Entrepreneurial Environmental Education

With percentages above 90%, young people claim to be concerned about the environment (UNEP, GlobeScan Survey and INE), but this fact is not reflected in environmentally responsible behaviour (Álvarez and Vega). Furthermore, many environmental education activities have focused exclusively on environmental or ecological issues, without promoting understanding of the causes of the problems, reflection, critical thinking, without encouraging the protagonism of the learner and his or her capacity for reflection-action. Young people must be educated and empowered to create and implement their own projects, activities and/or initiatives based on sustainability and environmental awareness. This is why we request this project, responding to the following needs: -Young people are aware of the importance and impact of their actions on the environment; -Youth professionals are trained and have the necessary resources and tools to train young people and act as agents of change for environmental and sustainable development; -Young people take the lead and contribute, in the first person, to positive change in society.

-To improve the key competences of participants and youth workers to develop actions that contribute to promote environmental education and sustainability; -To develop higher quality youth activities and/or projects with young people, especially those with fewer opportunities, in the fields of social entrepreneurship and environmental education; To create new educational tools to strengthen sustainability and environmental awareness in young people who want to carry out their own initiatives, activities and/or projects; -To exchange experiences, good practices and methodologies on environmental education, sustainability and entrepreneurship in the youth field, between organisations and professionals from four European countries; To create an international network of organisations, active in the youth field, working to promote environmental education and sustainability applied to youth entrepreneurship, in order to promote cooperation and innovation between Programme Countries.

The main activities implemented have been: Coordination meeting in Spain; Analysis of the situation on environmental education in each country; Identification and selection of good practices; Identification, selection and mapping of stakeholders; Meeting between coordinators and experts in Norway; Comparative analysis on environmental education tools; Meetings with stakeholders and young people in each country; Diagnosis of learning needs; Study visits in Lithuania and Spain for three youth professionals for each partner organisation; Design and creation of a practical guide with tools for strengthening environmental education applied to youth entrepreneurship; Workshops at local level with young people; Design and creation of educational videos addressed to young people with tools, resources and things to take into account when starting their own initiatives, activities and/or projects; Creation of a compilation eBook of the project; Creation of a compilation video; Four multiplier events (one in each country) to officially present the main products (guide and videos); Final evaluation meeting between partner organisations in Italy.

The main concrete results of this project have been: -Improved competences of the participants; -A practical Guide for youth professionals on environmental education applied to youth entrepreneurship in 5 languages; -8 educational videos (pills) with practical resources and tools to strengthen sustainability and environmental awareness among young people; -Comparative analysis on environmental education programmes and tools for young people that we have added as an annex to the eBook compilation of the project in 5 languages; -An eBook compiling the activities carried out, the experience of the organisations and participants and the visual resources of the project in 5 languages; -A video summary/documentary of the project; -A website; -Reports and other learning, training and informative materials created.