EYE - Green Deal Challenges

Green Deal Challenges: The European Youth exchanges Experience

EYE - Green Deal Challenges, project logo

Green Deal Challenges: The European Youth Exchanges Experience (EYE) is a project that unites eight organizations from eight European countries around a common goal: to encourage young people to get involved in the green transition of the Green Deal. To  achieve this, EYE relies on a participatory approach, where learning through experience and concrete action against climate change are at the heart of the project. The project uses a unique and innovative format: 100% green youth exchanges, organized simultaneously and linked by a unifying mega-game. The project runs from December 2025  to November 2027.

Project objectives

  • Raise awareness, educate and promote young people's commitment to the Green Deal through the development of knowledge, understanding and capacity for action (experiential learning) through real-life, concrete situations.

  • Generate change through play, cooperation and collective intelligence, and propose new models not only for youth exchanges but also for European mobility in general.

  • Raise awareness of climate issues and encourage people to adapt their daily behaviour accordingly. Promote the development of green skills and environmental intelligence.

  • Foster a sense of European identity and a desire among young people to act as European citizens and participate in shaping the Europe of tomorrow at their own level.

  • Adapt youth work to the challenges and expectations of young people and improve the skills of youth organisations and youth workers.

Project Activities

  • Development of an educational, entertaining, competitive mega game in the style of an ‘ideathon’, in which young people are the players themselves.

  • For two summers in a row, four green youth exchanges with 25 young people each will take place at the same time in different countries (eight youth exchanges in total).

  • Creation of 48 educational learning boxes (short videos and infographics) and a web app to provide thematic access to the Green Deal, which will serve as the basis for the mega game.

Partners

Pistes-Solidaires (coordinator, France)

ÖJAB (Austria)

 Replay Network APS (Italy)

AMC (Portugal)

Gantalcala (Spain)

USB (Greece)

Fekete Sereg (Hungary)

Allianssi Youth Exchanges (Finland)