The project is aimed at increasing public awareness on the issues of international development cooperation and on the 17 Sustanaible Development Goals. The six NGO partners have a long experience in implementing Global Citizenship Education actions in the civil society of their area, with a special focus on schools. The needs assessment carried out by the NGOs showed that the environmental issue is the one in which young people are mostly involved, but it also highlighted a widespread and deep discomfort among young people concerning the perceived gap between the willingness of young people to act on an issue that they consider crucial for their future and their actual possibilities to act, due to the lack of tools that can really affect the transition process or the impossibility of accessing them. The need to train and guide young people to an in-depth knowledge of environmental issues therefore emerged strongly, but even more so to provide them with concrete, realistic and scientifically consolidated operational tools capable of guiding the behaviour of young people who want to actively engage in the transition process. With the project, the NGO network has extended its partnership to include a series of technical actors able to provide the knowledge and tools needed to understand with scientific evidence which aspects of the daily life in the territories can change in order to contribute effectively to the ecological transition process. The specific objective of the project is to improve young peoples knowledge of the anthropogenic impact on the environment and to foster their involvement, starting from school contexts, in ecological transition paths coordinated between schools, public institutions, the Third Sector and civil society. This will contribute to the broader objective of developing and strengthening a concept of citizenship, understood as belonging to the global community, contributing in a pragmatic way to individual and collective change for the creation of a more sustainable and fair world. The project will develop educational and gamification paths to train secondary and high school students, as well as teachers and educators, on the issues of environmental sustainability and transition. During the two years of the project, global citizenship education and education for sustainable development will be integrated into the curricula of the 24 target schools, in the training of 120 teachers and in the training and assessment of 2,500 students. At the same time, scientifically reliable technical tools will be developed to identify aspects and behaviours on which action can be taken to reduce the carbon footprint of schools, public and third sector organisations and civil society. Thanks to specific training and with the use of scholastic paths for transversal skills and orientation, it will be possible to put young people at the centre of the calculation process of the schools’ and organisations’ footprint in their area, involving them in the elaboration of proposals to favour the transition process. Working tables will be set up in which the students proposals will be assessed with the help of technical staff who will promote a process of design thinking that will lead to the shared definition of possible and effective transition paths for each of the six areas in which the project operates (Rome, Turin, Bologna and Padua, Gorizia, Catania, Trento and Verona). At the end of the project, at least 30 institutions in the six areas will have adopted structures of environmental reporting. At least 500 students will have participated in scholastic paths for transversal skills and orientation that will have involved them in calculating the carbon footprint of schools and institutions and in drawing up proposals for the transition. At the end of the project, the calculation tools developed will remain available for schools and institutions that want to use them, and a final publication will be produced. read more close