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“Green Reporters” – 2022-2023

The ‘Green Reporters’ project has been supported by the EU Erasmus+ program (‘Small-scale partnerships in youth’ Action, 2021 Call) for the period 2022-2023. The project is addressed to young people, students in fields related to the environmental and social sciences, young workers or unemployed people, aged 18 to 30, based in Italy and in Greece.

The project aims to train young participants so that they develop skills and competencies in environmental communication, while becoming aware of crucial environmental issues of our times and policy responses. The overall aim is to empower young people so that they develop an active citizenship attitude, actively participating in environment decision-making processes in their communities. The project brings together PERIPLI – Culture e Società Euromediterranee’ acting as the lead partner, an Italian organization promoting the dialogue among Euro-Mediterranean cultures and societies through the analysis of social, historic and political dimensions of European and national politics, along with the Greek organization ‘POLIS – International Network for Environmental Education, having a longstanding experience in the promotion of research, training and action for Environmental Education and Communication, and the creation of educational material on environment.

Online Seminars

Throughout the project a cycle of seven ONLINE SEMINARS, has been organized from September 2022 till April 2023, gathering Italian and Greek young people, and lecturers from several European countries (Italy, Greece, Spain, France, Switzerland).

Naples Seminar

In May 2023, an international seminar in Naples, Italy, has gathered the Italian and Greek participants for a week’s in-person training session.

YouTube Channel

A YouTube channel has been set up to gradually integrate and disseminate the communication material created throughout the duration of the project, lecturers’ presentations and shared material (i.e. environmental content by news agencies, filmography, etc).

Young participants have been introduced to the current environmental challenges and the envisaged policy responses at a European level, and to the techniques of environmental journalism and reporting, by experts in the field, academics, journalists, photo-reporters, as well as by representatives of environmental movements and local authorities. Through an active learning process, based on an interdisciplinary approach and a peer-to-peer learning process, participants have been accompanied to start acting as ‘Green Reporters’, by designing and creating by themselves communication material on environment, presenting their productions to the group, confronting them to fellow participants’ productions, revising and changing them for the better. The project’s productions form a teaching trunk composed by educational material to be used by teachers and environmental educators, while helping to raise awareness on environmental issues among the youth and the general public. As the testimonies by the Greek young participants reveal, the project has helped to enhance participants’ interdisciplinary perspective and enrich their perception on the cross-border dimensions of environmental questions, while the content produced highlights the transnational nature of environmental issues and the European dimension of the responses to these issues.

This video gathers the testimonies by the Greek participants in the project. The project’s final online presentation events have taken place in November 2023, addressed to an Italian audience on November 20th, and to a Greek audience on November 25th (photo gallery here below).

To explore: Ressources & Creations by the young participants in the project.