From ideas to real world impactWe design and implement sustainability projects across Europe combining education, innovation, and collaboration to create meaningful change.
We work with partners, institutions, and communities to transform ideas into impactful initiatives
that inspire action and drive long-term change.
37 projects implemented | 72 countries | 1381 participants engaged
In our changing world, sustainability in projects is more important than ever. In order to make sure that our projects are truly sustainable, we use an approach that balances the environmental, social and economic aspects of project-based working to meet the current needs of stakeholders without compromising or overburdening future generations.
If sustainability is planned in as a key requirement from the outset, it can’t be traded or forgotten. For this reason, we are building sustainability into the vision at the very start of the project and our team is using KPIs that will not allow us to fall into the greenwashing trap.
The RISE UP project aims to support Higher education (HED) professionals in cultivating these transformative skills by offering practical tools and resources directly applicable in teaching.
Consequently, educators across all levels will gain the capacity to adress the dual challenges of transformative climate action and climate anxiety.
The project will adapt the GreenComp framework (European Commission, 2022) for young adult university education, operationalizing it into a "Transformative Climate Resilience Eduation Framework (GreenComp) and Educators Toolbox" through a transdiciplinary approach that incorporates design thinking methods, ecopsychology, traditional ecoligical knowledge and physcholofical strategies
Through a series of hands-on upcyling workshops, participants were invited to transform old garments into new, wearable creations like tote bags, accessories, or refreshed clothing pieces. The workshops also encouraged experimentation with unconventional materials such as festival banners and tent fabric, helpign participants build confidence and explore new techniques.
Hosted in welcoming community spaces and guided by sustainbility-minded facilitators, the workshops promoted practical skills, reduces textile waste, and inspire climate-conscioous living.
Partners: OUR SHIFT (Denmark)
This mobility project offered fifteen high school students a unique opportunity to develop transversal, linguistic, and digital skills through an immersive experience in Copenhagen.
By stepping outside their comfort zones, students engaged in hands-on learning and cultural exchange, deepening their understanding of envorimental sustainbility, social inclusion and innovation.
Divided into five thematic groups, participants explored key topics - ranging from climate action and digital transition to youth entrepreneurship and citizenship - each linked to real-world sites and practices in Copenhagen.
The experience combined personal growth, academic development, and professional orientation, culminating in group presentations that contributed to school credit.
The project fostered collabation, critical thinkig and global awareness, preparing students for active participation in a sustianble and inclusive future.
This workshop series explored how entrepreneurship can move beyond profit-driven models to support a regenerative, socially just, and sustainable future.
Grounded in Post-Growth and Degrowth Economics, the sessions equipped participants with tools and mindsets to critically examine traditional growth narratives, design circular and inclusive business models, and foster collaborative, purpose-driven innovation.
Each workshop blended theory with practical learning and could be attended indenpendently or as part of a full journey torward reimagining entrepreneuship for systemic change.
Partners:
Degrowth Copenhagen (Denmark)
Sustainbility Advocates (Denmark)
The GreenGEN project aspires to empower youth workers and organizations with the knowledge, tools, and innovative approaches necessary to engage young people actively in adressing necessary to engage young people actively in adressing environmental issues.
By enhancing the quality of youth work, promoting recognition, and bridging research and policy, our project aims to contribute to a sustainable and environmentally conscious future while fostering active citizenship and youth paartcipation in adressing global challenges.
Partners:
- Association Diemal (Spain)
- 2030 Builders - Sustainbility Software (Denmark)
Beyond is a board game that teaches sustaninbility through gamified learning.
Players face enviromental challenges, make impactful decisions, and collaborate to solve real-world problems.
The game blends fun with education, inspiring players to adopt sustainable practices and raise awareness about our planet's future
Partners:
- Outcreate Media (Romania)
- Cuiz Game Design (Denmark)
The "GreenComp" enterprises" project aims to develop the skills and compmetences of entrepreneus and startuppers in sustainable entrepreneurship, boosting them to create their sustainable enterprise, enchancing the production of eco-friendly products.
This will be achieved by the creation of innovative learning materials and the implementation of hybrid trainings.
Partners:
- Italian Chamber of Commerce in Denmark
- MateraHub (Italy)
- Magnetar (Cyprus)
- Inzeb (Greece)
- Sensus (Sweden)
- Oecon Group (Bulgeria)
Refashion for Good project strives for empowering teenagers with the 4R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rethink) philosophy of life through fashion with the double focus of environmental and social impact.
Objectives:
1. To empower teachers with methods and tools to activate themselves and students torwards 4Rs practices in fashion
2. To empower students with competences towards embedding a 4R way of living
3. To nourish RfG ambassadors to trigger change in the community
Partners:
- NNY (Denmark)
- CESIE (Italy)
- Associació Animacción Arteterapia (Spain)
- STIMMULI FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (Greece)
- Diapolitismiko Gymnasio Evosmou Greece (Greece)
- FRAME (Poland)
Our proposal focuses on three essential components: a manual of best practices in the green economy, a targeted online training program for youth workers and an analysis of the local green economy to update the training program to be most relevant.
Objectives:
- Enhance the knowledge and skills of youth workers in supporting young people in their green career paths.
- Increase awareness of the importance of green jobs for young people among youth workers.
- Improve the readiness of young people to enter the workforce in green careers, leading to increased employment in the
- Strengthen the local economy by employing local talent in green jobs.
Through the IA4SE project, the teachers, environmental educators and students (ages of 10-15) are taught about environmental education and climate change.
We want to increase their cognitive capacities and gain attitudes and behaviours.
For this purpose, teachers and educators aim to prepare digital content with environmental experts and create cross-border digital environmental education materials.
This digital content will be innovative and support hte active participation of students.
Partners:
- Klimaparken (Denmark)
- Karabuki Toki Cevizkent school (Turkey)
- Roma Burgenland school (Austria)
- Ion Ghica school (Romania)
Digitech is an 18-month Strategic Partnership aiming at developing a new mobile application as well as a platform for collaborations between:
- NGOs Associations
- Social entreprises
- and entrepreneus
in creating partnerships and developing projects with a positive climate impact.
Objectives:
1. Helping organizations and training providers to develop climate-focused projects.
2. Helpign educators by connecting them with technologies tehy acn use to measure their carbon emissions.
3. Developing new software measuring carbon footprint.
Partners:
- Base3 (Italy)
- NorskKlimanettverk (Norway)
- AEC (Romania)
Objectives:
1. To develop professional skills of the staff of SMEs with a speical focus on environmental sustainbility;
2. To support SMEs/BSOs in self-assessing their environemtal needs, and reduce their impact;
3. TO increase capacity building of SMEs and BSOs and better adress their staff needs and synergies with VET providers;
4. To develop guidelines for SMEs and all stakeholders in their sustainbility transition;
5. Create aware, sustainable and connected learning and workign communities
Partners:
- Base3 (Italy)
- Synthesis (Cyprus)
- Ynternet (Switzerland)
- Open Impact (Italy)
- Italian Chamber of Commerce (France)
Our project aims to boost participants' awareness of "environmental values and sustainable delopment" through "art and creativity", forstering behavioural changes in consumption habits for individual sustainable development
Objectives:
To encourage participants to adopt sustainable consumption habits, raise awareness about environmental protection, promote eco-friendly choices, increase sensitivity to environmental issues, and inspire creativity in recycling and upcycling while enhancing knowledge in these areas.
Partners:
- World Climate School (Norway)
- Fatti D'Arte (Italy)
- Yenice Highschool (Turkey)
- Centro Politecnico Lumbier (Spain)
This project aims at raising awareness amongst young people on issues such as plastic pollution of the rivers and seas and exhcange goods practiced between countries with high relevance such as Denmark adn Romania
Objectives:
1. To identify 9 good practices
2. To develop awareness-raising tools
3. To develop awareness-campaigns
Partners:
- GreenKayak (Denmark)
- Asociatia Sustine (Romania)
Objectives:
1. Enhance the circular ecnomy spirit amogn the new generationan.
2. Assist in teh implementation of the Circular Economy Action Plan.
3. Enhance the entrepreneuship spirit among youngsters and assist on the common goal for sustainbility.
4. Train both young people and trainers working with the youth, upon a Circular Framework on Entrepreneuship.
5. Develop a certification scheme for the people trained.
Partners:
- The Common Ones (Denmark)
- UNICERT S.A (Greece)
- Learning Seed (Greece)
- IED (Cyprus)
Through the development of practical instruments and the exchange of best practices from across the EU, ITW strives to strengthen the educational offer for adult education providers in the field of outdoor and environmental education.
Results:
1. Guidance for adult learners on how to undertake outdoor education.
2. Colleciton of movies made by students
3. Transnational training progrma for adult learners
Partners:
- Stitching Future of the Amazon (Netherlands)
- APEC (Romania)
We traveled to Glasgow for the COP26 to implement our Geopolitics workshop with a group of participants representing 25 green organizations from all over the world.
We traveled to Glasgow for the COP26 to implement our Geopolitics workshop with a group of participants representing 25 green organizations from all over the world.
We attended a lot of events and lectures at COP26 and interviewed the speakers while also meeting various climate heroes with very inspiring perspectives.
Partners:
- Worldview Impact Foundation
- NorskKlimanettverk
- Earthbanc
ECOSS was a chance of learning, discussing, analysing and empowering both youth workers/educators and youngsters regarding environmental based issues.
ECOSS was a multi-activity that involved a Training Course and a Youth Exchange.
Objectives:
- Equip youth workers to educate young people about envrionmental and climate change awareness.
- Train youth workers on sustainable environment and climate education for youngsters.
- Enhance initiative in youth workers to promote environmental sustainability and climate awanreess.
- Teach youth workers Digital Storytelling techniques.
- Eanble youth workers to co-create educaitonal animations films with youth.
ECOSS was a chance of learning, discussing, analysing and empowering both youth workers/educators and youngsters regarding environmental based issues.
ECOSS was a multi-activity that involved a Training Course and a Youth Exchange.
Objectives:
- Test methodologies/tools from the TC with young people.
- Educate young people on environmental and climate change issues.
- Encourage participants to be Eco-ambassadors within peers and communities.
- Boost participants' initiative and acative citizenship
Objectives:
1. Providing youth workers with knowledge and dskills related to sustainbility, focusing on environmental sustainability, recycling economics, sustainable fashion, and food practices
2. Creating a platform for youth workers to exchagne best practices in sustainbility.
3. Enhancing their understand of sustainbility's broad impact on all aspects of life.
4. Equipping youth workers with social media skills for promoting sustainbility and ethical living.
Partners:
- ASOCIACIJA TAVO EUROPA (Lithuania)
- ACD La Hoya (Spain)
- ATIC (Romania)
- AAC (Portugal)
- ASSOCIAZIONE SOS EUROPA (Italy)
CLIMA was a chance to exchange experiences and best practices, analyzing and inspire youth workers on whatCLimate CHange is all about and how to use Sustainbility Sicence for empowering individuals.
Objectives:
1. To provide youth workers with knowledge, regarding different issues and aspects of Climate Change and Sustainable Consumption.
2. To stimulate youth workers' sense of initative aimed at raising awareness and educate youngsters regarding environmental sustainbility and climate change.
3. To provide youth workers with knowledge and skills on Digital Storytelling.
4. To provide youth workers with knowledge and skills to foster a process of co-creation between them and the direct youth target.
Partners:
Some of our founding members participated in the CLimate KIC summer journey.
The EIT Climate-KIC Climate Leadership Journey is an extracurricular challenge-based programme that prepares master sudents, post-graduates, and young professionals to lead the trnasofmration that society needs.
The programme runs every year from April to December and empowers future professionals to become a force in creating a net-zero and climate resilient world by developing future oriented skills and capabilities in participants.
Countries: Norway, Finland, Hungary
Participants: 40
Partners:
- Climate KIC
- Central European University (Budapest)
- NTNU (Trondheim)
- University of Helsinki
Our members participated in the UN Climate Conference of Parties in Katowice.
During the event we participated in various panel discussions, workshops, public lectures and other side events.
We implemented a workshop focused on climate myths and climate models with a group of 25 youth workers and trainers interested in enhancing their skills related to climate communication.
Participants: 25 teachers and trainers
Location: Katowice (Poland)
Our members participated in the implementation of the first Copenhagen Climathon.
It was 24 exciting, challenging and productive hours with around 30 participants from all over hte world taking part in debating climate challenges and deloping ideas and solutoins fto promote more climate-friendly behaviour among citizens.
The challenge:
How will Copenhagen motivate behavioral changes in our citizens to become climate smart through the use of data-driven services?
The focus for the Climathon challenge was particularly on mobility and climate-friendly ways of moving around the city, as this is central to Copenhagen Municipality's plan to be CO2-neutral in 2025.
Partners:
- Climate-KIC (Denmark)
- Copenhagen Solutions LAB (Denmark)
Our members have implemented our first Climate & Cocktails event in Bologna.
With a crowd of 21 participants interested in learning more about hte climate impacts, our colleague Giulio offered a great introduciton to climate models, climate myths and cliamte adaptation strategies.
The event ended wit hthe participants enjoying cokctails while discussing new ideas, projects and future partnerships.
The aim of the project was to prevent burnout at work and raise resilience by deloping toolkits for SMEs staff, management staff, SME owners to help them to forecast burnout (develop coaching and counseling methods and tools) recognize the warnign signs, to take stpes to get balance back and ti change peoples' approach to a balanced life, to improve working conditions, reduce the cost of burnots and stress.
Main projects reulsts developed during the project lifetime are:
1. Framework about burnout and resilience
2. Assessment to explore and recognize burnout and resilience
3. Assessment to explore and recognize burnout and resilience
Partners:
- Obelisk NV (Belguim)
- INOVA CONSULTANCY LTD (UK)
- MateraHub (Italy)
- CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DE CALCADO (Portugal)
Objectives:
1. Develop leadership skills,soft skills and social skills by working with school students coming from smaller towns in the area of Lower Silesia
2. Contribute to the deepening of intercultural awareness among paertciipants and among the local community, increasing the sense of European identity.
3. Raise awareness about volunteering and opportunities within the EUropean voluntary service.
4. Developing social skills, porlbme-seolving with local communities, and their activation.
Partners:
- Asociatia Pro Vobis (Romania)
- Associação Spin (Spain)
- POLITISTIKO ERGASTIRI AYOIN OMOLOYITON (Cyprus)
- AMSED (France)
Two of our members volunteered alongside 40 other European volenteers during the Bristol EUrpean Green Capital.
The aim of the EuropeanGreen Capital Award is to support and motivate European cities to improve hteir envorionment by award those that are making active and innoative efforts to achieve a more sustainable and healthy einvironment.
Partners:
- Bristol Fish Porject
- Cabot Institute
- Change agents UK
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