Urban Garden 2.0

Background The European Green Deal, underpinned by a new Sustainable Europe Investment Plan, must deliver significant and rapid reductions of greenhouse gases by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050, while also curtailing the loss of biodiversity and cutting pollution from plastics, particulate matter, toxic wastes, and other sources. This transition must address the environmental objectives laid out in the SDGs, but it must also promote economic development and be fair. Partners of this project agreed that youth in general, youth leaders, workers and representatives of civil society have to play an important role in European Green Deal implementation and their potential has to be strengthened. That is how idea of Strategic Partnership ‘Urban Garden 2.0’ between the youth organisations from Hungary, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands and Sweden was born. Analyse of scientific literature and political documents show us importance of the topic but analyse of practical materials and work experience of youth workers identifies lack of systemic approach for SDG's development. Real life youth protest and actions shows that youth are not enough empowered to work for sustainable our future. Objectives The project’s specific aims were: - to raise awareness about youth urban gardening and environmental challenges and climate-change; - to develop competences needed for a sustainable approach to life among youth; - to develop methodology for acquiring urban gardening skills; - to test innovative practice from the project’s countries by implementing them in the base of the project ‘’green platform’’; - to develop a youth urban gardening platform that meet current needs of youth, youth workers and youth leaders (e.g. save resources, grow green, opt for sustainable food and mobility choices); - to strengthen young people's sense of initiative, notably in the social field and to support their communities giving instrument to start a new step from Protest to Action. Implementation Project’s elements: 1. Three management meetings: a kick-off meeting – on-line, a mid-term meeting – online, an evaluation meeting – on-line. 2. Development of two intellectual outputs: 1) Youth urban gardening concept 2) Youth urban gardening platform 3. Four multiplier events (in Sweden, Netherlands, Hungary, Italy). Achievements There were two main results of the project: 1. Youth urban garden concept included many creative, ecological, sustainable and economical forms of planting and gardening. 2. Youth urban gardening platform that included: (https://csermely.org/urban-garden/) - seed swapping (exchange of exceed of seeds between individuals) - a possibility of adopting green areas of the city - urban gardening (balcony gardening, community gardening, compositing) and other related information that we researched and developed during the project.