Empowering Green Dreams, Creating Bright Futures – Join ‘Youth for Earth’ 2025 and Shape Tomorrow Today!

The Youth for Earth (Y4E) Campaign, a flagship initiative of the International Conference on Sustainability Education (ICSE), is getting into its sixth version in 2025, persevering with its mission to empower younger leaders as brokers of change for a sustainable future. Y4E serves as a dynamic platform to amplify youth voices, showcase progressive initiatives, and foster a worldwide group dedicated to environmental stewardship. Building on the profitable mannequin of earlier campaigns, Y4E 2025 will emphasize actionable, path-breaking initiatives pushed by younger minds.

The Y4E 2025 marketing campaign is led by the Mobius Foundation and The Climate Reality Project India & South Asia. With annually, the marketing campaign is galvanizing extra and extra younger minds to contribute to the larger journey of sustainability. This 12 months’s marketing campaign builds on the success of 2024’s theme of “Greening Education for a Sustainable Future.” Y4E 2025 can be strategically designed to align with the overarching objectives of the seventh ICSE, focusing particularly on the theme “Sustainability Education for Green Jobs”.

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Objectives

The sixth Y4E Campaign goals to:

• Promote Actionable Projects:
  Encourage and facilitate the event and implementation of action-oriented sustainability initiatives led by youth.
• Build Green Skills:
  Foster the event of technical abilities, problem-solving talents, and environmental literacy associated to inexperienced jobs and sustainability.
• Enhance Leadership: Empower younger individuals to turn into leaders and advocates for sustainability inside their communities and past.
• Showcase Innovation: Provide a platform for younger innovators to current their concepts, initiatives, and options to a worldwide viewers.
• Foster Collaboration: Create a robust community of younger sustainability leaders, selling collaboration and partnership.
• Support SDGs 4, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, & 15: Advance high quality schooling, sustainable practices, and environmental conservation.

How the Youth Can Participate

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Y4E 2025 welcomes participation from the youth from India & South Asian international locations to hitch within the following classes:

• Junior (School college students of sophistication Eighth-Twelfth; 20 years higher age restrict)
• Senior (Colleges/Institutes/University college students of commencement or post-graduation; 30 years
• Teams should include a minimal of 5 members, with a delegated mentor assigned by the Principal/Head of the Department (HoD).
• Project Focus: Projects ought to prioritize bodily implementation, ground-level work, scalability, and constructive social impression.
• Registration: Mandatory registration of all groups is required with ,no registration price.
• Project Timeline: Undertaken between Feb 2025 to July 2025 can be thought-about, ongoing initiatives initiated after October 2024 may also be eligible.
• Social Media: Participating groups can be required to share their mission updates and progress on social media platforms utilizing campaign-specific hashtags and tagging designated social media handles. A gathering in direction of this is able to occur as your initiatives get chosen.

Theme

Please remember the fact that initiatives must be centered across the overarching theme “Green Jobs for Youth: A Bright Future in the Making”, inside which, some sub-themes are recommended as beneath:

• Green Jobs and Skills: Promote inexperienced abilities and job creation inside communities.
• Circular Economy Initiatives: Encourage waste discount and useful resource effectivity.
• Renewable Energy Solutions: Drive renewable vitality adoption and effectivity.
• Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: Address meals waste and promote sustainable practices.
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation: Help communities adapt to local weather impacts.
• Nature-Based Solutions: Restore ecosystems and shield biodiversity.
• Waste Management: Ensure protected dealing with and disposal of waste.

Note: These are recommended matters and are talked about for ideation solely.

Report Submission

Project Submission Deadline: July 2025 (Specific Date can be Announced)

Selection Criteria

Projects can be evaluated primarily based on the next parameters:

• Relevance:Alignment with the theme and addressing related sustainability challenges.
• Applicability & Replicability:Practicality and potential for replication in different contexts.
• Innovation:Creativity and novelty of the proposed options.
• Climate Positive Impact:Tangible contribution to local weather motion and environmental sustainability.
• Future Potential:Long-term sustainability and scalability of the mission.
• Social Impact:Contribution to social welfare and group growth.
• STEM Integration:Successful integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics abilities.

Important Dates

• Registration Open Date: twenty eighth January, 2025
• Registration Deadline: thirty first May, 2025
• Project Submission Deadline: July 2025 (Specific Date can be Announced)

Application Deadline

• thirty first May, 2025 (prolonged date)

Recognition and Awards

1. Cash Prizes: Top 5 initiatives from each Junior and Senior classes will obtain money prizes.
   • 1^st Prize – INR 50,000
   • 2^nd Prize – INR 30,000, and Commendation 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th rank holders can be awarded with a money prize of INR 25,000 every.
2. Certificates of Achievement and Entry Passes: Winning initiatives and their crew members can be awarded Certificates of Achievement together with chosen entry passes to attend the seventh ICSE 2025.
3. Media Promotion: Winning initiatives can be highlighted and promoted by Mobius Foundation and The Climate Project Foundation India by way of social media platforms and web sites.

*The copyright of successful initiatives shall lie with Y4E and the content material can be utilized additional by the Y4E crew for promotion and different functions.