"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."

<< Objectives >>The general objective is to promote cultural tourism as a catalyst for attracting population, economic activity, and quality employment in rural and remote areas with high levels of depopulation and/or economic and social depression. The aim of this project is to provide a training opportunity for the young men and women who live in these areas so that they acquire the necessary skills that will allow them to exploit the possibilities of entrepreneurship in cultural tourism.<< Implementation >>The project will develop the following activities:-Participation in Tirana Youth Capital 2022.-Identification of the best practices that serve as an example to young men and women to re-energize the rural environment.-Training course on creativity for the development of cultural tourism in rural areas.-Piloting of the collaborative platform by 150 young people.-Five local seminars.-International meeting in Turkey with representatives of local municipalities.<< Results >>The main results of the projects will be:- A training manual for young people on creativity for the development of cultural tourism in rural areas.- A collaborative platform and a virtual interactive network.- Guidelines for policy recommendations on the development of cultural tourism in rural areas.The objective is that the 150 young people who participate in piloting the platform acquire skills related to creativity and entrepreneurship in cultural tourism.

"<< Background >>When we talk about ""transition"" we risk falling into the naivety of being able to transport the current system from one point to another but, as young people all over the world are pointing out and as the pandemic has dramatically highlighted, this is not the case. We believe that young people have the capacity, creativity, and passion to build a Europe that does not live off the rest of the world, spreading inequalities and environmental damage. According to the priority of the ""European Youth Forum"", in which the applicant's project coordinator is a delegate, we seek to empower young people as agents of their own, sustainable future. As it is necessary to identify the root causes of inequalities in order to challenge the status quo, the youth should develop competencies in various sustainability-relevant sectors, developing green sectorial skills strategies and methodologies, as well as have a voice about future-oriented curricula that better meet the needs of individuals and communities. We demand that the voice of youth is properly included in the negotiations and, therefore, it calls for a more democratic and equitable process for localizing Agenda 2030, which both includes young people and also tackles inequalities: ""reinforcing links between policy, research and practice"" becomes in this perspective a fundamental vector to approach a just and fair transition.Those are the beliefs and the motives that brought this idea project to life: to foster open and distance learning aimed to develop key competencies and green skills in localizing the goals and principles of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We believe that young people and youth organizations have several needs to be achieved in the move towards a more sustainable future.For young people:a) to be recognized as rightsholders; b) to see unlocked their potential as agents for change.For youth organizations:c) to be effective catalysts of young people’s efforts; d) to be able to enhance internal training and skills of organizations on sustainability issues.Regarding the needs of young people the project will carry out multi-lateral actions in order to ""give them a seat at the table"" in policy-making processes (a); moreover, the project will provide training materials capable of orienteer young people towards the new professions of sustainability, empowering the ability to influence the political agenda at all levels (b).In this perspective inclusion and diversity are the foundations of every mechanism of meaningful youth participation, therefore the project will make participants with fewer opportunities active parts and protagonists in all phases.Regarding the needs of the partnership, the project will meet the need and the success in transforming isolated initiatives that respond to some principles and goals of the 2030 Agenda into a basis for building a network of cooperation on common local agendas to strengthen young people and youth organizations in this transition era.The general aim of the project is to provide to the partnership a framework through which initiatives and policy areas relevant to them can be linked at the European level to work more effectively. The project address to empower the partnership's organizations in two key areas; -- improving the capacity building to nurture and implement innovative sustainable actions for and with young people (c);- integrating eco-friendly and greener ways of implementing project activities (d).Regarding another specific target group of the project will be local institutions and public bodies it is manifest the criticality of involving local communities in implementation decisions and recommendations from the international level. For these reasons this project, under the priority of reinforcing links between policy research and practices, the project wants to contribute to the localization of the 2030 Agenda with a bottom-up and sociocratic method of participation.<< Objectives >>Over the most recent five years of available data, the EU made progress towards almost all of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDG). Progress in some goals has been faster than in others, and within goals, movement away from the sustainable development objectives also occurred in specific areas. Those valiant efforts are endagered because of the pandemic crisis.We are one with the statement of Von Der Leyen: ""In this year of pandemic - and beyond - this must be Europe's motto, too: I care, we care. This is the most important lesson that I hope we can learn from this crisis. It is a lesson about Europe. We care for the weakest among us. We care for our neighbours. We care for our planet. And we care for future generations."" The context we're living into is the Next Generation EU one, as a temporary instrument designed to help repair the immediate economic and social damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With these funds, Europe wants to be greener, more digital and more resilient to better adapt to current and future challenges.From those premises, the objectives of the project in a trasnational framework are:- contributing to mainstream the principle of sustainable development across policy making in the consortium's countries;- providing innovative youth-led tools on Just and Fair Transition accessible for grassroot organizations;- establishing a transnational alliance between local communities of young people committed to be ""critical agents of change"".<< Implementation >>The first transnational meeting will be held in February 2022 in Tirana, hosted by the National Youth Council of Albania, in the framework of Tirana Youth Capital 2022. So, in addition to management aspects, we will be able to exchange the good and innovative practices in the field of the ""EDU2030"" project among partners and relevant stakeholders: a fundamental first step that together with the national InfoDay Youth in Transition, declined locally by partner organizations, will positively contribute to the realization of the Knots of Transition: A practical guide for grassroots organizations. During the sixth month of the project the LTT activity LIVING (IN) TRANSITION in Fiumicino, Italy hosted by the project coordinator Io, Noi – ODV, will contribute to the full achievement of the project’s objectives by reinforcing and enriching, with a participatory bottom-up approach, the consortium’s vision of a just and fair transition. Specifically, by providing participants, in a proper transnational framework, with concrete tools to become agents of change in their communities the LTT will have a decisive impact in activating results for the following project objective: “establishing a transnational alliance between local communities of young people committed to be critical agents of change”. It is also the activity that will start in a proper manner the co-development of the Youth in Transition MOOC, an open and distance learning educational resource tailored for youth “transitioners” and organizations. Together with all dissemination activities of this core result of the project, we’re going to implement the second National InfoDays Transition in Talking, with a relevant focus on public stakeholders. This event will not only be an opportunity for meeting and discussion between stakeholders from local/national public bodies and institutions but will be relevant as a key to the dissemination of the project to enable future actions in the same community in the vision of active policymakers and agents of change. The collection of results of these activities will also help in designing the Guidelines to localize the 2030 Agenda. With these guidelines in place, the project will promote the multiplier events ROADMAP FOR LOCALIZING THE SDGS: this series of events are organized to reach a wider audience not only the intellectual outputs of the project but and foremost aim to further multiply and engage national, regional and local institutions, strengthening the collaboration already established with other teachers, schools and organizations. In this framework, involved and active parties will become allies in the just and fair transition. The creation of this transnational alliance, that we had started from the first meeting in Tirana, will allow activating locally transformations and transitions, well beyond the empowerment of individual participants, in a flow of participatory processes able to manage and promote the young generations oriented to sustainable development and active and nonviolent transformation of society. The meetings are planned to involve, in addition to the identified target group, youth leaders, and key stakeholders in a series of structured conversations, with the goal to explore, together and by different points of view, the new strategies designed at the European level on the project topics. The “EDU2030: Youth in Transition” final and sustainability meeting will be held in August 2023 in Ermesinde, Portugal, hosted by the youth organization ""Associação Sójovem das Saibreiras"". The meeting will be the occasion to present the final results of the project and to involve participant organizations with the stakeholders, including local authorities, in an open round-table discussion about the follow-up of the project.<< Results >>According to the project objectives the general expected outcomes are to see concrete steps forward in people’s rights, in the communities involved in the project, to participate in the decisions that shape their future; to see youth organizations supported and empowered to represent young people’s voices as critical agents of change; to have contributed to the design of policies that fit the criteria of ensuring a more equal society, in which the needs and rights of all, including marginalized groups and future generations, are met within the means of the planet. In particular, during the project we envision achieving the following outcomes: - boost the activation of new eco-friendly way and green practices inside the partners organizations, thanks to the joint cooperation --> related Project Result ""Knots of Transition: A practical guide for grassroots organizations"";- test and validate training methodologies in the field of sustainability with three actors' profiles through the LTT ""Living (in) Transition""; - involve relevant stakeholders and rightsholders; - develop virtual, open and free of charge training materials --> related Project Result ""Youth in Transition MOOC""; - engage local institutions in a discussion about Just and Fair Transition policies --> related Project Result ""Guidelines to localize the 2030 Agenda"".Project result 1. KNOTS OF TRANSITION: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS: The handbook results will be presented in a pragmatic manner, aimed at the hands-on project team, and are supported by relevant references to examples of best and/or good practice, competence centers, and role models which are being carried out in the european cultural field, as well as by global links to appropriate and useful online resources.Project Result 2. YOUTH IN TRANSITION MOOC: it will be, consistently with the project aims, realized and implemented in different phases marked first by the time and then by the results of studies and research in the field of young people and youth workers by the networking formed by the partnership in conjunction and collaboration. Young people, youth workers and youth leaders involved in the project will continue to carry out actions in their communities and at transnational level supportedby this newly open and distance educational resource. Project Result 3. GUIDELINES TO LOCALIZE THE 2030 AGENDA: this toolkit is addressed at regional and local policy-makers responsible for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, as well as other stakeholders involved in the process. Its goal is to support and guide on how to organize the meaningful participation of young people. It provides a set of principles, methods and concrete tips of how to maximize the meaningful participation of youth in the programming, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the people reached by the Youth in Transition project. Moreover, the project sought to directly involve young people, policy-makers, youth organisations andstakeholders in shaping the main design elements of the toolkit, so as to ensure it is as useful and as close as possible to the real needs and challenges of both young people and the local authorities advocating for a just and fair transition.On its completion we expected the following outcomes: - establish transnational alliances of Just and Fair Transition activators; - keep available an open directory of educational resources and their availability to learners with an already significant amount of trained young people; - disseminating role models in the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by cooperating with civil society stakeholders; - raising awareness of public authorities in the implementation of minimal content of new transition policies."