Pan-European School Partnerships

YL EUROPE. Headquartered in Europe, we care a lot about activating youth leadership in Europe. This means we tour Europe, activate schools, map allies and train citizens as YL Coaches who develop Pilot Regions using our methodology. As we set out to create the Europe we love – because the past and current Europe isn’t it, yet – one aspect being the suboptimal difference in economic prosperity, infrastructure, culture and nature between Western and Eastern Europe. A great asset in this context is West-East school collaboration, like in the Cold War era for peace dialog, but now for SDGs, to protect and restore natural and cultural heritage, our little known Rockies, Alaska and Amazonia (that are under grave threat), social business and youth-led tourism. And as Changemaker Student Clubs and Warrior Clans emerge at schools all over the continent – who want to live every teen hero*ine’s dream to meet like-hearted youth during summer break – we also organize YL Summer Camps.

It is a wonderful new opportunity for teachers, mayors and students caring for

• peer 2 peer learning
• project-oriented learning
• protection and evolution of HUMANIST VALUES and EUROPEAN PEACE and GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS
• living SDGs in Action near to home in easy ways
• attention for European challenges and treasures (ignored by air travel expensive tourism centric mass media)
• enabling the school community to get involved
• connecting youth leadership with existing programs, structures and joys
• while enriching these programs through youth leadership and YL Partners

• Exciting encounters
• Exciting shared vision, passion and projects
• Largely student club powered
• Self-organized communication between students becoming friends
• Self-organized encounters as family travel etc

THE BIG NEW THING: STUDENTS TAKE ACTIVE ROLES BY LIVING THEIR PASSION TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD inspired, equipped and coached by their local and global enabling environment of YL Partners 

> Sparking 100x more follow-up action than school partnerships of the past because now there is deper bonds, more purpose, more reasons, for fun, more changing the world, more creative liberties, more magical memories

Peps up a common School Program

Let’s use EXISTING programs, allies and funding programs 

• Teachers understand East-West collaboration
• They understand peace dialog and do appreciate action
• a fresh exciting edge on SDGs

We experience that many instantly respond with WOW YES HOW COOL, because people feel that the common school dialog is no longer inspiring for students and teachers “to get to know people from other cultures” (this happens much via media, today) … they feel there is need for different purpose in this age of multiple crisis.

They yearn to address concerns and make a difference – and with us they can do this.

The Pan-European context offers unique opportunities.

Read with attention below … these are arguments that RING A BELL with mayors and teachers.

MANY ADVANTAGES OVER FAR AWAY PARTNERSHIPS

• no air travel, but overland buses connect Europe at low cost
• no cultural training required, but common values and aspirations
• no danger to one’s life, like getting shot in the U.S.
• solid infrastructure, ease of communication
• quick, self-organized travel, as students, as families

enabling self-organization of diverse follow-up activities, like summer camps, Fair Trade etc.

creating FRIENDLY BONDS between students