CEYOU

Presentation

The CEYOU project – Circular Economy for Youth – aimed at promoting, engaging, connecting and empowering young people around the circular economy as a means to deal with the dangers to the environment and of climate change.

Project co-financed by the ERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union, 2019-2021.

THE PROJECT

The project aimed to empower them to take positive actions and initiatives within their local communities and to develop networks, as well as exchange practices at local, regional, national and European level.

At the same time, the CEYOU project aimed to promote the quality, innovation and recognition of youth work as a power for social and economic change within Europe through focusing on the concerns of young people and developing formal, nonformal and informal learning around those issues and concerns.

Activities

The project outputs include the development of guidelines for the establishment of permanent fora for dialogue between youth organisations and local authorities to promote circular economy practices, the development and implementation of training programmes and activities for young people in the field of the circular economy, Open Educational Resources (OERs) for young people to support the occupational profile of a circular economy youth facilitator, and of a web application to guide young people in setting up initiatives around the circular economy.

ACR+ led the production of the first project output, namely the guidelines for the establishment of permanent fora for dialogue between youth organisations and local authorities to promote circular economy practices. The guidelines were developed through desk research on current literature by project partners and then tested through the organisation of local fora in Italy, Wales, UK, France, North Macedonia and Greece.

ACR+ also shared its expertise on circular economy with the partnership and work on the creation of OERs and the development of the web application.

Partners

CEYOU's project leader was Pontydysgu Limited, Bridge to Learning - Educational Research (UK), and its project partners were:

  • ACR+, Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management (BE)
  • ACP, Active Citizens Partnership (GR)
  • UCSA*, Ufficio Commune Sostenibilità (IT)
  • Y-E-N, Youth Express Network (FR)
  • CID, Centre for Intercultural Dialogue Association (MK)


* ACR+ member