GENTES: Generando ENTornos Emocionalmente Sostenibles

COVID-19 brought the world into a crisis and exposed the vulnerability of our ways of life, especially among the young, making their whole world and its scant certainties shake, generating a great feeling of bewilderment, loneliness, loss or anxiety. We highlighted the importance of contact with nature and valued what is important: care, collaboration, living with less, and we strengthened the use of digital communication. This reality made us reflect on our functioning as an association, and on how necessary it is to continue training ourselves to have a greater impact on the lives of young people. We see this crisis as an opportunity to start building a new future based on good living and sustainability, but at the same time we have seen ourselves to a certain extent unable to do so in a situation so uncertain. Under the motto "we must not return to normality, since normality was not normal", we want establish a work with another organization that, based on the exchange of knowledge and practices, consolidates our activity with the young people and fulfill the need to train and acquire skills to work with young people, to deepen and have a greater impact.

- Strengthen the entities participating in the partnership. - Improve the creative and environmental education skills of the participants and partner entities through the exchange of experiences. - Generate an environment for debate and discussion in which to share good practices. - Improve the ability of participants to influence their local contexts. - Consolidate a working group with local youth who undertake actions of environmental activism, approached as a collective challenge and a source of learning, empowerment and reflection. - Make participants aware of the impact of our model of life and consumption. - Promote skills, values, attitudes and skills to generate positive and transformative responses, becoming agents of change towards a more sustainable life. - Strengthen personal identity to enhance the sense of belonging, with the group and with their environment. - Make the Erasmus + Program known through its dissemination during the project.

We implemented all the activities expected on the proposal: - Launch, search and selection of participants. Dissemination work through email, posters and social media. - Partner meeting in Cyprus. Exchange of knowledge. We learned how our partner works and we established collaboration and project coordination strategies - Weekly meetings. We provided training and educational tools to participants in the environmental and social field. - First weekend meeting. Integration with nature. Active and experiential meeting, within the framework of the natural environment, to strengthen links and learn dynamics. - Second weekend meeting. We visited sustainable and inspiring projects, ideas and initiatives as an alternative to our daily options. We did a interpretative walking. -Training prior to the event with Fabrika Kollektiv, providing them with tools in order to integrate environmental values ​​into their projects. - Project coordination. - Preparation of dissemination materials - Dossier of activities in three languages. - Final Event, open to the general public with a multitude of activities that included the objectives and knowledge of the project.

- 14 people have received 85 hours of training in socio-environmental resources to be applied with other groups of people. - More that two hundred people attended the final Event and participated in the activities, receiving environmental awareness - The two partner entities have increased their knowledge and resources in social, environmental and artistic tools to apply within their organisations. - Three references documents have been published: a full actitivies dossier to disseminate and execute resources and tools of environmental education. - Video summarizing the Event. - Graphic material: logo, posters of the project. - Pictures of the activities and sessions. - Synergies and collaborations among entities, and within the participants of the project.