YSD Participants Take Part in #Councils4ClimateAction
On Saturday February 16th, Dublin City Council held a #Councils4ClimateAction event in The Mansion House. The aim of the day was to encourage the public to visit www.dublinclimatechange.ie and have their say on what local councils should be doing to fight the ever pressing issue of climate change. Not one’s to miss an […]
YSD Programme Launches in Westport
Tonight see’s the first session of our Youth for Sutainable Development Programme launching in Westport, Mayo! The weekly group will be run by Westport Tidy Towns, who are no stranger to ECO-UNESCO having entered last years Young Environmentalist Awards with their wonderful project ‘HAUS’. Interested in bringing the YSD programme to your […]
Thousands of Young People Take Environmental Action Across the Country
Young people from ECO-UNESCOs ‘Youth for Sustainable Development’ Programme, St Tiernan’s Community School Dundrum, and Jesus and Mary College Goatstown help to launch 20 years of ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards. Young people get to work in their local communities as ECO-UNESCO celebrates 20 Years of the Young Environmentalist Awards At a time when young […]
UNESCO ESD Youth Leadership Training
UNESCO GLOBAL ACTION PROGRAMME ON ESD JOINT FLAGSHIP TRAINING PROGRAMME ON ESD ECO-UNESCO Club of Ireland in conjunction with UNESCO, ran the 2 day GAP training on the 21st and 22nd February 2017 for the European region. 27 young people from 10 countries attended. The training was supported by the Irish Ministry of […]
#YSDCarlow Start Their #YEA19 Projects!
Young people across Ireland are getting ready to submit their #YEA19 action project, and our Carlow Youth for Sustainable Development group are no different! Two groups have come up with unique ideas for taking environmental action in their local communities, check them out below.
Green Skills Programme
Green Skills, supported by Accenture, is a full-time 10 week training course that aims to provide young people with the skills, experience and support they need to progress onto paid employment or education. The course is open to all young people aged between 16 – 25 years old who are not in employment, education […]
ECO-UNESCO E-Magazine January 2019
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YSD Dublin Participants Prepare for a Trip to New York
ECO-UNESCO, in conjunction with University College Dublin, is providing an opportunity for two young people to attend, as UN Major Group for Children and Youth representatives, the UN ECOSOC Youth Forum in the United Nations from April 6th to April 8th 2019. To gain a place, Youth for Sustainable Development participants had to give […]
#YEA19: Submissions Now Open!
YEA PROJECT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES PLEASE NOTE: YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL WITH ALL NECESSARY INFORMATION ONCE YOUR REGISTER QUALITY PROJECTS Welcome to YEA 2019. We are very much looking forward to receiving your projects for our 20th Anniversary of the YEA. Our Showcase this year will be […]
Learning 2 Change January Update!
The new year started off great, as we completed training sessions in 31 out of the 40 Irish schools we were funded to focus on, with the remaining 9 already booked in across the next 3 months. We have also completed 6 out of 8 of the student council training workshops and are currently in […]
