The youth is the key to solve current and future challenges of the world. Within the EU project „DEAL with it!“, implemented from December 2021 until January 2023, their engagement and perspectives will be brought into focus by a consortium composed of ÖFSE from Austria, Artemisszió from Hungary, NaZemi from Czech Republic and EPiZ from Germany.

Living Libraries are one of the participatory event formats of the project and are carried out in all four partner countries. During a living library the students meet „living books“: Activists, politicians and scientists in the field of international climate policies provide their expertise and experience to the students. The „safe space“ of a library provides the opportunity to learn from each other, to reflect and form opinions, perspectives and visions. Living libraries stand for learning processes, exchange and deliberation on equal terms and close to real life.

► Photo Gallery: Living Library Brno

► Video: Jindřiška Polišenská about the Living Library Brno

► Review: Living Library Vienna

► C3-Radio: "Let’s come together and DEAL with it!"

In the course of a joint online workshop and the European Youth Conference in Vienna in the C3 – Centre for International Development youth delegations work on defining and articulating their demands of a vision of a sustainable future. Supported by professional guidance, space for discussion and cooperation they elaborate the „Youth Declaration for a sustainable and inclusive Europe“ facilitated by Graphic Recording. Within a public presentation at the end of the youth conference they present their illustrated Youth Declaration to the public and get feedback from representatives of climate, education and sustainability politics.

► Photo Gallery: Youth conference Vienna

► Video: Let's come together and deal with it!

► Review: Youth conference Vienna

► Review: Presentation of the Deal with it! Youth Declaration

After one year in the project the students finalized their Declaration for a sustainable and inclusive Europe. At a three-day summit in Ochoz u Brna they presented their work to the political representatives Ladislav Miko, David Oplatek, Oldřich Sklenář and Ernst Holzinger. The declaration on social justice, mobility, economy, education and policy making marks an enormous achievement of the students. At this point, they gained the competencies to translate their needs into demands and to collect and articulate those demands in a consensual deliberation process as EU citizens.

► Photo Gallery

► Making-of (YouTube Video)

► Declaration (pdf)

► C3-Radio

During the grand opening of the online exhibition DEAL with it! The Voice of Youth for a Sustainable Future on December 15th 2022 the students guided over 100 international visitors through the collection of their project results. They presented photos, videos, infographics and art works on the topics social justice, mobility, economy, education and policy making as well as the heartpiece of the project, the Youth Declaration for a sustainable and inclusive Europe. The free and indefinite access of the online exhibition guarantees that the dedication and the vision of the students reaches and inspires as many young people as possible across Europe beyond the formal project end of “DEAL with it!“.

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