The project GeT responds to the need for innovative methods to discuss sustainable consumption and links between local actions and global impacts in youth work and global citizenship education. The project aims at increasing the awareness and action of youth on sustainable consumption. In addition, it will offer youth workers concrete tools for innovative and engaging activities to encourage sustainable consumption and active citizenship amongst youth.During the project, four partner organisations involved in youth work in Finland, Austria, Spain and Italy will collect, analyse and disseminate best practices in using games and gamifying in tackling complex issues related to sustainability in youth work. These will be published in a toolkit covering best practices that are easily adapted for use anywhere. The partners will also use their expertise to develop a board game that will enable young people to learn about sustainable consumption in a fun, engaging way. The game will be a simple tool for youth workers and teachers to tackle the complex issues. It will be accompanied by clear instructions for educators and can be used in various settings. Through the national and international networks of the partners it will reach European organisations working with youth, as well as schools and educators. The outputs of the project will remain free for use in the as part of the partners’ services to youth workers, volunteers and educators, hence offering long term benefits for the communities.During the project the partners will meet three times to learn from each other and share best practices. The board game will be co-created with youth and launched in national events.

<< Background >>Climate activists around the world have gained more visibility. But to what extent is the climate movement really ‘climate just’, given that most of those involved are from well-educated, middle-class backgrounds? For the global climate justice movement to open up and grow, we need renewed climate justice narratives led by the voices of those most affected. But how? We need to change the way stories are told about these marginalised groups – from passively victimising them to affirming their active resistance. People with origin in the countries most affected are often the least listend to. Yet, they have the possibility to - on the one hand - show how the climate crisis is not a problem of the future but is already affecting the lifes of people in numerous countries. On the other hand, they provide ideas how to become active against the climate crisis in their surroundings and how to create resilient environments and communities. We provide a platform for this stories to spread. We need to stop portraying the climate crisis as an abstract problem that leaves many of us with a feeling of hopelessness and inaction. Instead, we need new ways of telling real stories – personal, inclusive and inspiring – that we can use in educational work and climate activism across Europe (and beyond). And we need to spark new debates and community practices, starting from the associations in which we operate and going outwards.<< Objectives >>Against this background, our proposed project ‘Green Diversity?!’ aims at the following four interrelated objectives: OBJECTIVE 1: Strengthen the capacities of youth educators, NGO staff and volunteers to work with young people with fewer opportunities (particularly with migrant background) in non-formal education around the climate crisis OBJECTIVE 2: Develop emotional literacy in education through storytelling and other art-based learning approaches OBJECTIVE 3: Promote active civil participation of young people with fewer opportunities (particularly with migrant background) through real life, community-based experiencesOBJECTIVE 4: Building climate justice into the structures of NGOs and associations working in climate justice and global citizenship education<< Implementation >>The core of the project activities will centre on learning, teaching and training activities in the line-up for (1) the production of a ‘Visual Storytelling Toolkit for Green Diversity (WORK PACKAGE 2); (2) the design of an ‘Interactive Map of Climate Activists’ (WORK PACKAGE 3); and (3) the design of a ‘Climate Justice Policy Box’ (WORK PACKAGE 4). The remaining work packages will have a supporting function – in terms of project management/coordination and dissemination (WORK PACKAGE 1) as well as monitoring, evaluation, learning and communication (WORK PACKAGE 5). WORK PACKAGE 2 - Production of a ‘Visual Storytelling Toolkit for Green Diversity’ (led by SCI Germany)Preparation phase (April to June 2022): Following a first collaborative conceptualisation phase among all partner organisations (including the youth representatives of each organisation), a detailed design concept for the storytelling toolkit will be jointly prepared. Implementation/production phase (July 2022 - May 2023): A total of 10-15 storytelling methods, tools and approaches from the different organisations and local contexts will be collected, visually designed, jointly reviewed and tested, and finally translated into four different languages (i.e., English, German, Spanish, and Italian). Dissemination phase (June - October 2023): The finalised product will be promoted across the communication/social media channels of all partner organisations and their networks, added to their websites as well as to the SALTO-Youth toolbox. The multiplier events will serve for dissemination to other NGOs, climate education practitioners and youth workers. WORK PACKAGE 3 - Production of a ‘Interactive Map of Climate Activists’ (led by JEW)Preparation phase (April to July 2022): Following a first collaborative conceptualisation phase among all partner organisations (including the youth representatives of each organisation), a detailed design concept for the interactive map will be jointly prepared. A three-day ‘Storytelling Lab’ will be organised for youth to learn how to share their stories (learning storytelling skills, finding the format that fits with their needs, etc.). Training participants will also plan local storytelling events together, where they can try out and test their learnings. Implementation/production phase (July 2022 - November 2022): Collection of 15-20 videos, including videos from young climate activists from Europe (Spain, Italy, Finland, Austria - mainly youth with migration backgrounds) as well as Latin America, Africa and Asia. The stories will be edited and contextualised and the interactive website will be built and tested during learning activity 2. Dissemination (May 2023 - August 2023): A plugin will be installed at all partner websites to link directly to the map and the product will be disseminated across various pedagogical networks.WORK PACKAGE 4 - Production of a ‘Climate Justice Policy Box’ (led by LVIA)Preparation phase (March 2023): An online kick-off with the legal representatives and/or board members of the participating organisations and representatives of the target groups will be held to (1) collect existing practises, (2) ensure the commitment of the organisational leaders, and (3) use existing good practice documents as a starting point. Implementation phase (March 2023 – October 2023): A training will be held to reflect on the current organisational policy practices and on how to facilitate participatory development and implementation processes within the organisation. The training outcome will be a checklist draft on ‘How to make your climate justice policy operational'. Following the training, each partner organisation will work locally to produce their climate justice policy and feed their processes back from local to the transnational level.Dissemination phase (November 2023 – February 2024): The documents will be presented across different networks and at an international conference.<< Results >>We have defined the following three Project Results: PROJECT RESULT 1: ‘Storytelling for Green Diversity’ - a visual toolkit on storytelling for climate justice targeted at youth workers, climate activists and climate educators. The toolkit will enable a more powerful way for education practitioners to combine discussing the climate crisis and discrimination.PROJECT RESULT 2: ‘I, the climate activist’ - an interactive map showing 15-20 short videos of climate activists all around the world. In short video sequences (2-5 minutes), they will share their local situation and give testimonial on how they have become activists for climate justice. PROJECT RESULT 3: ‘Climate Justice Policy Box’ - a co-creation process for supporting organisations to become climate just – sparking new debates and more inclusive, diverse and equitable community practices.Through the successful implementation of the project, we expect to achieve the following outcomes: Individual level: - 18 NGO staff and volunteers/youth workers have increased learning competences (in terms of knowledge, skills, values, attitudes) of NFE methods on climate justice (adding 150 persons who will be reached at multiplier events)- 22 youth with fewer opportunities/group leaders are equipped with storytelling competences (in terms of participatory creation of storytelling events, different approaches, methods and tools, etc.)(adding 150 persons who will be reached through local storytelling events)- 20 NGO staff have increased competences in climate justice policy development (in terms of self-awareness of personal biases, power and privilege, knowledge of practical actions, and confidence to link the climate crisis with discrimination)- Material (visual toolkit, interactive map, climate justice policy box) - a total of 3.000 online clicks/downloads, 1.000 printed versions of visual toolkit distributed Institutional level: - 5 partner organisations are better equipped for strengthening youth participation in their future programmes - 5 partner organisations have improved competences in transnational project management - 5 partner organisations can use art-based learning approaches within their wider programmatic work on climate justice- 5 partner organisations are pioneers in setting up climate justice policy documents to make their organisational cultures more inclusive and diverse The wider climate justice education sector: - Availability and accessibility of innovative pedagogical resources that foster learning through social experiences and art-based learning - Young people with fewer opportunities become agents of change in their own contexts - Availability and accessibility of guidelines for policy documents tailored to the needs and interests of NGOs/youth associations dealing with climate justice education - A fruitful exchange and learning space among transnational actors active in climate justice – reflections can be used in each country to advance existing programmes or foster new approaches altogether- Social media: 50.000 persons reached via the website and social media- Associated partners will be able to use the material

<< Objectives >>The project ACT aims to develop high quality materials for young people, teachers and youth workers that respond to the need for innovative methods to discuss the themes of sustainability, circular economy and climate justice. The project aims to increase the awareness among young people and to encourage them to take steps towards active citizenship. In addition, it aims to offer youth workers and teachers tools for engaging activities to help young people create their own sustainability acts.<< Implementation >>Project partners are going to collect best practices by hosting focus groups and by doing desk research. The best practices are going to be utilised in the other activities. Partners will create a manual for sustainability acts for both young people and teachers & youth workers. Aso, partners will co-create with target groups a workshop model that will utilise gamification and host workshops in their country. All the activities are going to be disseminated in many different ways.<< Results >>At the end of the project period, partners have developed one initial report of the best practices and two manuals for different target groups. Partners have also created workshop models for different target groups. All these materials can be found from partners websites. In addition, partners have organised workshops for young people and for teachers & youth workers. Young people have gained knowledge of project topics and have a better ability to create sustainability acts.

EVOLVET (European VOLunteer coordinators Vocation Education and Training) was a European strategic partnership composed by seven organisations working with development projects for social inclusion and education from Austria, Finland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. The project aimed at giving a positive impulsion to the training of volunteer coordinators by providing a standardised tool-kit containing on-the-job training materials for skills and competences commonly demanded to volunteer coordinators across Europe, not only for the management of development projects but also on the concrete education and training of the volunteers taking part on them.During the two-year project duration, partner organisations worked on exchanging information and materials about their current on-the-job training practices for their professional volunteer coordinators as well as carried out on-the-field research of the skills and competences commonly demanded to volunteer coordinators across Europe. Partners used the collected information and materials to create a standardised tool-kit containing on-the-job training materials for skills and competences commonly demanded to volunteer coordinators in development organisations across Europe, that was tested on the different partner countries in order to ensure its quality and improve it using real volunteer coordinators working on development organisations. Moreover, the project also run transnational training mobilities that made possible to volunteer coordinators from the different partner organisations to take part in common education initiatives about volunteer management embedded within the activities of the project. The creation of such standard pan-European training materials for professional volunteer coordinators will directly contribute to improve the transparency and recognition of their qualifications and competences using also already established systems based on measurable recognitions at transnational level, including those acquired through formal, non-formal and informal learning. Furthermore, the project succeeded to identify the skills required by professional volunteer coordinators on development organisations, what made possible to compose an standard curriculum of competences for this professional category that could be use afterwards for both, vocational education and training centres (to develop new learning pathways, methodologies and degrees) and organisations working with projects for local and international development (to detect which competences should be reinforced on their teams and detect those skills needed for future recruitments).According to all of this, EVOLVET was not only an innovative project which main objective was to develop new materials and improve the situation of those professionals working as volunteer coordinators on the development field, but also a necessary initiative to facilitate the transitions of those learning on social education and training centres offering NGOs coordination and management degrees, and the real labour market that will wait them after their graduation. Besides all of this, the project also allowed to create new links between organisations of different countries and sectors working on the same field (local and international development of communities) that made possible to reinforce the transnational structures of communication and sources to support projects on this field.

“TRAINEE: Training and Raising Awareness through In-service Networks for Employment and Entrepreneurship” is a 24-month partnership funded under the Key Action 2 of the Erasmus+ programme for youth initiatives coordinated by Neo Sapiens SLU (Spain) with the support of the Coordinadora de ONGs de Desarrollo de La Rioja (Spain), Center for Social Innovation LTD (Cyprus), LVIA (Italy), Klaipeda Ernestas Galvanauskas VET centre (Lithuania), Pista Mágica (Portugal) and Youth Network MaMa (Slovenia). The main aim of this initiative and partnership would be to work together and exchange good practices related to train those professionals who work on the support or advice of young people on employment issues or who promotes young people employability (ex. Youth workers, VET teachers, school guidance services for students, public administration employment advisers, NGOs technicians related to youth employment programmes, etc.). Using new technologies and non-formal techniques, the project will train those in contact with young people to generate and promote service-learning opportunities while raising awareness about global issues (especially about the SDGs, Agenda 2030 and economy of the common good) and to allow that young people develop skills for their personal growing and employability. To make this possible and besides creating training materials for youth employment promoters and NGOs, the project will also build on each country networks of local NGOs on which young people could provide services to their local communities while acquiring competences that could contribute to their personal growing, CV improvement and future entrance on the labour market. This service could be adapted when needed to already existing internship or volunteering programmes of the young people training centres, schools or NGOs mobility programmes involved in the project and even implemented at European level by those having KA1 projects approved under Erasmus+. All would be possible thanks to face to face Training Workshops, an e-learning platform for Employment Promoters and NGOs mentors, as well as through a Database to allow that young people from the project countries could carry out service-learning placements on their areas (or at EU level) towards their training and employability while producing a positive impact on their communities and towards the inclusion of their groups with fewer opportunities. The project will also design different dissemination strategies and events that will allow to spread its results among different stakeholders related to youth employment and social in inclusion for young people on risk of exclusion. All the intellectual outputs and results obtained will be created combining non-formal education, theoretical contents and flexible techniques that would make possible to adapt them to different contexts or areas out of the ones on which the project will be originally implemented.