Environmental Protection & Innovative Change for Youth in EuroAsia Erasmus Project

Project Title

Environmental Protection & Innovative Change for Youth in EuroAsia

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Environmental Protection and Innovative Change for Youth in EuroAsia / EPIC Youth is a project applied under the Capacity Building in the area of Youth, Action KA2, Erasmus plus programme. Project involves 4 partners, coordinating organisation from FYROM, and three partners from Spain, Portugal and Malaysia. Project will last for 21 day and its main task will be to connect, educate and build the network between 4 countries in area of environment and youth, but mostly focusing on Unated Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. With special focus on Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below our water and Goal 15: Life on our land, this project will tackle one of the most important challenges of 21st century: Environmental protection.Project is consisted out of different steps and it is involving several mobilities and capacity building activities. It will start on the kick-off meeting in FYROM where all of the partners will meet and discuss the project development guided by an expert. Second part is the training course on SDGs, Youth and Environment and equal contribution of the partners in the area of their expertise. After that partner organisations will implement 4 study visits and learn from each other about environmental protection programmes they all carry out. In this phase they will be preparing next big step of the project: short and long term EVS projects. Wourld Youth Foundation Melaka, Malaysia will after that host 9 volunteers from Fyrom, Spain and Portugal who will be working on ocean protection projects, community development programmes with local fishermen and projects that are involving environmental education management. Right after that 3 volunteers from Malaysia will be sent to FYROM, Spain and Portugal in order to do their 5 months service in those countries. During the EVS project length, all of the volunteers and the members of the partner organisations involved in the project will gather around the common idea of the Handbook development. The idea behind the Handbook is to collect stories and researches, findings and discoveries about environmental issues in these 4 countries. the second objective is to share the model of the capacity building programme so other organisations will be able to use it in future. The last objective is to disseminate the project results, Erasmus plus programme objectives and to represent a constitutional document for the Network Establishment. Last part of the project is the evaluation meeting where all of the partners will measure the impact of the overall project outcomes and sign the Memorandum of the establishment of the EPIC YOUTH Network. Project will last for 21 month and it will involve young people from rural areas, one with social and economical issues. Project is planned to be closed by the beginning of 2020 and its results will be presented in publich channels of communication.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 136816,18 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASSOCIATION FOR PROGRESS, EDUCATION AND LOBBYING NEL SKOPJE & Country: MK

Project Partners

• WORLD YOUTH FOUNDATION
• ASSOCIACAO JUVENIL DE PENICHE
• VIAJE A LA SOSTENIBILIDAD S.COOP.PEQQUENA