This project DEEP-T aims to explore with our young participants what are the ecological and climate crisis, and how to deal with them in a socially just way;

You will have the opportunity to discover relevant topics such as the EU Green Deal, degrowth and zero waste. Moreover, you will engage with practical activities such as permacutlure or art production as tools for the social change. Once acquired, the theoretical and practical tools, you will use them for the creation of new ideas and projects. The week long program will be intense, no doubt, but don’t despair, we will have time to know each other and enjoy yourself.

The conceptual frameworks that will guide this learning experience are “social ecology” and “ecological literacy”. Social ecology is all about redesigning the interaction between humans, environments and living world in a just, sustainable and imaginative way. Ecological literacy is fundamental to make sense of the economic, political and ecological processes as interconnected (to start diving into this macro-topics right away, look at this introductions). [put links for introductions]

The week will be divided in 4 phases:

1) discovering: the activities under this group focus on understanding key concepts such as the various crisis, EU Green deal, get to know each other and the place where we’ll live.

2) engaging: this phase is all about experiencing; be it thought visiting of the local grassroots projects, or the collective elaboration of the learned concepts.

3) transforming: it’s about taking acquired tools and connections and using them to create something, in our case new projects to further our ecological and social values.

4) evaluation: means activities to critically asses what worked, what didn’t, dealing with conflict.

To understand better how this phases will take concrete form in the project, take a look at the complete program of the seminar [put link program].

This projects wants to be welcoming and inclusive fore everyone, for this reason we adopted the safer space policy, which simply is about the behaviors that we want and don’t want during the project. That we highly invite you to read it [link to safer space policy].

This youth exchange project aims to open a space where the youth empower and educate each other. Doing so, helps to build a stronger EU citizenry and voices critical engagement with the EU Green Deal and its objectives.