This document outlines a project to promote and empower youth engagement with the circular economy at local, regional, national, and European levels. The project will establish local forums and action plans, exchange best practices, and provide short training programs and open educational resources through a mobile application. The goals are to empower youth to take positive actions within their communities and develop networks to address environmental dangers and climate change. Outputs will include a report for policymakers and youth leaders on sustaining circular economy processes, as well as local action plans.

1. Circular Economy
for Youth

2. 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

3. Local Forums and Action Plans

4. Exchange of information and
best practices

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

6. open educational
resources

7. Mobile application

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.