Last LTCP European Youth Conference

In 2009, the Brazilian Ministries of Education and of the Environment invited all UN Member States to take part in a large-scale international cooperation process: the Let's Take Care of the Planet International Conference of Children and Youth for the Environment, which was held in Brasilia in June 2010. The Conference set global socio-environmental change as the common central theme to be debated by all the nearly 350 participants. At the same time, the organization Monde Pluriel, based in Grenoble (France), coordinated the French delegation's participation in this Conference as well as a network of partners in Europe, giving birth to a European dynamic aiming at building young European's knowledge on socio-environmental issues in their regional context and to strengthen collaboration among young people around Europe. Back from the international Conference in Brasilia, Monde Pluriel organized the submission to the European institutions of the international Let's Take Care of the Planet Charter. In November 2010, a delegation of five young Europeans went to Brussels and handed the Charter over to the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy.

 

This event was a unique opportunity to value the voice of youth on sustainable-development issues at the highest level of the European authorities. Under the coordination of Monde Pluriel, a joint European dynamic has been in effect since 2010. In May 2012, following local, regional and national conferences organized in several European countries, Monde Pluriel has organized the 1st European LTCP Youth Conference at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels and the 2nd European Conference, in Brussels, May 2015.

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Monde Pluriel, wishes to emphasize the importance of the dynamics being more collaborative with other partners motivated to contribute to the methodology and/or organizational support in order to represent the diversity of the network and to share the
responsibilities. Thus, it was decided that Monde Pluriel would work in partnership with ASPEA in the framework of the 3rd European Youth Conference which will take place in the region of Lisbon (Portugal), in 2018.

 

Our global project leading to the European Conference has six main objectives:

 

• Raise awareness on socioenvironmental issues;

• Provide understanding of how the local and global issues are linked by comparing the realities of the different countries (cross-cultural dialogue);

• Reflect on individual and collective responsibilities in view of committing to sustainable societies, in the present and/or the future;

• Strengthen the youngsters' action capacities, including those with fewer opportunities;

• Bring about understanding on how public institutions work, and their complexity, through dialogue with local, national and European elected representatives;

• Strengthen European citizenship; Promote active citizenship, social inclusion and solidarity.

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