First International Meeting

On 29-30 September, all the Partners of the project met in Milan for the First International Meeting of "Think Green Think Young".

Participants:

• Elisa Ida Longoni, "Dida", project responsible for Regione Lombardia
• Simona Colombo and Giorgia von Berger from Agenzia InnovA21
• Arianna D'Emilio, from FLA
• Stella Rodio, for the Municipality of Desio
• Giulia Peveri and Camilla Grassi, italian young leaders
• Yoana Angelova, for the Municpality of Burgas
• Daniela Bozhinova, for BSNGI
• Ivaylo Trendafilov, bulgarian young leader
• Josef Pašek, Major of the Municipality of Radnice
• Vaclav Izak, for CSOP
• Anna Chržová, Lucie Čiháková and Filip Blovský, czech young leaders
• Mita Lapi and Matteo Crovetto, experts from FLA
  

On the afternoon of 29th September, after Partners' Presentation and a short introduction about the project, we caught the opportunity of having a guided tour in "Palazzo Pirelli": we visited Carlo Codua’s art exihibition and the 31^th floor of Pirelli skyscraper.
In the evening, after an "Original" pizza together, we arranged to meet at 9.00 in the morning of the day after.

On 30th September, we had a very busy day!
In the morning, we worked hard about the logistic and the contents of the projects for the next months: with the help of our two experts, we spoke about methodolgy, contentsand future actions and with we fixed some shared deadlines for the period october 2010 - june 2011.
In the afternoon, after a quick lunch, we visited Desio (the Muncipality and the most significant places in the town), the place where COP-Y week will be realized on July 2011.
In the evening, we said goodbye and we agreed to "virtually" meet again on the blog, waiting to see again on the COP-Y week!

Who we are

“Think green, think young” is a project funded with the EU program “Youth in Action”.
You have been selected to take part in this adventure!
Together, we’ll organise a Young Conference of the Parties (COP-Y) Lombardy (Italy), starting from the example of the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP): the 15th edition was realized in Copenhagen in December 2009.
By realizing the COP-Y, a group of 60 young people (15-25 years old) coming from Italy, Bulgaria and Czech Republic will meet together for a week in July 2011 in Desio (IT) to discuss and to elaborate concrete action plans, as an answer to Climate Change and Sustainable Development challenges.
These themes are two important priorities for the European Union.
Before the meeting in Desio you will attend a training course about these subjects; after the meeting you will implement your shared action plans in your own countries, trying to persuade oher people to change their lifestyle and to adopt a more sustainable way of thinking.

The project will involve 60 young people from the three countries and will last from May 2010 to October 2011.

Are you ready to begin? Let’s start to think green!