Project report:
Training of the project GreenTech Youth Catalyst
23 – 30 March 2025
Olomouc | Czech Republic
Project report:
From March 23 to March 30,the Youth Progress team hosted an international training for the GreenTech Youth Catalyst project in Olomouc, Czech Republic. This Erasmus+ cross-border partnership aims to enhance the quality, innovation, and sustainability of youth work across Europe by building capacities, fostering digital and green skills in young people and youth workers, promoting civic engagement and European citizenship, expanding networks by integrating new actors into the Erasmus+ framework, and strengthening international collaboration.
Representatives and youth workers from our partner organizations, @ADRIBS (FR), @OmnisFactum (PT), and @Impuls (RS), arrived in Olomouc to develop initial version of Open Education Resource (OER), exchange good practices from their organizations related to sustainability and use of digital tools, increase their sustainability awareness, work with the European GreenComp model and include it into learning materials for the OER, improve teamwork in national teams and overall partner cooperation.
The Open Education Resource (OER) will serve as a comprehensive digital toolkit for youth workers and teachers. It will provide structured activities and step-by-step tutorials for teaching environmental topics through the GreenComp framework. Activities will include digital tools and activities to bring interactivity to sessions and enhance learning about environmental themes. The OER will contain descriptions of the digital tools and practical guides on how to use them in educational settings. The OER will enable educators to include digital tools into their workshops and so raise environmental awareness and action among young people.
During the training course, youth workers exchanged good practices related to environmental education and implementation of digital tools in their local youth work. @ADRIBS carried out a comprehensive workshop about the GreenComp model (the European sustainability competence framework). @IMPULS closed the first day with Upcycling workshop. Afterwards, every team shared their ideas and materials for the OER and @YouthProgress led workshop sessions on the Cities of Learning platform and Badgecraft, which are good practice to serve as a digital platform to complement offline education in many ways.
In the next few days, all teams worked on developing activity structures for each of the 12 competencies of the GreenComp model – these are the content base for the OER. The structure for the digital Open Education Resource and its content was presented by ADRIBS and commented on the 3rd day of the training. @ADRIBS and @YouthProgress coordinated further work on materials for the OER inspired by the collective wireframing process and storyboarding. They coordinated further work on GreenComp activities, digital tools description and tutorials and translations for all materials for the final OER which is being developed as a website.
Youth workers also visited the city of Olomouc, which is the local centre of the Haná cultural region, but also the Morava historic region. It’s an old city with an impressive history, culture and stories.
On the final day of the training, we dedicated a session to reflection to assess whether the objectives for the training were successfully met. Participants engaged in discussions about their learning experiences and the impact of the activities. Moving forward, we discussed the next steps – carrying out a Youth Exchange in Serbia and further developing the OER before its official launch.
*** The Erasmus+ project GreenTech Youth Catalyst is co-funded by the European Union.
