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EcoYouth, youth exchange, Serbia 2022

Project “EcoYouth” gathered young people from 5 different countries – Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Serbia, who lived, worked together and exchanged knowledge, skills and attitudes on the topics of ecology and youth activism.
The project aimed to empower young people with fewer opportunities to become a responsible, critic, active for environmental issues, and a healthy lifestyle in the local and European communities.
Objectives were:
 To empower young people with fewer opportunities from passive behavior to active participation and taking care of an environmental and healthy lifestyle.
 To support youth advocacy and activism within youth empowerment as an outcome in which youth, as change actors gain the competences
 to impact the own lives and lives of other young people and the communities as a whole;
 To experience multi-culturalism through meeting and working with youngsters coming from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
 To become aware of the European community and to use opportunities of Erasmus+ program as a tool for the development of the culture of youth participation in environmental activities.

The project was financed by Erasmus+ Programm.