Training course for youth workers
A hands-on introduction to sustainability-focused practices, and support to design educational activities on the green transition for young people.
Why
The last activity of the project, added thanks to savings on the budget, built on Take the Lead and Permaculture for Youthworkers. It offered youth workers, educators and youth organisation staff a hands-on introduction to sustainability-focused practices, using the European sustainability competence framework, GreenComp.
What happened
- Discovering sustainable practices on the farm: rocket-stove cooking, building gardens, building soil and eco-building.
- Permaculture ethics, principles and patterns as a way of thinking in systems.
- Design thinking: in international teams, participants designed, tested and presented their own educational activities.
- Sharing good practices and permaculture stories from their organisations.
- Me and my home: how to take it all back to their own context, with follow-up and Youthpass.
Results
- New educational activities on sustainability, designed by the participants for their own contexts.
- In the EU survey, all 16 respondents were very satisfied and would recommend the experience to a colleague.
“I plan to integrate the knowledge and tools acquired during the project into my youth work by designing more inclusive, participatory and sustainability-focused activities.” (a Designing for Sustainability participant)
“The training course will help me to develop activities for teenagers about the interconnectedness of environmental and social problems, and about how large-scale and small-scale actions affect each other.” (a Designing for Sustainability participant)
