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The project is implemented in Navodari, the locality in the Constanta metropolitan area with the highest share of young people from the total population (34%), but where statistics show the lowest degree of their involvement in local environmental decisions. ECOvocacy represents the vision of the Constanta Red Cross and consortium partners for involvement of young citizens in community life and the decisions which impact them, in a system of partnership and open collaboration: civil society – citizens - local authority. The project will take action through a staged system of empowerment of young people, following the proposed activities: Awareness, Knowledge and Involvement. ECOvocacy responds to the component of civic involvement of citizens in the field of environment strategies at European level - Green Deal Action Plan, national - National Environmental Strategy 2030, local - Navodari Sustainable Development Strategy 2015-2020. The project aims to achieve a functional model at local level for consulting citizens on policies and decisions concerning environment and sustainable development of small/medium sized localities, simultaneously with training and information actions for them. The developed model will be incorporated at the departmental level by civil society partners (organizational capacity) and will be subsequently replicated at the level of other small localities in Romania. The direct beneficiaries of the project are 1100 young people aged between 14 and 35 from Navodari and the metropolis area of Constanta. The project partners represent all parts of the local community: town hall -local authority, Navodari High School – education, Youth for Sustainable Development-civil society and Circular Ways Norway - social economy structure. They will be part of the newly developed model of trans-sectorial local body that will creat synergies between citizens, local public authority, civil society.