Study Visit : Sustainable and creative green models involving young people
Curious to discover green and sustainable initiatives in FR speaking part of Belgium & discuss with Eur. colleagues? Eager to talk about your youth realities, but also see if things are adaptable to your action field? Then this study visit is for you.
Description
In the context of climate challenges and environmental degradation, intitiatives are born and demonstrate a lot of creativity and opportunities for young people to participate, learn and eventually also be creative or even find jobs in this sector.
We would like to invite you to come, see and discuss these initiatives, but also have a look at what is going on in your countries and have a broader view of what is possible to adapt or not.
And we hope that from here, new international collaboration projects can be set up…
The objectives of this Study Visit are :
- To compare practices and field of action of the participants at level of green initiatives ;
- To discover what is going on in the French speaking part of Belgium (Federation Wallonie-Brussels) about sustainable and creative green initiatives involving young people;
- To reflect about some transferability in the field of action of the participants ;
- To give the opportunity to the participants to create partnerships for new European projects.
Profile of participants :
- Aged 18+
- Youth workers, educators, youth project leaders and social workers involved directly with young people in the field of environment or sustainable green living;
- Local authorities representatives interested in developping new youth initiatives in the field of environment or sustainable green living ;
- Ready to fully participate to the activity ;
- Interested in developping international cooperation in these fields ;
- Able to work in English.
The activity will be divided between exchanges of the diverses practices, field visits with debriefing and a common conclusion of what we can do with all this. A partnership building moment will also take place.
Accommodation and food
The hosting NA of this offer will organise the accommodation and covers the costs for accommodation and food during the duration of the activity, from 13/05 dinner till 18/05 breakfast.
Participating countries
Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries
Working language
English
Participation fee
This project is financed by the participating National Agencies (NAs) of the Erasmus+ Youth in Action Programme. The participation fee varies from country to country. Please contact your National Agency or SALTO Resource Centre (SALTO) to learn more about the participation fee for participants from your country.
Travel reimbursement
Please contact your NA or SALTO in order to know whether they would support your travel costs. If yes, after being selected, get in touch with your NA or SALTO again to learn more about the overall procedure to arrange the booking of your travel tickets and the reimbursement of your travel expenses.
