YEEC Programme - Raising Eco-Conscious Kid to Become Active Global Citizens

Format: Panel Discussion (1hr)

Brief of the session: Open conversation on early education on sustainability with a group of youngsters sharing their involvement in environmental and sustainable initiatives and how they were raised to care about the environment.

YEEC Programme - Education Works?!

Format: Panel Discussion

Brief of the session: In which forms of education can affect the way we approach (or don’t) climate action.

YEEC Programme - Masterclass on Connecting Youth for Action

Format: Workshop (1hr)

Brief of the session: Environment and Sustainability Education has the potential to set in motion the power of creative thinking in our young people and in so doing we support and grow relevant skills which will help young people to cope with an ever-changing world, support youth in exploring activities that set-in motion the power of critical thinking and innovation, engage youth with learning tools that develop essential competences in environment and sustainability education. Help them adapt ideas generated in the workshop to enhance quality and relevance their own learning and taking action.

YEEC Programme - Mermaid Diaries UAE

Format: Interactive Presentation

Brief of the session: A thought-provoking and informative online climate series that delves into the urgent issue of climate change. This series aims to deepen our understanding of the causes and consequences of climate change while highlighting the importance of individual and collective action. To learn amazing facts about our local marine wildlife corals, turtles, dolphins, seagrass, dugongs, mangroves, flamingos, whale sharks, sea snakes and more! Understand how you can support the global movement to protect at least 30% of the world’s lands, waters, and ocean by 2030, get the opportunity to learn about impactful fieldwork aimed at safeguarding and protecting areas to help ensure a healthy ocean and climate, understand why and how we can protect our Oceans.

YEEC Programme - Rethinking Environmental Education within Indigenous Communities

Format: Panel Discussion (1h)

Brief of the session: Group of youth talk about indigenous people’s role in the environmental education field. Discuss how Indigenous peoples’ contributions are essential in designing and implementing solutions to sustainability and ecosystem restoration issues, how EE communities learn from cultures and traditional practices and how values, indigenous knowledge, and culture can help connect people and create a better tomorrow, the connection of local wisdom and cultural practices with international agendas in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Integration of indigenous knowledge systems into environmental education.

YEEC Programme - Content Creation on Environmental Education

Format: Workshop

Brief of the session: Group of Content creators share their knowledge to youth about content creation and how if helps deliver a meaningful message to the community and how social media can be a tool to share environmental education. This session highlights the role of content creation in delivering meaningful, direct, and concise information to the community, particularly in the context of environmental education. It helps explore how social media can be utilized as a powerful tool to share environmental education and effectively engage with the community.

YEEC Programme - Public Speaking & Advocacy

Format: Workshop (1h)

Brief of the session: A workshop on the key concepts and skills in planning and delivering effective presentations and public speeches. Each participant will give a short speech. Videoed with their own phones for review and refinement at a later date.

YEEC Programme - Global Café: Tackling Triple Planetary Crisis

Format: Global Café

Brief of the session: https://theworldcafe.com/key-concepts-resources/world-cafe-method/

Objectives: the sessions aim to bring together youth to discuss on the given topic. Also to raise awareness, foster understanding, and inspire action towards addressing environmental challenges and promoting sustainability.

o Table 1: Nature & biodiversity: Reham Zia
o Table 2: Air Quality: Oriol Teixido Escote
o Table 3: Climate Change: Mogesh Sabapathy
o Table 4: Environmental Education: Arpan Singh

YEEC Programme - Design Thinking in Environmental Education Programs

Format: Workshop (45min)

Brief of the session: In small groups we will work on how to create an environmental education project from scratch with a creative design mindset. Always focusing on the issues and collaborative, collective and inclusive thinking.

YEEC Programme - No Limits to Learning

Format: Presentation

Majlis: End of the Day Wrap Up

YEEC Programme - Masterclass on Connecting Youth for Action

Format: Masterclass (1hr)

Brief of the session: Environment and Sustainability Education has the potential to set in motion the power of creative thinking in our young people and in so doing we support and grow relevant skills which will help young people to cope with an ever-changing world. Aims in exploring activities that set-in motion the power of critical thinking and innovation, engage with learning tools that develop essential competences in environment and sustainability education, allow youth to adapt ideas generated in the workshop to enhance quality and relevance their own learning and taking action.

YEEC Programme - Leaving no one behind in EE & ESD

Format: Workshop

Brief of the session: Sorting Activity (Teams competition). Participants will be introduced to recycling practices in the UAE as an introduction to good waste and other waste streams. Participants will compete in sorting waste into recyclable and non-recyclable items while understanding the basics of recycling & sorting correctly in the UAE. Each player will pick one waste item from 25 items from the box, examine and select the right bin it goes into. They need to then find the ball that represents the waste item and try to score. If it ends up in the right bin, team wins a point.

YEEC Programme - Entrepreneurship for Sustainability

Format: Interactive Panel Discussion

Brief of the session: Group of Elite youth who speak about their experience on Environmental education and how it helped shape their business idea. To showcase and highlight the connection between environmental education and entrepreneurship, inspiring other youth and demonstrating the potential for sustainable business innovation. Youth attendees will have the chance to engage with the elite speakers, asking questions, seeking advice, and learning from their experiences.

YEEC Programme - Environmental Education: Programs Around the World: Achievements & Challenges

Format: Global Café

Brief of the session: Environmental Education achievements from different countries and continents that aims to share knowledge. Discuss various achievements performed internationally and compare ideas, strategies, and perspectives. It is an eye-opening experience to exchange ideas from international guests and learn new ways to implement them to improve local projects and targets.

-Table 1: Shamma Alkhoori, Aysha Alsherroqi,
-Table 2: Jenna Potter, Carlos Shanka
-Table 3: Sara Syed, Manal Bidal
-Table 4: Nina Hamilton, Sara Constantino
-Table 5: Carl Alongsagay & Sneha Shahi
-Table 6: Raquel Armendariz & Alexa Rose Pettinari

YEEC Programme - Climate Fresk

Format: Workshop (1hr)

Brief of the session: The Climate Fresk is a scientific and collaborative workshop, designed to educate about climate change. The objective is to connect 42 cards, highlighting the causes of consequences between them. The reasoning follows the scientific reports of the IPCC.

YEEC Programme - Wisdom of the Sands: Unveiling Sustainable Lessons from UAE Heritage

Format: Majlis

Brief of the session: In this session, we explore indigenous knowledge and cultural practices, drawing on insights from experts in diverse fields, including nutrition, heritage, and marine biology. A physical majlis conducted to explore sustainable lessons taugh through the UAE heritage and culture to raise awareness of local wisdoms that are being passed from generation to generation and learning how to tweak them to align with today’s needs for a sustainable lifestyle.

YEEC Programme - Upcycling Workshop

Format: Workshop

YEEC Programme - Public Speaking & Advocacy

Format: Workshop (1h)

Brief of the session: A workshop on the key concepts and skills in planning and delivering effective presentations and public speeches. Each participant will give a short speech. Videoed with their own phones for review and refinement at a later date.

YEEC Programme - Enhancing Environmental Education Globally

Format: Presentation

Brief of the session: The Power of Advocacy and Youth
Youth Arab Centre Workshop

Objectives: E-Green Platform is presented to everyone to find opportunities to develop content and add it in their platform.

Outcomes: a more conspicuous vision of a future EE with enhanced strategies to teach our youth new ways to mitigate global environmental issues.

YEEC Programme - Catalysing Change: Empowering Communities for Climate Action

Format: Workshop

YEEC Programme - Building SMART Communities: Setting Goals for Global Collaboration

Format: Workshop

Majlis: End of the Day Wrap Up

YEEC Programme - When Environmental Education Changed My Future

Format: Open Mic

YEEC Programme - Leaving no one behind in EE & ESD

Format: Majlis (1hr)

In collaboration with the students of Al Karamah Training Institute

Brief of the session: A physical Majlis to encourage a discussion and further insight into express their needs with respect to their inclusion in EE programs.

Objectives: Open discussion in a Majlis format for youth with disabilities to express their needs in regards their inclusion in environmental education programs. Taking the workshop Part 1 as a reference we will share best practices when it comes to deliver a message to people with additional abilities. This session intends to gather valuable insights and input from youth with disabilities about their specific needs and aspirations related to environmental education programs. By sharing best practices during the workshop, participants will gain knowledge and strategies on effectively delivering messages and information to individuals with diverse abilities.

YEEC Programme - The Impact of Environmental Voices on Social Media

Format: Panel Discussion

YEEC Programme - Stepping up EE & ESD

Format: Group activities

Brief of the session: A discussion with all youth to understand what is required by them currently and what will be required by the future generation, accumulate discussion points and incorporate it in future Environmental Education plans. To recap of all youth outcomes to deliver a closing remark

YEEC Summary & Closing Ceremony

Majlis: End of the Day Wrap Up