Co-Memo-S (Commoning Marginalized Ecological Memories for Open Sustainability) is a European Erasmus+ KA220-YOU project (Cooperation Partnerships in the field of youth), funded by the European Union.
A European partnership of 5 organisations
What is it about?
Co-Memo-S starts from the conviction that, in times of climate crisis and ecological anxiety, older people can play a key role in young people's well-being by sharing knowledge, experience and memories. The project aims to foster intergenerational solidarity as an effective way to tackle the ecological crisis, by building inclusive, collaborative local communities.
The project stands on three pillars:
- Encouraging intergenerational relations through youth work.
- Strengthening «open sustainability».
- Promoting the importance of local and marginalised knowledge in fighting the ecological crisis.
Phases and Work Packages
Project Management
Overall coordination of the partnership.
Handbook
State of the art, collection of intergenerational good practices, interactive practices for youth, and E-Study exercises for youth workers.
Educational Videos
5 videos on major environmental challenges (climate change, water pollution, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, ecosystem exploitation), giving voice to young and elderly people.
E-Study Platform
E-learning platform integrating the videos, the Handbook and the Virtual Archive.
Dissemination
Communication strategy, branding, website, social media, newsletters and multiplier events in each country.
Each work package followed a cycle: content development → internal testing (joint staff event) → corrections and translation → external testing with target groups → finalisation.
Project Results
- 📚 Intergenerational Handbook: country-specific state of the art, good practices in intergenerational cooperation, interactive practices for youth, and E-Study exercises for youth workers.
- 🎬 Educational Videos: 5 videos subtitled in all partner languages, giving voice to young and elderly people on the ecological crisis and presenting real local alternatives (community gardens, solidarity economy, shared resource management).
- 💻 E-Study Platform and Virtual Archive: an online learning platform integrating the videos and the Handbook, including a Virtual Archive where communities and young people can upload and share local socio-ecological memories on a timeline.
YOMN's Multiplier Event in Spain
YOMN held its multiplier event in Murcia across two sessions (15 and 22 May 2026), with students and teachers from a local school. The sessions presented the project, showcased the three results in their Spanish version, guided participants through platform registration, and included a Handbook-based group activity in which students reflected on ecological changes they had witnessed in the Region of Murcia (the huerta, water management, elders' traditional knowledge).
Satisfaction clearly exceeded the project's 80% KPI, and the host school kept all materials to embed them in its sustainability curriculum.
Project gallery
Transnational meetings and testing phase in Spain, Cyprus, Hungary and Romania.
Testing phase (Spain)
TPM1 Meeting · Spain
TPM2 Meeting · Cyprus
TPM3 Meeting · Budapest
TPM4 Meeting · Romania
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