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Human activity is overloading our atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other global warming emissions, which trap heat, steadily drive up the planet’s temperature, and create significant and harmful impacts on our health, our environment, and our climate. Still, children/students get only theoretical and scarce knowledge which leaves open doors to the conventional energy sources. Renewable energy is available everywhere and the technologies of application are mature and relatively simple. It is vital that young people develop a solid understanding of renewable energy’s power and its various possible applications. The project has been a great start for youngsters to learn more about all types of renewable energy, and grow up more informed about the vital role of renewable technologies in changing world’s energy future. The center of this project and event concept is the exchange of knowledge with a high degree of participation and co-creation. The project aims to: - increase young people's competence in renewable energy through innovative and creative learning- Train young people to be able to organize their community for launching a local renewable energy initiative with bottom up approach - Train young people to be able to select the technologically, agriculturally, economically, socially and environmentally best fitting option for their community. The project was planned to be completed in 4 phases. Yet, as a result of difficulties experienced by the partners such as traveling challenges, closure of schools, and overall government restrictions, due to the coronavirus outbreak, 4th phase has been canceled.1st Phase - Kickoff and coordination meetings: 1.Ankara-TURKEY, 2.Bonn-GERMANY, 3.Barcelona-SPAIN, 4.Vienna-AUSTRIA2nd Phase - Production of IOs: There are four IOs in this project; - Information, educational kits and training documents, used during training of young trainers and educators, and during the renewable energy events. - Peer learning methodology, used during the peer learning activities. - Informative media, used for the dissemination of the project during each activity - E-learning module used during the training3rd Phase - Learning, Teaching and Training Activities:University students were trained by the experts from Bilkent University and Viyana Technical University. Approximately 15 young trainers were planned to participate to science trainings, we achieved to train 31 young trainers. There have been learning teaching activities in 4 different cities such as Çanakkale, Trabzon, İzmir and Iğdır. First day of the activities were held at high schools for high school students and teachers. Second day of the activities were held at education faculties of the universities for education faculty students which are the teachers of tomorrow. Third day of the activities were held at renewable energy plants according to regional relevance with university students. There were students and teachers from 22 different high schools, 4 different universities. 31 Young Trainers, 500 high school students, app. 20 high school teachers, 462 university students at education faculties attended to training activities, 170 students attended to technical tours.Since we established renewable energy, peer learning methodology and e-learning tools, this will be a model and hub for youth to learn more about these concepts. Under the professional experience and coordination of the Ankara Provincial Directorate of Environment and Urbanization, the experience of European partner organizations, the technical knowledge of Bilkent University, and the participation of TERA Ankara, a well-organized and meticulously structured training program on renewable energy has been put into use.Young students have been intentionally selected to be trained as the main target group for the project. Because we thought that the education of youth is more crucial compared to the other groups in order to spread the vital importance of renewable energy usage from generation to generation in a sustainable way and to ensure a solid understanding of its technology. Additionally, we have also selected the teacher candidates who study in education faculties in related cities as a target group in order to meet the sustainability goals of the project, so that, they will also educate their students in the future raising them promoting renewable energy mentality.Moreover, academic studies realized within the project scope will be a resource to be used by students and other academicians permanently for years after the end of the EU funding.All the intellectual outputs composed by the experts have been being published on the official website of the project (www.renewableenergyforyouth.org ) and they are downloadable in any time for those who want to know about the field and need to use them.
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