Balkan Culture

 

ACTIVEYOUTH4Life is an ERASMUS+ KA2  project in the field of YOUTH with the main target to enhance youths’ civic participation and their sustainable and environmental awareness. What does this mean in practice? It means that it aims to shape active citizens who fight effectively to tackle climate change issues that nowadays are being more and more observed even at the local level.

It is an undeniable fact that strengthening young people's sense of initiative and cooperation towards the confrontation of environmental problems is the steppingstone to make the change towards the urgent issue of climate crisis.  To this end, ACTIVEYOUTH4Life has foreseen, among others, the development of a Training Handbook for raising youths’ awareness on environmental issues and sustainability through filmmaking. Useful tools, material and creative ways to address these issues, are all included in the Handbook, so as to equip youth workers with a simple methodology on filmmaking, without having to be specialists in the field. At the same time, through the implementation of the Handbook, specific LIFEComp competences such as communication, collaboration, flexibility, well-being and empathy are being enhanced to the youth.

It should be noted that the effectiveness of the Handbook was tested in each country by involving young people in the procedure of the piloting implementation. Under the guidance of a trainer and following the steps that are described in the Handbook, the participants cooperated and exchanged ideas with the ultimate goal to create a short film about environmental awareness. During this procedure, young people had the opportunity to develop their personal competences and become more sensitive on the issues of climate change and more motivated to take initiatives for environmental protection. Furthermore, by using the proposed materials and the ideas of the Training Handbook and working as a team, they managed to create a space of dialogue, inspiration and collaboration, within which the final product were the short films that displayed how climate change has its effects even on a local level and how we can tackle these problems by making small, but important changes in our daily lives.

In the following link you will find the short films of the Youngsters https://www.youtube.com/@ACTIVEYOUTH4life

Project website: https://activeyouth4life.eu/