"<< Background >>The European Green Deal, which is based on circularity and sustainability principles, requires a paradigm shift in both training curricula and practices to equip youth and university students with green entrepreneurship skills. To adapt young people to the innovations brought by the Green Deal, their green skills should increase as well as they should gain the competence to discover green entrepreneurship opportunities. Europe continues on its way in line with the 2050 targets by reflecting the Green Deal step by step and sector by sector in all areas of life and economy. The Green Deal will redesign the existing sectors during the transition period as well as it will affect people's living habits rapidly; thus, green jobs and green skills will come to the fore. It is very important for university students who are future entrepreneurs and employees to constantly transfer information and to generate ideas, both for their careers and for faster implementation of the Green Deal.Emphasis on the Green Deal in youth work involving university students is critical because all sectors need to make radical changes by making significant investments to keep up with this new order. Preparations for the EU's Border Carbon Regulation, which is the ""determination of the import price by considering the carbon footprint of the goods"" in sectors from the automotive to the ready-made clothing, from the chemistry to the iron and steel sector, have also started. According to the results of the study carried out by our Engineering Faculty in 2021 within the framework of the reports of the Ministry of Industry and the Turkish Steel Producers Association; the practice in the EU, which is Turkey's largest export market with a share of more than 50 per cent, will also significantly affect Turkey's exports. If the sectors do not regulate the carbon emissions of the products and services subject to export under the Green Deal regulations which foresees a 3-year grace period, they will face a tax burden between 30 and 50 Euros per ton. Turkey exported 155 million 331 thousand tons of goods with a value of 169 billion dollars last year. According to the tax burden regulation of 30-50 Euros per ton, with a rough calculation, if Turkish exporters do not make their investments in the regulation, they will be exposed to an annual tax burden of between 2.3 billion dollars and 3.9 billion dollars. Accordingly, if we consider young people as future business leaders, they urgently need to be prepared for the European Green Deal.Universities create an environment where young people can shape their careers and interact with each other at a high level. Student clubs, societies and informal youth groups within the universities provide tremendous environments for the promotion of the European Green Deal. However, youth work in universities has not developed much in this direction. Youth work is usually managed by youth leaders (selected within students) or other staff and lecturers who engage in youth works despite not having such a job description. Apart from the backward curriculum in schools, young people in particular university students should be supported by non-formal and informal activities to develop green skills and entrepreneurial mindset, to make their voices heard and to encourage active citizenship.<< Objectives >>The European Green Deal is the EU’s roadmap towards a sustainable future, with the ultimate goal of achieving a climate-neutral continent by 2050. It aims to boost the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean, circular economy and stop climate change, revert biodiversity loss and cut pollution. The European Green Deal covers all sectors of the economy. European Union continues to keep the Green Deal at the heart of EU policy-making for the next years/decade. The EU commitment to the creation of a circular economy and resocialization of production has the potential to create a million new green jobs. While youth unemployment remains high, this is a welcome and important step. However, youth are not ready to adapt themselves to new green jobs.Preparing young people for the Green Deal is not only possible with green innovation of education curricula. It is necessary to increase the quality of youth work. The proposed project prioritizes to convey the principles of the European Green Deal and its changes to young people in a better-quality way through youth work. Moreover, increasing the skills of youth workers and other staff engaged in youth work towards the Green Deal is one of the issues that the project will address. The main purpose of the proposed project; To increase the quality of youth work in the preparation of university students / young people towards the European Green Deal.Specific Objectives of the project are:- To build the capacity of youth workers to better integrate the Green Deal topics in their practice and to transfer them into informal and non-formal training- To empower youth with new competencies, and enhance their employability in green/circular economy- To raise awareness on environmental challenges and climate change as well as to develop knowledge and critical understanding of the European Green Deal concepts and actionThe project will also touch various global goals such as Erasmus+ Priorities, UNDP Sustainable Development Goals, 2019-2027 EU Youth Strategies, Paris Climate Agreement, EU Commission primary goals, and guides young people within the scope of the Green Deal.<< Implementation >>Various project activities will be carried out in order to achieve the objectives of the project and to deliver the planned results. The main activities and how they lead to the achievement are detailed below.1. Production of the Tangible ResultsThe most important activity in the project is to produce 3 tangible results. The first of these; The production of “The Informal Training Set towards the European Green Deal Concept” is the most important activity in achieving the project goal related to youth workers. Lecturers, lead students or relevant staff engaged in youth work in universities, although there is no youth work in their job description, will increase their qualifications as youth workers. In addition, universities and other relevant target groups will have innovative training materials for their in-service training for youth workers. This result will increase the competencies of youth workers within the framework of the ETS II Competence Model and the Green Deal.The second tangible result, “The Toolkit for the Green Skills”, will enable university students/young people in general to prepare for the European Green Deal transition period and acquire future skills such as green entrepreneurship, active citizenship and green skills. It will enrich the resources of youth workers. The toolkit will play the most important role in achieving the project's goals on youth.The Training Set and The Toolkit will increase the quality, innovation and recognition of youth work and ensure that the related project goal is achieved.The third tangible result, GreenBrained, will be a platform to raise awareness of the wider community about the transition to the Green Deal, a platform where youth workers and youth can benefit, have their voices heard and encourage their active citizenship duties. It will be an innovative platform with the theme of the Green Deal and will be effective for the engagement of citizens in the process. Thanks to these features, it will be a powerful platform in achieving the goals of the project.2. The Green Deal Mobility25 university students with fewer opportunities will participate in the LTT Activity. In this activity, The Training Set and The Toolkit will be tested and data will be collected for necessary optimizations. Thus, LTT Activity will make a great contribution to the production of high-quality tangible results. In addition, it will be ensured that the tangible results involve target groups with fewer opportunities and leave no one behind. With the LTT Activity, it is expected that students with limited opportunities will develop many soft skills such as entrepreneurship, active citizenship, green skills.3. Green Ideas CompetitonA competition will be held on students' green entrepreneurship business ideas related to the Green Deal. In this competition, good ideas will be selected and an exhibition will be held without sorting. Green Ideas will enable students to be engaged in the project, increase their motivation about green thoughts and expand their horizons by discovering different ideas.4. Online Meeting & Transnational Project MeetingsThese meetings will ensure good synergy between participating institutions, the know-how transfer, the exchange of best practices, the increase in the quality of tangible results, the regular and planned progress of other project activities, the measurement of project achievements, and intervention when necessary. These meetings are one of the supporting tools for the achievements of the project.5. Multiplier Events; Dissemination & Exploitation ActivitiesThese activities will contribute to raising awareness in the general public, enabling more people and institutions to benefit from the project results, obtaining new ideas by getting opinions from third parties, ensuring the sustainability of the project and expanding the usage area of ​​tangible results. Thus, they are very important activities in the achievements of the project.<< Results >>Many tangible and intangible results are expected to be achieved during and after the project. The most important tangible results to be obtained during the project are;1. An Informal Training Set towards the European Green Deal Concept2. A Toolkit for the Green Skills3. GreenBrainedIn addition, the Green Deal Mobility final reports and the “Green Ideas” exhibition to be carried out within the project are among the tangible results expected during the project.Intangible results are expected to be obtained in the production process of these results and in the implementations after their production. These results can be classified into participants, participating institutions and target groups;On Participants;Youth workers will increase their capacity and professionalism to work at EU/international level in line with ETS II. They will build their activity development skills within the scope of the Green Deal.- Youth workers will gain better knowledge and awareness regarding the Green Deal Transition and meet colleagues with the same ambition across the EU. This will make them more responsible, researcher, dynamic and motivated.In addition, all project participants will develop;-competence in foreign languages and communication-level of digital competence, management, and cooperation skills-greater understanding and responsiveness to climate change-more positive attitude towards the European project and the EU values-competencies linked to youth work-better understanding of practices, policies and systems across countries-motivation and satisfaction in daily work.On Participating Institutions-Youth work in participating institutions will be of higher quality, innovative, functional and recognizable.-Participating institutions will be more aware of the green deal and their corporate responsibilities will be strengthened. Their youth system and programmes will be more effective towards the Green Deal by integrating the tangible result into their existing programs, their youth system will be more effective.-Within the framework of the Green Deal, their capacity to guide students / young people on green skills will develop. Thus, they will raise more green brains ready to adapt to the Green Deal Transition.-Youth systems of the institutions will be better aligned to the needs of and opportunities offered by the labour market, and closer links to business and the community.-The participating institutions will develop synergies and links, and improve the transition between the different sectors of education, training and youth at the national level, with improved use of European reference tools such as Youthpass for recognition, validation and transparency of competencies and qualifications. They will improve reinforced interaction between practice and policy in the scope of the European Green Deal.On Target Groups;During the project, test implementations will be made for university students, their communities, clubs and informal youth groups. While the results on these target groups are obtained during the project, these results will continue after the project with the continued use of the project results. According to this;- University students who will participate in the mobility (LTT Activity) during the project will develop their knowledge and green skills about the Green Deal, as well as their transversal / soft skills such as entrepreneurship, leadership, communication, working with others, cultural, analysis and problem solving will improve.-Clubs, communities, informal youth groups within the universities will have resources to develop activities specific to the Green Deal. Their social responsibility towards climate change will increase by better understanding the importance of the Green Deal; hence, active citizenship skills will develop. Their interest in green jobs will increase and they will be encouraged to develop innovative ideas and take action towards opportunities in the Green Industry"