EUTEENS4GREEN Projects

Through this project, we seek to introduce to youth in the mining communities of Hunedoara both theoretical and practical concepts of sustainability, renewable energy and what the future holds for them.\n\"For many people in Hunedoara, mining has run in the family for generations, being a viable professional path for youth. The current global need to gradually phase out the use of fossil fuels in favour of cleaner energy sources is impacting the local youth on multiple levels. A professional career option is disappearing, seeding confusion about the identity of the community. At the same time, in some communities in Hunedoara (e.g. Certej), pockets of youth informally organized to protest against the establishment of new mining projects.\n\nWe believe youth in mining communities currently suffer the angst of not being able to be part of a mining past and the inability to see an alternative future. At this point their mind is most receptive to change and their attitude is the most suitable to be part of creating an alternative future for their communities.\n\nOur aim is to support youth in 3 mining communities in Hunedoara county to envision how could their community be part of a coal-free, clean energy, and sustainable living, through an educational project based on four components:\n\n1. Green Energy - 5 workshops on the environmental impact of various methods of producing energy, including thermal, nuclear, and renewables;\n\n2. The concept of sustainable homes-what are they and how community navigates towards sustainable living? (2 workshops);\n\n3. Cross-generational debate, within the close community (family, friends, teachers, community representatives-even of the authorities), wherein the youth will take the above topics in their community via a concept called;\n\n4. World Cafe (tables with 1-2 speakers each, people can move from a table to another);\n\n5. Youth transformation in young media-documenting the program through an online newsletter sent via my organization’s platform, and a newspaper printed and spread within the community.\"

\"A community with a mining past will be exposed to an educational project meant to support them envision their future as part of a green energy world\nPeople of different ages - youth and the elderly - will benefit from a softer mediation between generations, encouraged, in a safe space and through structured interaction, to debate their future in a post-mining world\n\n\nWorkshops participants: 40-60 young people aged 15 - 24\n\nAudience of published materials: 1000 young people aged 15 - 24 exposed to the results of our program\n\nCitizens participating in the cross-generational debate: 40 seniors\n\n2 workshops about the impact of thermal power plants on the environment and other forms of pollution\n\n3 workshops about alternative energy sources (hydropower, solar wind power, nuclear power)\n\n3 workshops about sustainability concepts - the idea of self-sustainable houses\n\n1 newspaper and 4 newsletters published\n\n1 showcase events shaped as a World Cafe\n\nIntellectual products - newspaper and newsletter - will become testimonies of the people thinking about and acting on green transition, available also to those that were not part of the program.\"

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