Nature Tells Tales

Programme: Erasmus+ (youth exchange)
Project duration: 1 February 2023 – 31 January 2024
Planned dates of the advance planning visit: 28-29 March 2023
Planned dates of the youth exchange: 9-16 June 2023
Venue: Agárd, Hungary (at the Lake Velencei)

Brief description:
Climate change threatens people with food and water scarcity, increased flooding, extreme heat, more disease, and economic loss. Human migration and conflict can be a result. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls climate change the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century. This youth exchange aims to gather young people from 6 different countries to learn and share ideas about nature protection and sustainable development with creative storytelling.

Objectives:
- To help young people understand the process and impacts of climate change; find connections between human behaviour, social and environmental challenges
- To learn together about the sustainable development goals, globalism and human rights from an environmental perspective
- To use creative storytelling methods to address and raise awareness on environmental challenges
- To strengthen European identity, improve intercultural awareness, openness and initiative

Participants’ profile:
- Aged between 18-30
- At least conversational level of English
- Have a strong interest in nature protection and creative storytelling
- May have disadvantaged background: persons with disabilities, economic difficulties, learning problems, young people from less developed rural regions
- Open to new experiences, cultures and people, respect their peers, have proactive attitude

Partners’ profile and responsibilities:
- Civil society organisations working with youth from EU, Eastern Partnership or Western Balkan countries
- Able to delegate a youth worker to the project (both the APV and the youth exchange) as group leader who is older than 20 years old, have experience in youth exchanges and working with young people (as a professional or as a volunteer)
- Able to delegate at least one disadvantaged participant (physical disability, economic or learning difficulties, geographical obstacles)
- Is ready to sign an agreement about the working process, with a special regard to participant selection and preparation, travel costs reimbursement and dissemination tasks

Please send us your PIF and a brief reasoning why you would like to participate in the project in Word format to projects@youthbridgesbudapest.org with the subject ‘Nature Tells Tales youth exchange partnership’.