The project’s general objective is to tackle the environmental and climate crisis, increase social inclusion, increase life-skills of marginalised youth and improve wellbeing through the holistic permaculture approach that focuses on building resilience in communities, answering to the needs of young people. We aim to use Social and Nature Permaculture as a theory for learning. Social permaculture focuses on the principles of permaculture design, extrapolated onto a societal level i.e. it looks at creating resilient communities were people understand their worth in society, what their role is in proving this, how they can learn from nature to have a strong social ecosystem.This project will tackle environmental, social integration, digital skills, and financial planning and green entrepreneurship and most importantly solidarity and care for others, all in one comprehensive project.

• YOUTH: Promoting active citizenship, young people’s sense of initiative and youth entrepreneurship including social Entrepreneurship;
• HORIZONTAL: Environment and fight against climate change;
• HORIZONTAL: Inclusion and diversity in all fields of education, training, youth and sport.

1. Develop youth key competencies in social participation, care for the environment and green entrepreneurship skill, especially for youth with fewer opportunities, through the use of client-centred non-formal education focusing on social permaculture training and permaculture gardens;
2. Improve wellbeing and social inclusion of young people through contact with nature and using non-formal education as a mode for engagement;
3. Give young people the tools and enhance digital skills to use online platforms and social media for marketing;
4. Develop knowledge and competencies for youth workers on regenerative social permaculture, nature permaculture and how to use permaculture gardens for life-skill development for youth, through a curriculum;
5. Give youth workers the necessary tools through a toolkit with resources and a pedagogical strategy to create permaculture gardens with disadvantaged youth;
6. To create the possibility for youth and youth workers to continue with their professional development;
7. Capacity build and disseminate youth work practices and knowledge, specifically with working with specific cohorts disadvantaged youth, between youth workers as well as with non-youth work organisations such as environmental NGOs.

• Develop a Training Course on Nature and Social Permaculture for Youth Workers & Youth;
• Create the possibility for youth and youth workers to continue with their professional development;
• Create a Nature and Social Permaculture Toolkit – Multi-session programme for Youth Workers, Workbook for Youth & Green Entrepreneurship Manual+ activities implementation and dissemination;
• Develop youth key competencies in social participation, care for the environment and green entrepreneurship skill, especially for youth with fewer opportunities, through the use of client-centred non-formal education focusing on social permaculture training and permaculture gardens;
• Improve wellbeing and social inclusion of young people through contact with nature and using non-formal education as a mode for engagement;
• Give young people the tools and enhance digital skills to use online platforms and social media for marketing;
• Develop knowledge and competencies for youth workers on regenerative social permaculture, nature permaculture and how to use permaculture gardens for life-skill development for youth, through a curriculum;
• Give youth workers the necessary tools with resources and a pedagogical strategy to create permaculture gardens with disadvantaged youth.