“If you put away your phone, you are open to embrace so much more beautiful things happening around you.” – Tim How is the imagination of giving up not just your smartphone, but all digital devices for ten complete days? And how does it feel to experience this with strangers in a community? Courageous young…
In April 2023, a gathering of women from Balkan countries was held in Stara Planina as part of the Balkan Earth Sisters project supported by the Reconstruction Women’s Fund, hosted by Zeleno Doba – Center for sustainable growth and development. We gathered with the aim of getting to know each other, establishing contacts and sharing…
At the end of March 2023, our team of youth workers from across Europe met in the ecovillage Hof van Moeder Aarde (Garden of Mother Earth) in the Netherlands for the sixth Transnational Project Meeting (TPM) of the current Yes to Sustainability Partnership co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme. The meeting focused on the ending of…
From 17 to 24 June 2022 the Cr-I-TO-WE-ty youth exchange took place in the Torri Superiore ecovillage involving 24 participants from 4 countries (Italy, France, Slovakia and Spain), accompanied by 4 group leaders and a facilitator. After a long period of separation and physical distance due to the pandemic, the participants were able to explore…
The aim of this project was to co-create between the participants a safe space of trust, authenticity, love, sensuality, mutual support, respect, where we could follow our inner truth and experience ourselves in a group.
A PERSONAL REPORT I could talk about my digital detox exchange in Germany all day but couldn’t possibly capture everything that I have experienced. It all happened so unexpectedly and, of course, I didn’t read what it was all about when I signed up. The only thing I knew for sure at that moment was…
Between December 12-17 we gathered at Sieben Linden to attend an Erasmus+ training course about the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) program. When 28 people from 11 different countries come together anything can happen. Snowy afternoon walks around Sieben Linden, inspiring and open-hearted people, dedicated and experienced facilitators, sauna and the cool down dips in the…
Last week, the Yes to Sustainability project team met in Arterra Bizimodu for mentor training in the frame of the ongoing Yes to Sustainability Partnership co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the EU. The goal of the training was to empower youth workers within the project team to support and mentor young people who engage…
Let’s Cooperate 2.0: The Way for an Inclusive and Sustainable Society was the second edition of a Youth Exchange organized by the association COE – Centro Orientamento Educativo within the Erasmus+ Programme with three other european partners: Las Ninas del Tul, Stichting Liberta Care and Logos Ngo.Between the mountains and lakes, participants coming from Poland,…
The Sustainability in Youth Exchanges Brochure is a fantastic and open-source document that aims to help young people organize their first Youth Exchange or Mobility sustainably. The Yes to Sustainability team, in collaboration with Nextgen put a lot of care, attention and hard work into creating the document, and it is such an amazing resource…