Handbook with project ideas related to SDGs

Aims of the tool

To provide NGOs and young people with ideas how to implement SDGs in our everyday life.

Description of the tool

On August 12-20, the Youth Human Impact Association organized an international youth exchange "But first, solidarity!" which took place in Warsaw. The project involved 25 participants from five partner countries - Spain, the Czech Republic, Germany, Bulgaria and Poland (but in fact the participants also came from many other countries: Afghanistan, India, Canada, Italy, Romania, Azerbaijan and Turkey).

The main goal of the project was to learn about the concept of sustainable development and global solidarity, what the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are, what their history and motives are, and how we, young people, can realize in our daily life. The participants discussed the implementation of SDGs within the framework of European policies (European New Green Deal, New European Bauhaus) and the importance of global solidarity. As part of the project, participants also visited the Representation of the European Commission in Poland. During the meeting, they learned more about the work of the European Commission, the objectives of the current EC policy led by Ursula von der Leyen, career opportunities for young people in the EU institutions and various aspects of work in EC representations in various Member States.

During the two days of the project, workshops using the design thinking method were held. Participants created ideas for their local initiatives implementing SDGs, learned to create project ideas and design innovations in response to the needs of previously identified audiences, project risk management and new technologies in project management. The project was financed by the European Union under the Erasmus + program

In this handbook, we provide you with project ideas created by participants during design thinking workshops. Each of them is related direclty to one of SDGs.