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PATH: Empowering youth through hiking and civic action
PATH aims to boost youth participation in hiking associations, creating mutual value: associations gain fresh perspectives and skills, while young people benefit from healthy activities and civic engagement.
Aims of the tool
The Erasmus+ Sport project PATH – Promoting Activism Through Hiking has a clear objective: to engage young people aged 18 to 30 in hiking activities, while at the same time strengthening their participation in associative life and civic engagement.
PATH aims to:
1. Strengthen the communication skills of hiking associations and federations, making them more open and closer to young people.
2. Experiment with co-design in outdoor sports, an innovative methodology that makes young people active participants in the creative and decision-making process.
3. Enhance Long-distance European Trails (E-PATHS), transforming them into spaces for meeting, participation, and sharing through ideas and campaigns conceived and implemented directly by young people.
Description of the tool
The first result is the PATH methodology , a tool (tested at the national and international level) aimed at engaging young people through co-design.
This document outlines the PATH methodology, which includes strategies and resources for engaging young people in sports associations and federations through outdoor sports activities, promoting meaningful and long-term youth involvement.
Our goal is to help hiking (and outdoor) associations create more effective, inclusive, and relevant solutions by ensuring the voices of young people are heard and valued.
The document will be soon available also in IT,LT and ES on the project landing page: www.fiemediacenter.it/path
Available downloads:
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/5143
This tool is for
Young people (18-30), volunteers of sport clubs, youth workers
and addresses
Youth Participation
It is recommended for use in:
Strategic Partnerships
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Consortium of the "PATH - Promoting Activism Through Hiking" project (Erasmus+ Sport Project Nr 101183333.
in the context of
Results of the research activities implemented in the framework of the project: PATH - Promoting Activism Through Hiking, Nr. 101183333
The tool has been experimented in
Transnational Training and National piloting
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Trekkify Sport Association (on 8 October 2025)
and last modified
2 October 2025
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