YouthEnergy - Activating youth potentials for driving the just energy transition in Argentina

State of implementation/results

• The central goal of this project is to empower young people as carriers and disseminators of knowledge on climate protection and just energy transition. To achieve this purpose, it was first necessary to establish strategic alliances with the relevant authorities and to select and involve the technical schools of the three provinces targeted by the project: Neuquén, Chubut and Mendoza. MoUs with the education ministries of these three provinces have been signed which provide the institutional support that is needed in order to work in close collaboration with more than 24 technical schools.
• As part of the project activities, didactic materials and a learning sequence were developed on key concepts of climate change, with a gender-sensitive approach. These materials were adapted from the contents and didactic tools provided by the Office for Climate Education (OCE). Once the Climate Change Manual of the Young Energy project had been adapted and finalized, training workshops for trainers with a gender perspective were conducted in Buenos Aires for the dissemination of the content to provincial referents. The referents' role is to disseminate this knowledge to technical school teachers, who will then implement the didactic materials on climate change in their classrooms.
• Of particular significance was the visit of representatives from the Wuppertal Institute to Argentina. This visit, in addition to facilitating the inaugural in-person meeting with local partners (Siemens and 500RPM Foundations), marked the beginning of the first training of trainers, held on April 4 and 5 2024 in Buenos Aires, and the first training on climate change on April 8 at the Fundación Ecocentro Pampa Azul in the province of Chubut. This opportunity was also leveraged to establish initial contact with relevant stakeholders in the Argentine context, which will be key to achieving the project's future objectives.
• Subsequently, two rounds of teacher training were conducted in each province with the objective of replicating the content of the didactic materials on climate change in the classrooms for the remainder of the school year. The first training session focused on providing an overview of climate change, including its impact on ocean ecosystems. The second training session emphasized the link between climate change and land use, as well as the influence of emotions on climate-related decision-making.
• The objective was to train 48 teachers from 24 technical and secondary schools to develop knowledge that will be transmitted to students on basic concepts and gender dimensions of climate change. The number of participants in all trainings exceeded those expectations, with a high degree of interest and participation in all three provinces. After the trainings, the technical school teachers not only acquired new knowledge to replicate in the classroom, but also received teaching kits with the necessary materials to apply what they learned during the training sessions.

Latest Update:
03/2025