ECO-UNESCO's Young Environmentalist Awards (YEA) is Ireland’s biggest ECO-Action programme and they are putting the call out for entries before the closing date on 28 February.
The awards recognise, support and reward groups of young people (aged between 10-18) who raise environmental awareness through creating sustainability and environmental action projects with their local youth group, school or community.
Who can enter?
The awards are open to any group of young people in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland from 10-18 years of age.
- Super Junior Group: 10-12 years (non-category specific)
- Junior Group: 12-14 years
- Senior Group: 15-18 years
Young people are encouraged to enter their own group. A group can range 2-25 individuals.
Click here to register and see all the details on the ECO-UNESCO website!
Check out the news2day report up top where they caught up with previous winners of the Water category for their project, Bad Beach Clean in the YEA programme in 2022. Students from Oatlands College, Stillorgan.
This project helped to raise awareness about the damage and destruction caused by plastic pollution and involved the students signing a petition for their local politicians to campaign for more bins in the area.
There are lots of categories from biodiversity, climate change, energy, food, marine life and much more!
Now more than ever young people want to take action to help combat climate change and protect our natural environment. For over 35 years, ECO-UNESCO has been working to educate, inspire and empower young people to help to protect the natural environment.
Through participation in the Young Environmentalist Awards, groups of young people are supported and encouraged to become active global citizens who help address the many environmental issues affecting their communities and the natural world today.
It also gives young people the opportunity to come up with innovative solutions to environmental issues and increase awareness of these issues in their local communities.
To submit your action project to the Young Environmentalist Awards, visit www.yea.ie or contact yea@ecounesco.ie.
And don't forget, the closing date is 28 February so get moving. You will receive lots of free resources and support to help you through every step of the action project.
