Cultivating Climate Resilience Through Youth Action
GA number: 2025-1-DE04-KA220-YOU-000353648
Funded by: Erasmus+ Duration: 24/10/2025 – 23/10/2027
Challenge
Across Europe, extreme weather events such as floods, wildfires, and severe storms are becoming more frequent and intense, causing devastating consequences for communities, infrastructure, ecosystems, and local economies. Recent disasters, including the 2024 floods in Spain, Storm Boris in Germany (2024), the flooding of the Wallonia region in Belgium (2021), and Storm Daniel in Thessaly, Greece (2023), have highlighted the increasing vulnerability of European societies to climate-related crises.
Despite ongoing efforts to mitigate climate change and strengthen disaster response systems, many communities still face significant challenges in preparedness, timely information sharing, and coordinated emergency response. Limited public awareness, insufficient training opportunities, and gaps in local resilience mechanisms can increase the impact of such disasters, leading to economic losses, disruption of essential resources, environmental damage, and threats to both human and wildlife safety.
Innovation
Youth Rescue Squad empowers young people to become active contributors to climate resilience by equipping them with the knowledge, practical skills, and confidence needed to respond to climate-related emergencies and environmental challenges. Through training in areas such as risk assessment, emergency response coordination, first aid, sustainable resource management, and community-based resilience planning, the project supports youth in developing both individual competencies and a strong sense of social responsibility. By strengthening preparedness, collaboration, and adaptive thinking at the individual, community, and regional levels, Youth Rescue Squad contributes to building more resilient societies that are better prepared to face the growing impact of climate change and environmental crises.
Action
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
Project Partners
(Greece)
Jugendförderverein Parchim/Lübz e.V.
(Germany)
Coordinator
(Spain)
(Denmark)
(Belgium)