Youth Green Conference-2025 is around the corner!

We are excited to confirm that the Youth Green Conference 2025 will take place from 22nd until 28th of September in the beautiful setting of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Lungau. This is the third time, when we are conducting the great event!

The conference will bring together young people from Austria, Ukraine, Slovenia, and Spain, offering them a unique opportunity to learn, exchange, and collaborate. The program will include a variety of indoor and outdoor activities, encouraging participants to connect with nature and strengthen their role in building a sustainable future. Together we will dive deeper into Respect Nature concept and spread the word about it!

The event is organised by the European Wilderness Society in cooperation with partners: FORZA, La Manchuela Por El Clima, Ljudska Univerza Ormoz and is part of an Erasmus+ project.

Please also read: Youth Green Conference 2025 – Advanced Planning Visit.

About Conference

Similar to the Youth Green Conference 2019 and 2022, Youth Green Conference 2025 invites youngsters from different countries to jointly engage in a dialogue on the topic of a sustainable green future for Europe and rural youth.

We are glad, that such young activists like Jakob Mohl from Austria and Nate Wilbourne from New Zealand will contribute to the event!

All the participants will receive Youth Pass Certificates, as a recognition instrument for the projects realised in the European youth programmes.

Special feature of the upcoming conference will be the podcasts, prepared with youth and for youth!

Who are the young participants?

To join the Youth Green Conference, young participants submitted their applications, where they indicated, why they want to join the Conference and what environmental actions they already undertaken. Among environmental actions are:

• Clean up events
• Wearing second-hand clothes
• Waste separation
• Saving energy (turning off the light)
• Using reusable bottles
• Three R’s in my daily life: reduce, reuse, recycle
• Small steps every day make big difference
• Participation in reforestation, learning about native species.

In addition, we are glad that youngsters from the previous editions of the Youth Green Conference, such as Valeria Popovich, will join as groups leaders this time.

Final preparatory meeting

While being on constant contact and in addition to the national groups meetings, on the beginning of September, partners conducted final preparatory meeting. During the meeting partners discussed and finalised key aspects of the event, including:

• young participants overview
• finalisation of the workshops planning and their schedule
• workshop materials need and supply
• how in the best way to address needs of the participants with fewer opportunities
• Podcasts production
• packing list review
• financial provisions
• final todo list.

We are looking forward to welcoming participants to Lungau this September for an inspiring and engaging week together!