Nature is all around us

"""Nature is all around us ""aims to contribute to the environmental education of young people through an active citizenship based on the values of European democracy and based on the value of sustainability and efficiency in the use of resources. The development of environmental education in young people has as purpose motivating them to be proactive social elements in paradigm shift environmental and Eco-development. Has as its purpose the training of young people for future actors of social change. Objectives:-Building capacities of new generation of youth workers and youth leaders to prepare and implement quality international youth activities in Western Balkans and programme countries. -Promote the education and environmental responsibility- Promoting training for intercultural dialog, active citizenship and social inclusion - Promote non-formal education as a methodology of professional and social training;; - Promote the involvement of the community in discussion and debate on the European youth - To raise young people’s awareness on environmental issues; - To share knowledge and experience about new methods of environmental education; - To inspire youth to practice new methods in the field of environmental education; - To promote healthy behaviour among youth; -To educate local people how to treat their waste in the most Eco-friendly way .The project brings together 8 partner organizations from Western Balkans and programme countries,Partner organizations themselves have expressed a strong interest on this theme of the project. The theme reflects the reality of WB countries affecting directly young people working on youth issues, also other relevant EU countries that are part.Having the opportunity to train youth works/leaders/activists on the concrete themes, and equip them with tools on how to fight gender based discrimination and promote inclusion and tolerance, would be an added value to the work of each partner of the consortium. The partners of the project do have a need and a will to take an active role in addressing gender issues and having trained their staff/youth workers/leaders/activists would allow them to be more advanced and more experienced in the field. The objectives of the projects will be achieve through 3 mobility activities - a training course (in Albania), two youth exchanges (in Albania) which will gather in total of 90 young people. Further visibility of the project, dissemination of its results and outputs will be achieved through large-scale final youth event, that will gather all partners, participants and other youth organizations."