Sustainable Youth. Young Youth Workers Creating Sustainable Communities.

Background The project has been conducted by three countries which are working in the area developing good practices for young people. This collaboration addressed these needs by the application of this project: 1. Long term partnership between 3 countries: The project created new partnership and professional knowledge level to 3 organizations to lead other projects related to SDG. Because of the harmony between teams, it has been decided to sustain this partnership by writing other projects. 2. SDG Hubs: SDG Student / Youth Hub model was brought to the project from the Turkish Team. Spain and Poland harmonized the ideas with their own dynamics and established their own hubs. By the end of the project, as we aimed, two more SDG Hub were established. 3. Experience of the activities related to each SDG: Working on each SDG brought a new level of our competencies and implementation area to the partner organizations. 4. Learning more about Erasmus+ Projects: The project is the first Erasmus project of the Turkish team and the first KA2 project of Spain. In this respect, it brought more experience and competence in project management and Erasmus+ projects to two different teams in 21 months. Objectives Goal 1: Learning more about SDG. Three countries organized activities simultaneously related to the SDGs. We believe that young people can play an important role to increase awareness of SDGs among their communities. Goal 2: Opening SDG Hub in two countries Turkish partner of the project is an active Student Hub in their own city, Kayseri Turkey. As SDG Student Hub, they aim to disseminate the idea that young people raise their voices on issues that concern the whole world and discuss what they can do together. Besides they are organizing activities and they show other communities what can be done by young people in terms of SDGs. This method gave the inspiration to the Spanish and Polish team to work on SDGs, and motivate and mentor young people to learn more about SDGs and being part of such a community and act together. Goal 3: We also aimed to create an impact by consideration of increasing awareness for SDGs, especially individually, locally, and regionally. Goal4: The project has a role as a first KA2 project for Spanish and Turkish team. So these teams have learned more about Erasmus+ partnership and application process. Implementation All activities that groups implemented were listed in the annual plan. 4 mobility and 3 transnational meetings as planned, at least 17 local activities, City Game in Łódź and in Spain, SDG Mini Festival including an SDG Exhibition Local picnic for local organization in Łódź to promote the project. SDG Student Hub members joined “Choose to Challenge” (theme for International Women's Day) and Earth Hour via social media. SDG Student Hub held 4 webinars on SDG 5 and 6 with eminent professionals. Helping to facilitate two activities at the university organized for children on SDG 4,9 and 11 Promotion of the project to municipality Alhaurin de la Torre SDG Exhibition in Spain with 8 roll-ups, in hospitals, municipality, high schools and youth centers. Dissemination Talks on the SDGs in 3 high schools Campaign to promote women's health in Alhaurín de la Torre Collecting basic foodstuffs for people with limited resources Plastic bottle recycling workshop with children and the local community in Malaga Beach cleaning and rubbish collection with local community in Malaga Duplicating several activities in Chad and Senegal Taking participation of the Polish participants, the organizations in order to support Ukrainian Refugees Achievements Our booklet is a summary of our work created to disseminate the results. It focuses on each SDG and serves as a guide composed of achievable daily life goals/activities, as promised in the application. It contains information regarding our mobilities and best practices that were chosen among our many local activities. Our aim was to present the activities we did as a template for readers to inspire and apply. It ends with our suggestions for each SDG including relevant resources and activities that can be done as individuals and communities. Dissemination Videos: Since day one, we have shot videos of our journey, and in the last mobility, we shot reel videos to create more visually rich outputs. In those videos, we asked participants to introduce themselves and answer some key questions that specify their journey. We aimed to understand what our participants learned during this project and how would they apply their knowledge of the SDGs to their lives. SDG Hubs: By the end of the project, Polish and Spanish participants took the example of the SDG Hub model from Turkey, and adapted it to their culture and dynamics. The project has taught young people the fundamentals of being a voluntary youth organization and how to sustain it.