EcoTournament
Planet depends on us

“The main objective of the project "EcoTournament -Planet depends on us" is to strengthen competences of youth workers and young people in the field of environment and climate change through a quality training and online tools which improves youth workers professional development and improve science, digital, citizenship and entrepreneurship competences among young people and to raise awareness on the need to protect the environment in European Union and South Mediterranean region. The taget groups of the project are youth workers and young people, including people with fewer oportiunities. The project will involve at least 200 people in transnational and local activities. The project will last 24 months and consist of several main actions: kick-off meeting, seminar and study visit, creating the online platform with EcoTournament and deliverables relevant to the designed competition, 2 youth exchanges, transnational training course for youth workers and local trainings, dissemination activities and final conference. The project will produce several outputs such as videos, online platform, publications, reports and documents. The most important are: an online platform with EcoTournament and additional educational materials for youth and youth workers. Project will be implemented by 6 partners coming from NGO and businnes sector form Italy, Jordan, Morroco, Poland and Tunisia. Non-formal education is the tool used by ET project to contribute to training, development of virtual non-formal education tools and to promote sustainable development, environment issues, fighting with climate change, the ideas of social inclusion, respect for diversity and non-discrimination.

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​Objectives of the Project

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Our main objective is to strengthen competences of youth workers and young people in the field of environment and climate change through a quality training and online tools which improves youth workers professional development and improve science, digital, citizenship and entrepreneurship competences among young people and to raise awareness on the need to protect the environment in European Union and South Mediterranean region.

The specific goals of the ET project are:

• To establish an innovative way of learning and increasing competences, compose a set of learning materials as open educational resources (OER) and online tournament for young people in the field of ecology, green living, combating climate change etc. by using ICTs methodologies, virtual and nonvirtual collaboration;

•  To learn and exchange good practices in the field of caring for the environment, green lifestyles and green solutions, etc. during a study visit to Italy.

• To test the EcoTournament and educational materials and to develop youngsters ICT competencies.

• To introduce environment issues and awareness on climate change to use them in everyday life and take care of the environment in local areas;

•  To share the experience of European youth mobility projects and innovative educational practices related to social inclusion with South Mediterranean organisations;

• To create on young people’s sense of initiative and raise awareness about the positive contribution that they can make through actions in the field of environment;

• To use online tools throughout the project period to share results, offer online training and develop the partners ICT competencies.

• To share the experience of mobility of youth workers and explore possibilities for youth work Europe and South Mediterranean region;

To develop competences of youth workers and to help them to become more active, responsible, committed and open-minded in daily youth work;

• To disseminate results of the project and to raise awareness on climate change and actions that can be done by citizens.

• The above objectives respond to the needs/ challenges of the target groups and partner organisations, which are

• to learn more about environmental protection, climate change and European and international documents in this field,

• learning about ways to have a positive and negative impact on the environment, increasing green lifestyles

• strengthening scientific, entrepreneurial, civic and digital competences to better serve the environment,

• to make local communities aware of the need to save depleting natural resources and to protect the environment

• to create a platform where young people and youth workers can improve their knowledge and skills, learn new tools for non-formal education,

• to learn about other countries' actions and experiences in the field of environmental protection and eco-living.

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List of Participating Organisations

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1. 1 INSTYTUT WSPOLPRACY REGIONALNEJ Poland

2. 2 COMITATO D'INTESA TRA LE ASSOCIAZIONI VOLONTARISTICHE DELLA

3. PROVINCIA DI BELLUNO Italy

4. 3 TARCZYNSKA MONIKA Poland

5. 4 EUROMEDITERRANEAN EXCHANGE, VOLUNTEERING, EVENTS Morocco

6. 5 AL-EMAD ALKABEER FOR TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT CO. Jordan

7. 6 L ASSOCIATION EURO-MEDITERRANEENNE DES ECHANGES, VOLONTARIATS, EVENEMENTS Tunisia

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Duration: 01-02-2022 – 31-01-2024