Solution Not Pollution – Building Problem-solving Skills of Youth to Address Environmental and Climate Change Issues Erasmus Project

Project Title

Solution Not Pollution – Building Problem-solving Skills of Youth to Address Environmental and Climate Change Issues

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 : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

There is ample evidence that young people all over the world are facing up to the climate change challenge. Global demonstrations in September 2019 were largely organised and led by young people demanding action. However, protest alone is not sufficient to address the climate change challenge. Action is needed on an individual and collective level to change peoples habits; to adopt more environmentally friendly patterns of production and consumption; and to find solutions to the climate change challenge we all now face. Education has a critical role to play if the protests of young people are to be leveraged into action and youth work in its many formal, informal and non-formal interventions is the perfect starting point to set the challenge to today’s young people to think of solutions to reduce the many pollutions that contribute to the pace of climate change.

Aims:
1. To promote quality and innovation in youth work by building the skills of youth professionals to support them to address climate change issues in their formal, non-formal and informal learning/engagement activities
2. To empower young people by building their critical thinking skills especially where climate change issues are concerned
3. To promote entrepreneurship/social entrepreneurship by presenting the climate change challenges that face our society as business opportunities

Objectives:
1. To introduce challenge-based learning in youth work by modifying and transferring existing learning resources about WebQuest development to a youth work setting in a climate change context
2. To develop a collection of challenge-based WebQuest learning resources that address a number of critical topics that address the climate change challenge
3. To develop a bespoke entrepreneurship/social entrepreneurship curriculum specifically addressed to young people that supports them to find sustainable online/offline business solutions in a climate change context

Target Groups:
1. Front-line youth workers working in formal, non-formal and informal settings
2. Young people who are interested in accepting the climate change challenge and trying to instigate change
3. Young people who are interested in the business opportunities that the climate change challenge presents

Project Website

http://solutionnotpollution.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 173981 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUTURE IN PERSPECTIVE LIMITED & Country: IE

Project Partners

• JUGEND-& KULTURPROJEKT EV
• Solution: Solidarité & Inclusion
• AKLUB CENTRUM VZDELAVANI A PORADENSTVI