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Educate, Engage, Act

EUTeens4Green Team

05/05/2023 18:42

💡 Description: The Green Youth Movement wants to engage young people in the green transition through education and workshops. We hope to create a community and inspire young people to turn their feelings into action. In the Green Youth Movement (Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse) in Aalborg, the north of Denmark, we want to engage young people in our region in the green transition by creating a sustainable green network and community. Today we are a smaller active group of people where the majority is 16 – 23 years old. We wish to expand and strengthen the engagement of young people and have a better inclusion of minorities. Therefore, we wish to create events during 2023 that will both educate and activate the participants so more will be able to take action in the climate- and biodiversity crisis. We wish to create workshops and events with talks that attracts a diverse group of young people. We will mainly approach the education by arranging talks, where prominent young voices in the climate debate and experts will talk/debate about climate and how we should and can change things. Overall, the events should show the complexity of the climate crisis but also how to be active in the green transition no matter your interests and earlier experience. The main goal is to show, that the green transition needs everybody no matter study-area to take action and to make the young people more confident in their knowledge. We want to spark the climate debate in our region, as it’s currently not very active and therefore it’s difficult for young people to participate in it and have a saying. Through workshops we wish to engage people more directly. Here the participants will get involved in actions like starting up a local campaign, writing articles to newspapers, creating informative videos, contacting politicians with proposals and wishes about the green urban planning, etc. Overall, the activities will contribute to have young voices speaking up, pushing for a green change and taking ownership of the transition in the region. We wish to create a safe and inspiring space where everybody feels included. The aim is that the participants will get involved in a working-group that will continue after the workshop and work on with elaborating the green transition in the region. In that way they will be trained to create a change in the society. A success criterion is that the participants turn their frustration or fear for the future into actions and experience being part of a community with likeminded. The Green Youth Movement will be the host for all the events and will have a ‘facilitating’ role at the events. "
🎯 Target Group: Young people, who could be motivated to be involved in the fight for climate justice
🌱 Expected Results: Two full-day educational workshops, as well as 3 talks, and an educational movie night. It is expected to have around 20-40 participants at the workshops, and 30-100 participants at the talks. The project will lay the ground for a more active young climate movement in this region by providing knowledge and know-how. This way, more young people will be empowered to create events and be involved in the democratic climate debate, thereby being able to affect politicians and other citizens. It is expected that the project will expand its green community hopefully resulting in more green events arranged by young people in the city. More young people will have the guts to speak their minds and see that their voice is important. It is important for the events to be driven by young people and for these to take ownership of how society is evolving by speaking up about the future we want. Regarding the growth of The Green Youth Movement Aalborg, 'Educate, Engage, Act' expects an increase in the number of participants who attend our meetings every other Tuesday, as well as the number of people participating in and coming to our events. Usually, there are fewer people at the meetings compared to how many volunteers show up at our events – the project expects the discrepancy to remain, though they expect more participants at both the meetings and the events. Increase in followers on our social media platforms. To be able to get more events and articles published in newspapers. The more people they are, the more (and larger) events they can create. Therefore, if they see a boost in our green community, it will boost the events. Furthermore, they do write articles in newspapers that are always published, and they expect to be able to send even more as our movement grows. They also expect that the places where the events are held will want to collaborate again in the future after this project and that they might also want to do something similar on their own. The project hopes that parts of the project could happen annually.
✉️ Contact: mette-jensen1@live.dk
🔗 More Info: https://www.instagram.com/dgub_aalborg/