The project "Youth for a greener Europe" aims at bringing young people closer to sustainable and organic agriculture; to encourage them to reflect on the importance of sustainable and environmentally friendly food production as part of an active EU citizenship, a contribution to various environmental challenges and a contribution to a healthy lifestyle. We furthermore want to demonstrate to young people how important it is to get actively involved in important EU policies, be it at national or European level. Four volunteers from different EU countries (Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia) interested in agriculture and environmental issues will join the office of IFOAM EU (the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements) in Brussels in 2016 for one year in order to learn more about sustainable agriculture and food production. Starting from IFOAM EU’s core issues (sustainable food and farming, climate change, resource efficiency, protection of biodiversity), volunteers will be invited to further develop their major interests and concerns in the specific working area of IFOAM EU that they choose and where they will be able to develop and be responsible for their own project. To complement their learning experience, a set of interactive training courses about IFOAM EU's working areas, the principles of organic agriculture and the most important EU policies relevant for the field of organic/sustainable agriculture, seminars, conferences and study visits to European Institutions and meetings with other environmental movements will be organised. A stay of 1 week in an organic farm in Belgium is scheduled for the summer/autumn 2016, where volunteers can learn the practical side of organic agriculture by being actively involved in farm work. The combination of these activities will as a result enable the volunteers to gain a broader overview of the agricultural movement, enhancing at the same time their language and practical skills and their personal awareness of European Institutions’ role. Volunteers will be part of a young, multicultural team, and supported by experienced office staff. Volunteers will receive both individual and team tasks, with a constant supervision, assistance and final evaluation. As a group of four volunteers, they will learn how to work together synchronizing their synergies but also work on individual bases.In the long run, we hope that the volunteers will find the knowledge and skills gained during their stay at IFOAM EU useful for their future and might get engaged in a movement for sustainable agriculture or an environmental movement, and can raise awareness amongst more young people about the importance of these issues. We also expect that both through the promotion of the project through IFOAM EU and its network, the sending organisations and the volunteers, more young people will be interested in joining the EVS programme and new possibilities of cooperation can arise for the organisations involved in the project.