When: 23-30 August 2016

Where: Ecological centre Toulcuv Dvur, Prague, Czech Republic

Who: Youth and Environment Europe

Project description:

The project idea came from YEE's campaign "The Right to be(e)" that is ongoing for three years now. With this training course we wanted to learn and develop more tools of creating successful environmental educational campaigns, as well as share experience among the organisations who took part in campaigns such as "The Right to Be(e)". The project's activities aimed to improve YEE's and member organisations' campaigning skills by learning about what an educational campaign is, how to plan it or how to motivate young people to participate.

Aim and objectives:

Aim:
To explore and develop the competences in organising environmental educational campaigns.

Objectives:

• To share experience of organising international and local campaigns
• To gain the general knowledge and overview about organising educational campaigns (strategies, fundraising, grassroots campaign, long-term planning, team work, etc.)
• To explore the topic of youth participation and ways of attracting young people to join campaigns
• To explore environmental educational tools

Partners:

• Youth and Environment Europe (Czech Republic)
• EDEN Center (Albania)
• "Yeghvard" Youth Ecological NGO (Armenia)
• FYCA (Armenia)
• Gutta-club (Moldova)
• YBA (Armenia)
• YRS (Serbia)
• Ecovillage (Armenia)
• A.D.E.L. (Slovakia)
• United Societies of Balkans (Greece)
• Georgia Youth Eco Movement-SAEM (Georgia)
• OPE (Portugal)
• FOJ-Aktiv (Germany)
• Ajde Makedonija (Macedonia)
• Balta Daba (Latvia)
• AYA (Russia)

Contact person: If you want to know more about this project, please contact Natalia Luchko: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Follow-up: 

Booklet "Be(e) the change"

Infographic "10 things you can do to help the bees"

You can read more about the training course and each day in this detailed summary: 

Video from the project:

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