Active Citizenship for youths by enhancing LIFECOMP competencies through innovative teaching tools and techniques – ACTIVEYOUTH4LIFE is approved under the Erasmus+ KA220-YOU-Cooperation Partnerships in Youth.
The overall objective of ACTIVEYOUTH4LIFE is the enhancement of youths’ civic participation and sustainable and environmental awareness, so as to be able to effectively tackle climate change issues through the cultivation of LIFEComp competences. The transnational character of the project will contribute to the development of innovative project results. It will enable the exchange of good practices and comparisons between different settings and systems between partners and participants from six different countries: Spain, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Cyprus and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition, the transnational character of the project will lead to the development of project results that will not only be relevant to the context of the participating organizations’ countries but of project results with the potential to have a Pan-European applicability.
ACTIVEYOUTH4LIFE applies a holistic approach, addressing both youth workers, trainers, educators and youths so as to provide new alternative, inspirational means for engaging youths and cultivating their key competences that apply to all spheres of life that can help them to thrive in the 21st Century.
Under this scope, the ACTIVEYOUTH4LIFE project aims to cultivate the active citizenship mindset of youths in order to enable them to act as responsible citizens by adopting sustainable lifestyles and taking responsibility for the environment.
Project objectives:
-To foster active citizenship among young people and strengthen young people's sense of initiative towards environmental problems.
-Napraviti višedimenzionalni pristup obuci koji je prilagodljiv lokalnom, regionalnom i EU kontekstu.
- To create a multidimensional training approach adaptable to local, regional and EU contexts. -To provide innovative practices and tools, such as filmmaking and serious gaming through “the art of storytelling”, so as to prepare educators, trainers, youth workers and youths to become true agents of change via cultivation of LIFEComp competences.
-To promote youth active motivation so as to become more cooperative, be engaged towards problem solving for overcoming environmental challenges embracing their dynamic potential to cope with complexity as thriving individuals/citizens.
-To create an attractive and easy to be used training material for youths, in order to equip them with the necessary knowledge, skills and competences that will prepare them to be active citizens towards environmental issues.
-To create a virtual community space for the promotion of dialogue and collaboration among youths, motivating them to take initiatives towards a common goal: how to take action against climate change.
Looking forward to a successful two-year implementation of ACTIVEYOUTH4LIFE!
