very vertical and use similar media based essentially on the written word and an academic culture. The productions R3 to 4 are intended to diversify the learning environments of the project's target audiences on the basis of the results of R1 and R2 based on shared participatory observation and action research methodologies. 2) 5 transnational meetings. They punctuate each stage (launch/implementation of activities/completion). The partners create a management manual and share the project management tools. 3) 2 training activities aimed at testing, criticizing and improving the results produced. These activities bring together more than 42 young people and youth workers 4) 3 dissemination events including a closing event in Brussels which brings together more than 200 people 5) A strong communication and dissemination strategy both internally and externally. The partners rely on their national networks and on the European networks of local and regional authorities of which LABA is a member. 6) A method of quantitative and qualitative in itinere evaluation, in order to be able to correct our actions according to the events or difficulties encountered<< Results >>In 36 months, our project will achieve the following results a) Raising awareness of the greatest number of people through the use of fun and educational tools: digital toolbox, and illustration of the project in an audio-visual series produced by young Belgians (OIRD)b) Promotion of the project, the partners, the participants and the Erasmus programme in the framework of large-scale events in Manorhamilton (Agricultural Show), Nice (Eco-tourism Summit) and Brussels (more than 200 people were mobilised for the final event of the film)c) Creation of new professional channels for the inclusion of young people in eco-health tourism, concretised by pedagogical paths, skill sets and training.d) Revelation of human resources in the service of eco-health tourisme) Experimentation of 3 tourist itineraries initiated by young people in the fields of sport, streetfood, urban heritage enhancementf ) Training courses (in physical and digital format) transferable to all European territories and communities f) Creation of professional outlets via a network of private (250 companies reached by all partners) and public (400 local authorities reached in particular by the LABA, Coompanions, Materahub networks) employers g) Transformation of integration policies and support methods for young people in the field of ecotourism For its implementation, the project mobilises more than 400 people in the following cities during the whole project period: Nice, Brussels, Bordeaux, Gothenburg) EFFECTS: a) 60 private and public organisations active in ecohealth tourism will participate in R1 b) 15 public or private organisations will become the first generation of educators of the ""new professions"" of Ecohealth tourism. c) More than 200 environmental managers and stakeholders will use the Results and commit to supporting the training of young people d) 400 public or social organisations will download the educational resources and use them to extend and specialise their approach through cooperation with environmental stakeholders e) 250 potential environmental entrepreneurs will use the tools and engage in training young people on eco-tourism issues IMPACTS: a) Hundreds of people, especially adults and youth trainers will participate in the development of offers in eco-health tourism, receiving training adapted to their needs and those of the territories. A large number of them will participate in community tourism programmes b) 1500 public and private environmental professionals will improve their capacity to participate in actions for the inclusion of young people in precarious situations. In the long term, this will contribute to the cooperation of the public and private environmental sector with the economic actors of tourism. c) 1500 public actors who wish to combine economic development and revitalisation of their territory and recognise that the social and economic inclusion of young people requires multisectoral cooperation. This result is multiplied by the dynamics of Gothenburg, European Capital of Innovative Tourism 2020 and Matera, European Capital of Culture 2019. Our project brings concrete, tested and tangible proposals to the training sector for invisible young people and the results reach 10,000 people in Europe"