Initial Information

Main Idea

GICE is a project which will bring together 40 youth workers (9 organizations from 4 youth workers each organization in each training and 4 trainers/stakeholders) to enhance mainly their entrepreneurship skills and environmental awareness. It is a fact that youth unemployment in Europe is high, limiting the opportunities young people must develop themselves and their competences. Moreover, Environmental downgrading is something concerning European Union and other countries. Also, as we can see in all over Europe discrimination, refugees that are coming from everywhere in Europe, racism between them religion and national discrimination, all these are coming to people through the discrimination also of the environment so all these we will try to make them common for all European young people. Main aim of GICE is to contribute to the development and evolvement of young people from Europe while diminishing the environmental impact of human activities by enhancing the Green Entrepreneurship among young people and facing the problem of the discrimination also between people and people with environment.

Circular Economy and Green Innovation

Managing the life cycle of natural resources, from extraction through the design and manufacture of products, to what is considered as waste is essential to green growth and part of developing a resource-efficient, circular economy where nothing is wasted. Smarter design allowing products to be repaired, re-used, remanufactured and then recycled again should become the norm.

It's good for business, citizens and nature. The European Commission promotes resource efficiency, encourages eco-innovation, provides tools that can help you recognize green products and supports eco-friendly, innovative businesses.

A greener economy means new growth and job opportunities. Eco-design, eco-innovation, waste prevention and the reuse of raw materials can bring net savings for EU businesses of up to EUR 600 billion. Additional measures to increase resource productivity by 30 % by 2030 could boost GDP by nearly 1 %, while creating 2 million additional jobs. It also benefits the environment and reduces Europe's greenhouse gas emissions.

The Europe 2020 Strategy is the Commission's strategy for smart, inclusive and sustainable growth. The Commission actively supports businesses, administrations and consumers so that together, we can turn the Union into a resource-efficient, green, and competitive low-carbon economy. This is one of the three objectives of the 7th Environment Action Programme. To get growing again and create new jobs, while contributing to the global Sustainable Development Goals, Europe cannot afford to waste this opportunity.

The Circular Economy package can help us achieve green growth for Europe. Find out more about the many benefits of a circular economy and the measures the EU is taking to develop it.

Specific objectives of the project GICE are:

Promotion of Green Innovation among youth workers
Enhance the sense of initiative, responsibility and entrepreneurship
Reduce youth unemployment, increase of youth participation in the labour market
Promote Non-Formal Educational methods for Green Innovation projects among the partners organisations.
Increase European Dimension between youth workers and partners organisations
Raise awareness about environmental pollution
Promote international collaboration
Work through discrimination of environment so to be able to reduce discrimination on people

Target Groups

Direct target group of the GICE will be youth workers from the organisations who are working in the environment and youth unemployment with low entrepreneurship and employability skills. In total 36 youth workers (16 of them will be with fewer opportunities) will participate in the project taking part in both trainings and trying to get out of the box with their ideas. Target group was chosen after recognition of the need of developing the skills of youth workers and youngsters in order to cope with youth unemployment which is high importance for Europe and also to have innovating ideas about saving our environment and helping with the reduce of Global Warming and climate change in a circular economy whole plan for all the groups of youth workers that will be created.

Indirect target group is European Union citizens who will be informed from the participants, through the activities they will carry and the green projects or companies they will create, about environmental issues in their countries and Europe.

Description of Main Activities

Online APV meeting and Initial Training of the organisations

Actually in the whole project there will be 3 main activities, the first activity it will be an online APV meeting and training where all the partners will discuss about the whole project and all thinks that maybe there are from this first meeting and our online meetings (we will have every month an online meeting with all our partners so to solve any problems that are coming as the project is going) and also in this meeting we will sign agreements with organizations that participants will be the same in both trainings and also our partners will sign an agreement with their members so all participants to be tha same in both trainings.

A2-3 Activity: Training in Greece and Cyprus

First training in Greece will enforced them and make them to understand that they have the power to continue with there ideas and then second TC will be there as something to say to them that they have to move to go on with their ideas so some of the ideas to become green projects or future business and some of them to get real in life in the future. Following, 3 months of work and international collaboration will take place with the participants turning their idea of a green company or project into action. Continuing the second training will take place in Cyprus. During the two Trainings knowledge, skills and abilities of the participants will be improved through methods of non-formal education. After each Training an evaluation will be held from the participants as well as one after the end of the project both from participants and partners. The coordinating organisation will also evaluate the project based on the aims, objectives and other indicators set from the implementation of the project is expected to significantly improve the entrepreneurship and employability skills of at least 36 youth workers. Furthermore 9 green companies or projects (4 youth workers in each company from different organisations so to share their ideas among their organisations) will be created from the participants limiting the environmental pollution and increasing the environmental awareness of the public. Another result of the project would be the information of thousands of European citizens about the impact of human activities in the environment. The sustainability of the project will be safeguarded through the updating of the webpage and social media with news about entrepreneurship and environment as well as about the progress of the 8 green companies or projects the participants will create.