Summer Schools aim at the international youth exchanges is to target student youth and young people under 35 who are interested in environmental protection or are activists of the environmental movement of Ukraine. Preference for participation in the program is given to young employees and volunteers of Ecosphere NGO. The team of participants consists of 5-7 people.
Every year, such schools are held in one of the European countries, where teams of young people from other countries come to participate. Working language of Summer Schools is English. The topics are diverse: eco-pedagogy, energy efficiency and RES development, elements of permaculture in urban space, methods of composting green and food waste in cities, urban and landscape design, and more. The school curriculum contains a compulsory cultural program: getting to know the cultures of the countries where the participants came from. Many excursions, workshops, hands-on activities, and discussions.
Area of activity: Western, Central and Eastern European countries (Germany, Serbia, Austria, Finland, Macedonia, Ukraine).
Purpose: exchange of experience with young people from different European countries, acquisition of communication skills, volunteering and leadership, motivation for active participation in the environmental movement of their own country.
Results:
- Summer School of Ecopedagogy in Germany (Hannover, Bremen).
- Summer School on Ecopedagogy in Ukraine (Uzhhorod).
- Summer School on Energy Efficiency in Serbia (Kragujevac).
- Summer School “Elements of Permaculture in the Upland Space” in Ukraine (Uzhhorod – Lower Village of Khust district).
- Summer School on RES Development in Serbia (Kragujevac)
Project partners: EU / Erasmus +, JANUN (Germany), Östereich Büro Lemberg.
