YEE’s mission
YEE aims to unite environmental youth non-profit organisations in Europe. Its goal is to mitigate the climate and biodiversity crisis by:
- Raising awareness and building capacity among youth on the climate crisis.
- Enhancing international cooperation and knowledge-sharing among our members.
- Strengthening participation of youth in environmental and climate decision-making processes.
Take a look at the YEE promotional materials.
YEE’s main activities
- Member Organisations Engagement
- Supporting the work of member organisations
- Promoting the exchange of information, ideas and experience among members
- International, European and local projects
- Environmental awareness campaigns and events
- Publications and interviews
- Providing volunteering opportunities for young people
- YEE Working Groups
YEE is a member organisation of:
- European Environmental Bureau
- European Youth Forum
- UNEP (UNFCCC and Convention on Biological Dioversity)
- EU4Oceans
- Generation Climate Europe
YEE History
3rd August 1983
Founded
Youth and Environment Europe was founded as the European regional branch of the International Youth Federation for Environmental Studies and Conservation (IYF) on the 3rd of August 1983 in Stockholm. The YEE office has been located in three locations. The first YEE office was based in Copenhagen.
IYF established YEE with the cooperation of 15 organisations. Three founding organisations are still members of YEE: Faltbiologerna (Sweden), DJN (Germany), and JNM (Belgium).
1986
After the work of a research group on the forest, a new organisation was born from YEE: the European Youth Forest Action (EYFA) that remains active today.
1986
1990
The YEE office moved to it’s second location in Utrecht, the Netherlands to locate it more centrally to the member organisations being part of the network at that time.
1991
As a further subgroup from EYFA, ASEED started to work as a separate network.
1991
1990s
A member organisation from Malta hosted a second YEE office in order to deal with the Mediterranean issues closely.
1998
The third change of the location of the office occurred. This time the medieval stronghold Toulcuv Dvur in Prague was chosen. Toulcuv Dvur is an ecological center that unites a range of ecological, educational and cultural activities. The area consists of eight hectares of land including wetlands around a little stream.
1998
2003
YEE started to host volunteers who help as members of the office team in daily work of the organisation.
2020
After spending more than 10 years in Toulcov Dvur, the YEE office moved again but this time within Prague. Since the beginning of 2020, the YEE Office is located in the beautiful district of Vinohrady, close to the city centre.
YEE became a founding member of the EU4Ocean Coalition and Generation Climate Europe.
2020
YEE aims to unite environmental youth non-profit organisations in Europe in order to enhance international cooperation, increase knowledge about the climate crisis, raise awareness of environmental problems and to strengthen participation of youth in environmental decision-making.
