The Project


Community Challengers is an Erasmus+ Project that combines environmental awareness, artistic expression and entrepreneurship education to empower young people from underprivileged communities across Europe. The project activates young people to learn about the causes and effects of climate change and mobilise their communities to become climate-smart, sustainable and united. It is based on four key dimensions:  

1. Environment: support awareness raising of young people and youth workers about environmental challenges and develop a methodology to address them through arts and entrepreneurship (with a possibility for schools and non-formal learning institutions to use this model).

2. Entrepreneurship: develop competences of young people in entrepreneurship with a focus on sustainability, green skills and stakeholder collaboration (with a possibility for the schools and non-formal learning institutions to use this model).

3. Arts: use the arts as a means of delivering the message to the community to bring about change and as the empowerment tool for young people to get their voices heard and to become agents of change.

4. Advocacy: empower young people to become role models to enable behavioural change for community and individual preferences and lifestyles; influence policies through multi- sector collaboration and involve youth ambassadors for climate action.

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THE LACA MODEL

Activities implemented and outputs created are linked to a learning model which is building the structure of the project:
  
The Community Challengers project is based on the LACA learning model which is composed of 4 main steps and pillars. Those are directly linked to the Intellectual Outputs (IO) of the project:
L – Learn (IO1: Sustainability & Climate Action Handbook)
A – Analyse (IO2: The Community Mapping Toolkit)
C – Create (IO3: The Community Challengers Guide)
A – Advocate (IO4: The Advocacy Tutorials on Climate Action)

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Sustainable Event Concept