Circular Economy
for Youth

promoting, engaging, connecting and empowering young people around the
circular economy as a means to deal with the dangers to the environment and
of climate change. The project aims to empower them to take positive
actions and initiatives within their local communities and to develop
networks and exchange practices at local, regional, national and European

Local Forums and Action Plans

Exchange of information and
best practices

Short ‘training programmes’
including informal learning and
activity based learning

open educational
resources

Mobile application

Forums will involve representatives of: youth
associations, students associations, NGOs and civil
society organisations, Local Authorities and youth
councils, social entrepreneurs

Sustainable production schemes (products-as-
services business models, eco-design, sharing
economy business models)

Sustainable consumption lifestyles (tackling food
waste, consumer-producer cooperation to support
local loops, neighbourhood composting
practices)

Waste management (make recycling and recovery
more attractive than landfill and incineration)

Waste as a resource (empowering repair
and re-use, anaerobic digestion of
organic fraction, industrial symbiosis)

One of the results of this work will be a report aimed at local
policy makers and youth leaders on how to replicate and
sustain those processes as a formal output. Other outputs
will be local actions plans for the circular economy.