From job training, employment and education to sustainability, the environment and community engagement, Interreg Europe projects are tackling the subjects that matter to young people.
2022 is the European Year of Youth. This year, we celebrate our projects making a difference for younger generations.
Among our 258 projects approved during the 2014-2020 programming period, we have 20 projects who have identified good practices relating to young people or have launched pilot actions or activities aimed at them.
These 20 projects’ good practices and pilot actions are on a variety of subject matters, but they fall mainly within three topics: smart, green and social.
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Our top subjects? Raising awareness among school children for a greener Europe and issues around employment, training and job skills.
The subject matters of their good practices are wide ranging. They cover everything from waste reduction (water, food and energy) and the circular economy to respect for biodiversity and daily environmentalism.
Browse through the good practices below and see if they can help you tackle your regional challenge.
"Erre que erre", an environmental awareness and educational school project
It´s a new pedagogical tool focused on circular economy, waste prevention and environmental awareness. It´s used in schools for individual and teamwork.
“Dhor el compostador”, a school composting and environmental awareness project.
An educational initiative to raise awareness of waste reduction and management of the educational community in a public primary school at Épila, Zaragoza.
School awareness about the importance of sanitation and reuse of urban wastewater in Murcia Region
It is a program of school awareness, to highlight the importance of wastewater treatment and reusing, to reduce the current social rejection to reusing products
Our second ‘hottest subject’ is about youth employment and job skills. We have five projects who have identified good practices to deal with this policy challenge:
The good practices mainly touch on vocational training plans and how businesses and universities can cooperate to help students get useful skills and real-world experience.
The Vocational Training Council of Castilla-La Mancha
The Vocational Training Council of Castilla-La Mancha is the social participation body for vocational training. It carries out consultative and advisory tasks.
The DIC is the skills sensibilization and training programme for the youth of the city, that aims to give them a first contact with the innovation ecosystem.
We facilitate true co-creation between universities, companies and students. Future oriented co-creation develops innovation capabilities of the participants.
The Policy Learning Platform has put together two youth-related webinar series:
One on workplace training and another
On youth entrepreneurship.
Our thematic experts Mart Veliste and Luc Schmerber, spoke with partners from the projects FEMINA, InsideOutEU and START EASY about their good practices on the subject.
Go to the news articles below to discover the key learnings, watch the recordings and download the presentations.
The Policy Learning Platform went on a virtual tour across Europe to discover successful programmes that foster youth entrepreneurship! Watch the recordings and discover the key learnings.
In this webinar recording, you'll learn how regions, SMEs and young graduates can benefit from graduate work placement programmes and initiatives.
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What is the European Year of Youth?
The Commission has announced that 2022 is the European Year of Youth. This year, they intend, in cooperation with the European Parliament, Member States, regional and local authorities, stakeholders and young people themselves:
To honour and support the young generation,
To encourage all young people to become active citizens,
To promote opportunities provided by EU policies for young people,
And to draw inspiration from the actions, vision and insights of young people.
DIALOG aims to increase the impact of innovation policies on regional competitiveness through the creation of a model for networking, negotiation and exchange involving all local stakeholders.
MARIE promotes responsible research and innovation in key sectors. By supporting quadruplehelix governance, open innovation and corporate committment to responsibility, the project helps to create smart, sustainable and inclusive regions.
Urban M addresses urban manufacturing by supporting and developing collaborative maker spaces where people from different disciplines work together to produce new products and services.
Inside Out EU fosters the competitiveness of SMEs through new innovative regional policies, helping a larger number of SMEs reach international markets and improve their internationalisation process.
REGIONS 4FOOD aims at promoting the digitisation of the agri-food value chain in order to maximise the growth potential of the digital economy and tackle future challenges in this sector.
BIOGOV uses multi-stakeholder partnerships and participatory governance to improve regional policies for natural heritage and biodiversity conservation.
PE4Trans aims at improving public transport policies by engaging citizens in the process of design and implementation of transport strategies and plans and by changing peoples’ mobility habits and routines into more sustainable ones.
UL2L - UrbanLinks 2 Landscape looks at the entire urban green grid and in particular at the areas between the cities and the open landscape to identify the best locations for newer forms of public land use.
CLEAN will increase energy efficiency in housing and public infrastructure by 4% through technology, open innovation and improved low-carbon policy instruments.
ECOWASTE 4 FOOD helps territorial authorities better address the reduction of food waste in the food chain by supporting eco-innovations through regional and local policies as part of a more global territorial strategy for food security.
IMPACT aims at improving the development potential and opportunities of Natura 2000 protected areas, supporting innovative management and exploitation models which contribute to sustainable development.
AQUARES aims at strengthening efficient water management and green growth by improving the capacity of public administrations and regional bodies to promote innovative technologies and business models for water reuse.
