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Climate-Action
Start date: Jan 2, 2016, End date: Nov 1, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project entitled Climate-Action is focused on the theme of climate change addressed by concerned and proactive European youth. The idea of the project is a common effect of young people from UK, Norway and Turkey. The project is a follow up event to youth exchange Greenskills that took place in Poland in November 2013 during the UN Climate Conference in Warsaw. Now in 2015 a new Climate Conference in about to take place in Paris. Climate-Action project's idea is to enhanced cooperation between organisations in the youth field, international organisations, cultural centers and experts. For this purpose young people working on the project have established cooperation with ecological experts, cultural centers in Svalbard and the final goal of the project is to attract wider audience through preparing a video presenting the problem and uploading it to the social media.It is young people's duty to plug in this generation with increasingly strong social and environmental awareness, the energy and knowledge to lead our societies towards climate resilient future. The rapid environmental change demands that human beings not only think in terms of weeks, years and decades but across generations. The objectives of this project are primarily to raise awareness among young people about the effects of the climate change, and to empower young people to raise their voice in the global debate on preserving natural environment. Other objective is the increased learning mobility opportunities for young people, through organizing the event on Svalbard region highly affected and topic of intense debate. A travel to arctic will give to young participants broader perspective on the topic, but also a platform to reaching wider audience through allowing them to witness on the spot the real effects of the climate change and thus to prepare a reliable dissemination results that will be later shared on the social medias.Within Climate-Action project, we attempt to:- to promote the pro-ecological way of living in Europe thanks to the use of social media and the intellectual outcomes of the expedition of young people to Svalbard - to teach young people that through creating intentional groups we could more efficiently tackle the contemporary social issues- presenting Svalbard as an integral European territory, and involving young Europeans into caring about this land- fostering cooperation between young people from Europe, UK, Svalbard, Norway and Turkey.The project predicts 10 participants from UK, Norway and Turkey who will spend time together with each other in 2016. The participant profile is: being fluent in English, interested in the topic of ecology or sustainable development, motivated to implement follow-up actions. Hence the project Climate-Action as a whole is structured in a way that provides the opportunity for participants to become familiar with these concepts, and to later work on it by ourselves. During the project we plan to record a promotional video, which will be shared on social media.Type of activity; A1 Youth Exchange APVVenue; Longyearbyen, Svalbard, NorwayPlanned dates; 08 - 11 February, 2016Countries involved; UK, Norway, and Turkey Type of activity; A2 Youth Exchange Programme CountriesVenue; Longyearbyen, Svalbard, NorwayPlanned dates; March 25th through to April 1, 2016Countries involved; UK, Norway and Turkey.The activities of the exchange:- workshops - young people will lead various activities stimulating their peers knowledge and understanding of the topic.- seminars - in the frames of the project we will involve experts which will deliver classes that will put into perspective the existing knowledge of the participants- local explorations - participants together will undertake a number of visits to important ecological monuments, which will help understanding the importance of arctic in our ecosystem.- cultural activities - throughout the youth exchange participants will be fostering cultural understanding as much between the 3 partner countries as with the native Svalbard inhabitants- creating video - the final goal of the project is to prepare a movie piece, that will be later shared on social medias, through all the participants taking part in the exchange. This will not only enlarge the envisaged impact of the project, but also develop basic and transversal skills, such as team management, digital skills, creativity and promotion.
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