ContextDue to wide destruction of natural areas in Europe over the last centuries environmental protection became a key element of European active civil society, politics and - last but not least - economy. Facing recent developments of immigration to Europe, our network of environmental organisations together with organisations supporting refugees and migrants wants to contribute to the integration of those new Europeans. By integrating these new target groups into our green educational concepts we want to use the theme of environmental protection to get in touch with young migrants and refugees, fostering the link between environmental and social work and benefit from synergies between both working fields.ObjectivesOur training INTEGREEN connects environmental and integration youth work by taking in consideration intercultural or language barriers as well as different levels of general awareness of young migrants and refugees.In line with the EU 2020 targets for social protection and inclusion as well as training and education the overall objective of INTEGREEN is to bring all participants into positive thinking and raise the quality of competences of youth workers. Exchanging experiences and developing new education methods will help to gain a overall structured strategy in interacting with refugees and migrants. Fostering the environmental awarness of migrants and refugees is one of the key concepts in INTEGREEN leading to sucessfull integration in all participating partner countries as well as new perspectives for green jobs.ParticipantsThrough our consortium we cross Europe from Scotland to Malta. The participants will either have an environmental work background willing to work with young migrants and refugees in the future or social work background willing to integrate environmental concepts into their social work. Each environmental partner organisation will send their youth workers and will recruit in their country at least 1 person from an NGO dealing with young migrants and refugees that will participate in the training. This special mix of participants and the involvement of reguees on site will be the key aspect of the INTEGREEN training and the successful basis of exchange of expertise. All together we expect 27 youth workers from 8 countries who will improve their competences. ActivitiesTraining activities will focus on the following topics: Attitude (motivate, eliminate fear), knowledge (some theory) and skills (specific e.g. communication skills, methods). As the training will be held in the facilities of a refugee camp, we will set most activities to get in touch with the target group.# Day 1&2: Arrival, exchange methods, self reflection process, improve communication skills# Day 2: Exchange with young refugees# Day 3: Develop creative new workshop concepts # Day 4: Implement new ideas, learning on the field, feedback# Day 5: Reflection and evaluation# Day 6: Follow-up and departureMethodology The expected learning outcomes will refer to the needs of refugees/migrants. Via non-formal methods such as cooperative and active learning we expect all participants to benefit from each other's experiences. Establishing together workshop models and aggregating feedback from the target group directly will bring new experiences and a package of innovative methods back to their organisations. In the sense of “learning to learn”, the participants should get enabled to organize and manage their own learning. Throughout the training, they will be offered methods on how to reflect on their learning. Thanks to the youth pass we want to use that tool to make the learning outcomes more visible for the participants themselves as well as for the participating organisations and beyond.Results and impactWe see INTEGREEN as a first step into a new chapter of co-operation. We would like to use the presence of 7 partner countries to develop ideas for future projects and taylor-made workshops. All the participating organisations especially our headquarter in Belgium will put strong emphasis on documenting the training process and the practical part in order to disseminate the results through our networks and media channels in order to motivate young Europeans to spread the information through their own networks. After the end of the project we expect INTEGREEN to be lighthouse training for other projects on local, national or European level in the near future.All above all the learning outcomes of INTGREEN will support all partner organizations in establishing, deepning or reconsider their own green education concepts on local level. Offering migrants and refugees the chance to participate in these projects will help to activate the civic competences of the young, activates their environmental awareness, facilitates successfull integration and could open up new perspectives on the job market.