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ChangeABLE – Out and about for climate ability

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Project number: 2025-1-IE01-KA220-ADU-000353702

Lead partner: GAP Ireland

Call for proposals:

KA220-ADU – Erasmus+ Cooperation partnerships in adult education 

Call 2025, round 1

Duration: 

36 months

The project: main goals and results

This project stems from the urgent need to address the intersection of climate action and social inclusion, particularly for individuals with disabilities. As climate change poses significant threats to our environment and communities, it is essential to ensure that all voices—especially those often marginalised and most affected by climate breakdown—are included in the conversation and action plans.

The project empowers individuals with disabilities to engage in campaigning and advocacy for inclusive climate action. The project partners will: 

  • enhance capacity through tailored training programs
  • collaborate with local advocacy organisations to design impactful campaigns
  • create spaces for dialogue in identified forums
  • develop resources to support similar organisations supporting individuals with disabilities in needs analysis, campaigning, and advocacy.

Results:

  • Strengthened partnerships among partner organisations 
  • Participants will show increased capacity and resilience in their ability to engage in climate action.
  • Individuals with disabilities will be involved in needs assessments
  • Development of tailored learning programs based on identified needs in each country.
  • Participants will work with advocacy experts to enhance their campaign design and implementation skills.
  • Targeted training and support will significantly improve individuals’ abilities to engage in climate action discussions and advocacy.

Resources and guides

  • A resource guide for developing climate advocacy learning programs
  • A campaign report, recommendations, and guidelines for inclusive climate action
  • A report outlining findings and recommendations for supporting individuals with disabilities in public engagement and advocacy

All reports and guidelines will be published in Easy Language in all three project languages.

Target groups and beneficiaries

Primary stakeholders:

  • Individuals with disabilities (direct participants): will build resilience to climate change, learn to voice concerns, engage in climate action campaigns, and work collectively on climate issues.
  • Individuals with disabilities (non-participants): will have opportunities to join in later phases, benefiting from campaigns and advocacy led by direct participants, improving their lives and those of their families.
  • Frontline care and support workers: will increase their knowledge of climate change’s impact on individuals with disabilities, improving their ability to support clients in climate-related actions.

 

Secondary stakeholders

  • Vocational education bodies
  • Advisory board
  • Associate partners
  • Advocacy and lobbying groups
  • Local authorities
  • Other services for individuals with disabilities
  • Cultural spaces
  • Communities & community groups (e.g., sports clubs, churches)

 

Partnership

  • GAP Ireland (Ireland) – Lead partner
  • Prosper Fingal (Ireland)
  • InEuropa (Italy)
  • Coopattiva (Italy)
  • agado (Germany)
  • die reha (Germany)

Financial Contribution

€ 400.000,00

STAND UP FOR EUROPE!

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Project title
Stand up for Europe! Argumentation training against undemocratic slogans: European extension and updating

Project Number
2023-2-DE04-KA220-YOU-000175190 

Lead partner 
Akademie Klausenhof gGmbH (Germania)

Programme and call
Erasmus+ – KA2 Cooperation partnerships in Youth (KA220-YOU), Call for Proposals 2023

 

About the project

Brief description

The project stems from the collaboration of 6 partners (2 from Germany, 1 from Hungary, 1 from Turkey, 1 from Slovenia and InEuropa from Italy) for the creation of practical and theoretical materials for the development of training and facilitations activities and workshops for young people aged from 13 to 30 on thematic linked to democracy and European values. Specifically, the training materials will be the starting point for learning how to respond to antidemocratic slogans and discourse in a constructive way.

The training material will be freely accessible through a theoretical guide and a practical manual, a handbook of Good Practices on how to implement and promote common European values in their respective national contexts, and an online self-learning tool (short videos) to reflect and to activate the critical thinking and the peer-to-peer confrontation. Project materials are available on InEuropa website and on the official website in Italian, English and in the partners’ languages (German, Turkish, Slovenian, and Hungarian).

The main goal of the proposed activities is to provide resources to react in a proper way to antidemocratic and populist slogans that relate to daily situations with family, friends, at school, in public spaces, etc.

STAND UP FOR EUROPE! will mainly focus on:

  • Values and Identity
  • Dilemmas and Conflicts
  • Antidemocratic Slogans
  • Power, Privilege and Discrimination

The materials constitute the evolution and the update of the Klaus-Peter Hufer method – “Argumentationstraining gegen Stammtischparolen “(Argumentation training against populists’ slogans) in a European sense, widely used in Citizenship Education in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, enriched with topics, methods, and contributions specific to Europe thanks to the collaboration and contribution of the six project partners.


Target groups

The project is aimed at teachers, educators, and trainers enabling them to provide the young people and young adults they work with on a daily basis the resources to respond critically and constructively to hateful, anti-democratic, and populist attitudes, verbal (and physical) attacks, and populist, extremist, sexist, and stereotypical arguments (against migrants, Jews, people with disabilities, women, disadvantaged people, and queer people). 

It is also aimed at:

– Activists and volunteers in youth movements/political parties

– Employees of NGOs, initiatives, and civil rights movements, with a particular focus on young people 

– Stakeholders and politicians 

– Anyone involved in youth education

 

Through STAND UP FOR EUROPE! we want to:

  • Spread awareness of European values and strengthen respect for them
  • Develop a training program aimed at preparing young people to respond effectively to populist, anti-European, and discriminatory arguments, both online and offline.
  • Develop a method for spreading awareness of European values and their protection through the collection, comparison, and integration of effective training methodologies.
  • Defend human rights.
  • Contribute to the recognition of violations of fundamental European values through an effective training tool for use in digital contexts, oral discussions, and everyday scenarios.
  • Encourage personal reflection on respect for fundamental values and raise awareness of the use of stereotypical and discriminatory arguments and behaviors.
  • Stimulate self-assessment through the use of scenarios with which it is easy to identify.

 

What is Argumentationstraining gegen Stammtischparolen?

Stammtischparolen are populist statements and slogans with which numerous groups of people (often social minorities, but also representatives of the “elites”) are discriminated against. Usually, they are also directed against “the” European policy. These slogans are dogmatic, rigid and prejudice-based: in these speeches, there are very strict categories (“we” and “they”), which defend their positions aggressively and with an exclusionary attitude. 

Professor Dr. Klaus-Peter Hufer is a trainer, a lecturer, an author and scientist. He himself works as an adult educator and as an applied professor. His Argumentation training* teaches effective techniques and tricks for responding to populist slogans in conversations (e.g. with facts, irony, critical inquiries, etc.). In its interactive form, the argumentation training offers the opportunity to try out and experience in exchange with the seminar group how to react appropriately to such slogans. Hufer’s training has been frequently used in educational work for many years, also in youth education or in training for employees and volunteers of NGOs and other institutions, parties, companies, schools and organizations. 

* Klaus-Peter Hufer: Argumentationstraining gegen Stammtischparolen. Materialien und Anleitungen für Bildungsarbeit und Selbstlernen. 10.  Auflage 2018, 120 Seiten, Wochenschau-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main

 

Partnership

University of Augsburg, Germany 

InEuropa srl, Italy

KatHaz, Hungary 

Doga School, Turkey 

Socialna Akademija, Slovenia

 

Duration
24 months (from 01/03/2024 to 28/02/2026) 

Total Budget
€ 250.000