Mission
GREENTRACE addresses the gaps of competences of youth workers, sport leaders and environmental educators, in providing effective active sustainable learning to young people.
The need for SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION arises from young people's demand to create innovative, youth-driven solutions to face the climate crisis.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. The European Union cannot be held responsible for them
Greentrace Main Topics
Youth
Developing youth workers’ skills in providing young people with effective learning about sustainability
Sport
Creating an innovative learning approach to sustainability through sport, active learning and outdoor education
Sustainability
Promoting green behaviour among young people by enhancing their skills for a sustainable lifestyle
Project
GREENTRACE is a project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme - Cooperation partnerships in Youth
MAIN GOAL
Develop new approaches of active outdoor education, to promote green awareness and to embed sustainable behaviours among young people.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
a) Support a sport-sustainability strategy, combining a new outdoor education with active approaches in different European territorial contexts
b) Enhance the competencies of youth workers and other operators working with youth, through the development of new designs of sustainable learning in multidisciplinary contexts
c) Improve the effectiveness of new approaches in sustainability education developing new assessment systems in the context of non-formal/informal learning
d) Create an innovative method of sustainable education applicable in different learning contexts
e) Increase youth leaders' ability to foster the inclination of young people to explore as a method of participation, connecting youth to territories and communities
ACTIVITIES
Sustainability Analysis & Methodology definition
Workshops for youth workers and educators
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Testing of new learning approaches
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Results
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Sustainability Analysis Report: study concerning sustainability learning in the frame of a new methodology based on sport, youth participation and exploration
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Assessment Tools to evaluate the impact of the new approaches developed
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Two-level Portfolio of Competences for young people: certifying youth participation in the territories and their engagement in new sustainable behaviours
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Final Methodology Report + Interactive Handbook for youth workers: providing effective methods of sustainability education through sport, active learning and outdoor education
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Youth workers' portfolio: certifying the new competences acquired in stimulating young people’s sustainability skills
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Digital Platform: a network to share resources online, to increase cooperation at European level on active sustainability learning among: youth workers and between youth workers' organisations and other professionals; and young people
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Partners
Centro Universitario Sportivo Padova
Italy​
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Universidad Catolica de Valencia
Spain
Stichting Anatta Foundation
The Netherlands
Budapest Association for International Sports
Hungary
Active Youth Association
Lithuania