Reducing Food Waste through Youth Work Practices (KA153-YOU)

This KA153-YOU training course focuses on how youth work can contribute to reducing food waste at local level through practical and realistic interventions. The project targets youth workers and youth-oriented NGO staff who want to move beyond awareness-raising activities and strengthen their capacity to design applicable local actions together with young people.

During the training, participants will work on food waste as a local policy and community issue, analyse their own contexts, and co-develop small-scale pilot intervention drafts that can realistically be tested after the activity. The focus is on local applicability, youth participation and learning-by-doing, rather than producing general tools or abstract action plans.

We are looking for partner organisations from Holland, Norway, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal and Romania, actively involved in youth work, community-based activities or youth participation. Partner organisations do not need prior expertise in food waste projects, but should be motivated to link environmental challenges with youth work practice and local action. Organisations with experience working in different local realities, including urban or resource-limited contexts, are especially welcome.

The selected countries represent diverse policy environments and implementation capacities across Europe. This diversity is essential for meaningful peer learning and for testing whether locally designed youth work interventions on food waste can be adapted and applied in different contexts.