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Description
We focus on activation, empowerment and participation of young people in decision-making related to climate
change and on rasining acceptance of youth participation in decision-making from public administration and public.
The subject of the project is implementation of practical adaptation and mitigation measures on local level based on
inciative of young people in cooperation with local government and community. 220 persons and 20 decion-makers
will be involved, 10 activities will be implemented (local climate action plans and local measures), guidebook will be
created and disseminated.
Summary of project results
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Thanks to the project, we were able to expand the School for Sustainable Life program to include the topic of climate change. The applicant''s team, led by the chief
methodologist, compiled a new methodology focused precisely on climate change. There is a lot of interest in the topic of climate change among schools, which we
confirmed in the fact that 2/3 of the schools registered for the program voted This topic. The remaining schools opted for a sustainable theme. We have tried thanks
to the project that the topic of climate change is very useful for community projects, when thanks a participatory approach at the local level spreads awareness
of the importance of the topic among the local community as well as decision-makers.
In the program, we emphasize above all a participatory approach. For us, this means that young people, i.e. pupils in schools, ideally become the driving forces. Teachers do
they become their partners or, even better, simply observe the pupils'' actions and supplement their initiative with their comments. From the results of the evaluation, we know
that the level of participation is closely related to motivation of pupils and their activity. Some schools managed to keep the project in the hands of the children, some less so.
For us implementers, this is a challenge for the future, how much more to bring educators closer to the topic of participation, so that they understand it, can practically imagine
what it means.
The project clearly had a positive impact on the quality of relationships, the deepening of communication skills, mutual understanding and the ability to agree between pupils
on individual schools.
The project also had positive effects on the applicant''s employees, as they were trained in a number of topics thanks to the project.