GENERAL INFORMATION

PROGRAMME: ClimateYouths: Youth-centred participatory video production as a tool for empowering young people to tackle climate change

ACRONYM: ClimateYouthsPV

PROJECT NUMBER: 2020-1-CY02-KA205-001782

DURATION: 01-7-2020 to 31-12-2021

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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PROGRAMME:
ClimateYouths: Youth-centred participatory video production as a tool for empowering young people to tackle climate change
ACRONYM: ClimateYouthsPV
PROJECT NUMBER: 2020-1-CY02-KA205-001782

Context/background of project:

Addressing climate change is the 13th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), where it is described as the single biggest threat to development, and since it will disrupt the basic necessities for human health and well-being – food, water, clean air, and a safe place to live – it will impact on almost all the other SDGs (Sanson, A. et al, 2018).
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007), human activity is likely to be the main cause of greenhouse gas emissions to the Earth’s atmosphere, causing global temperatures to rise and Earth’s climate to change. All countries, particularly developing countries, are vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, and are already experiencing increased impacts including persistent drought and extreme weather events, sea level erosion and ocean acidification, further threatening food security and efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development.

International frameworks on climate change and sustainable development policy support youth education and participation in responding to climate change. Youth are identified as a major stakeholder with the right and responsibility to participate in sustainable development. Youth participation promotes active citizenship and the empowerment of future generations to engage in environmental governance, including climate change governance. The UNFCCC, through its Article 6 on Education, Training and Public Awareness, calls on governments to implement educational and training programs on climate change to educate, empower and engage all stakeholders.

The Doha Work Programme on Article 6 of the Convention adopted in 2012 has also targeted youth as a major group for effective engagement in the formulation and implementation of decisions on climate change. Presently, actual implementation of policies at regional or national/local levels is typically lacking or insufficient, especially in developing countries (Narksompong & Limjirakan, 2015). A growing body of empirical research and practice is emerging that emphasises young people’s capacities to influence and participate directly in efforts to learn about, prevent, prepare for, cope with and adapt to climate change and extreme events.

Objectives of project:

  • To provide an accessible way for young people to take action on climate change, through deepening their understanding, engaging and motivating their wider community, and also shaping and creating their own PV, in order to communicate their messages and perspectives to decision-makers and the public.
  • To deliver training courses to directly train the target group (young people) in a set of skills and key competences related to PV production and, also, to deliver these courses to a target group of Youth workers, in order to amplify and perpetuate the ripple effect of those courses.

Description of the results:

The project results are directly linked to the activities carried out within project implementation period:

  • A set of training courses, which combine Youth workers training sessions and youth learners training sessions to gain the knowledge and skills to explore sensitive issues related to global warming and climate change, safely and creatively, through their active involvement in the process of producing PVs, which they will use to influence community mobilisation and local action in an interactive environment created between them and their local community.
  • youth workers + minimum 5 at local level (minimum 13 youth workers) to teach PV processes in each of the 2 short training events (C1+C2), which young learners will use as a creative and effective tool that will influence and participate directly in efforts to learn about, prevent, prepare for, cope with and adapt to climate change and extreme events
  • 12 youth learners + minimum 5 at local level (minimum 17 youth learners) to learn PV processes in each of the 2 short training events (C3+C4) for young people, which will use to produce their own participatory videos.
  • The website, the use of social media (FB) and the creation of a YouTube channel of the ClimateYouths project will contribute as strong dissemination means, which will include the PVs produced by the youth workers and the young learners.

Duration

  • Start Date: 01/07/2020

  • End Date: 31/12/2021

Coordinator

  • STANDO LTD – Cyprus

Partners

  • E-SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL GROUP – Greece

  • BACKSLASH – Spain

  • COMPARATIVE RESEARCH NETWORK EV – Germany

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Project Updates

Closing TPM of ClimateYouthsPV

June 20th, 2022|

The ClimateYouthsPV project's Closing TPM took place in Berlin, Germany. All partners thoroughly discussed all aspects of the project's implementation, including learning outcomes for both young learners and trainers, and concluded their collaboration on [...]