Project Results

The “EUnvironemtal emergency” project provides the space for youngsters to enrich their knowledge about environmental issues, climate challenges and related EU strategies and policies, while advance their skills and competences through a set of innovative tools. The improvement on their knowledge will result in having a thorough overview of what are the problems that our planet strives to tackle and how the communities together with politicians should act. Therefore, the project will contribute in raising their awareness towards climate change and other eco- problems thereby making them want to raise their voice and act as influencers by exposing their concerns publicly. Hence, the project seeks, through the involvement of the youngsters to the project activities, to activate them and highlight their influence to the communities. By influencing them in terms of their responsibility towards the planet, we seek to transfer this “social responsibility” awareness to their educational institutions as well and increase awareness about the environment and climate change within the educational structures.

On the other hand, as the project entails only activities that are totally participatory, interactive and based on non-formal and informal learning and ICT tools, the participating youngsters will experience a number of actions that will help them increase skills and competences such as analytical and critical thinking, organization and cooperation skills, digital skills etc. As the project includes the engagement of the youngsters in the creation of board games and comics, sense of creativity will also be enhanced. Moreover, as the content of all materials developed is based on the EU values, the project promotes active participation, European citizenship and civic engagement. Therefore, all of the activities that the youngsters will participate to will make them feel empowered, more eager and ready to take action within their local communities and beyond and perceive the environmental challenges as universal issues that need to be tackled by societies as a whole under the common values of respect, tolerance and solidarity.

Furthermore, the project includes the development of a Guide focusing on how non-formal learning can be blended in the formal education and how non- formal learning tools can achieve the advancement of skills and competences of youngsters.

The project will also contribute to the development of the eight key competences for life long learning. Teaching staff will also benefit by the project as they will be given the chance to advance their teaching techniques and professional profile.