Mind the CAP - Climate Action Plan

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The mitigation of climate change (CC) and the consequent need for sustainable development (SD) are more urgent today than ever. Young Europeans can be catalysers and leaders of a global shift towards a climate-friendly world, as their incredible transformative power and their ability to convincingly advocate for and take steps in the reduction of the human footprint on the environment can and should be treasured and leveraged for the engagement of the wider community. For these reasons and in line with the European Green Deal and the GreenComp, MindtheCAP aims at fostering long-term and large-scale behavioural change by bringing together young citizens, local communities, NGOs, and other European stakeholders, involving them in a process of knowledge co-creation, awareness-raising, and context-based activism around CC&SD. MindtheCAP will: • set-up and operate a network of living labs for CC&SD education; • co-create, together with target groups and communities, a multidisciplinary competence framework, key competences, and innovative educational approaches, including distant learning; • test and demonstrate the framework in pilot educational interventions; • activate behavioural change through knowledge mobilization; • improve knowledge, skill, and attitudes around CC&SD; • cluster and cooperate with the already existing and up-coming initiatives focusing on CC&SD; • deliver exploitable educational programmes and training material. MindtheCAP will reach these objectives working in 3 phases: • firstly by developing a competence framework, identifying long-term behavioural changes needed in terms of CC&SD and mapping the already existing initiatives focusing on CC&SD in the countries involved, in order to cooperate with them and have a stronger impact; • secondly by testing and demonstrating the competence framework through pilot educational interventions, co-developed and operated within living labs; • lastly by delivering educational programs and toolkits.