“Ecotopia” board game brought together youth and experts in Lviv

The EU4ClimateResilience project sup­port­ed an edu­ca­tion­al train­ing in Lviv, where young peo­ple and men­tors explored new for­mats of envi­ron­men­tal learn­ing.

The core of the pro­gramme was the “Eco­topia” board game, devel­oped with project sup­port to build envi­ron­men­tal aware­ness and nego­ti­a­tion skills. Dur­ing the game, par­tic­i­pants cre­at­ed eco-projects for a shared build­ing, prac­ticed deci­sion-mak­ing and learned about sus­tain­able solu­tions at the com­mu­ni­ty lev­el.

The train­ing also includ­ed expert lec­tures, facil­i­ta­tion work­shops and field vis­its to suc­cess­ful envi­ron­men­tal ini­tia­tives in Lviv. Par­tic­i­pants worked with real cas­es, learned to resolve con­flict­ing inter­ests and devel­oped joint action plans.
By the end of the train­ing, most par­tic­i­pants expressed readi­ness to con­duct their own Eco­topia ses­sions and ini­ti­ate eco­log­i­cal projects in their com­mu­ni­ties. The train­ing helped form an emerg­ing net­work of young facil­i­ta­tors capa­ble of scal­ing sus­tain­able prac­tices at the local lev­el.