YOU-CARE’s general objective is to allow young people examine and assess “eco-anxiety” and move from ecological preoccupation to active participation, while fostering their emotional, pedagogical, scientific, and advocacy skills.
Project objectives
The project’s general objective is supported by the following specific objectives:
- Providing youth-workers and educators the tools and guidelines to help youth facing eco-anxiety.
- Empowering young people coming from different geographical and socio-economic realities to connect and exchange about their experiences with ecological issues, thus increasing their agency and their participation to decision-making processes.
- Gathering information allowing to assess the presence and levels of eco-anxiety experienced by youth in different European countries, as well as the factors contributing to its development, its diverse natures and manifestations, and the coping mechanisms and strategies adopted by youth to manage eco-anxiety and mitigate its effects.
Activities
YOU-CARE is based on 3 interconnected activities:
- A training for youth workers and educators to provide them with the tools and guidelines to help youth face eco-anxiety.
- A set of youthled participatory action research workshops and learning exchanges, in order for young participants to share experiences and think about ways to act.
- A Youth Open Assembly bringing together decision-makers, youth communities, and other civil society players to share the project’s key outcomes.
Concrete results include youthgenerated recommendations for politicians and other co-decided mixed media research results, a video documenting the research workshops in each country, and mid-term/final reports summarizing main findings. Other results include the creation of a space for cross-cultural and cross-sector dialogue around a complex subject, encouraging collective ownership and driving policy changes towards a better handling of climate-change related emotions and their causes.
Partners
Association FOR YOU – Bulgaria
FELCOS Umbria
QUEST – Belgium
VsI Inovatyvi Karta – Lithuania
