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This project was implemented with an aim to stimulate youth active participation, intercultural learning, critical thinking, understanding, and increasing awareness of important global issues like global warming, pollution, use of natural resources, exploitation of workers and natural sources, and values such as human rights, equal opportunities, ethical mindset, wellbeing.

This YE will include 35 young participants accompanied by 7 youth leaders. Partners will be from 7 countries capturing various cultural groups from the United Kingdom, Portugal, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Sweden.

The project also included participants with fewer opportunities, aged 18-25, 3 participants per country.

The project is based on the specific needs of the participants and partner organizations and will be highly participatory.

With “Get Aware What You Wear” Ye wants to encourage young people to be critical of fashion trends ongoing and raise awareness of the fashion industry’s traps (fast fashion, the negative impact it has on the environment, the cause for pollution, the use of natural resources). In today's modern world, fashion trends are changing very fast, people are triggered to buy clothes to follow the trends, to be fashionable, to buy because they are cheap and they need them and we face over- buying clothes. With this project, we want to promote sustainable & responsible living and buying by providing them with knowledge in terms of sustainable fashion concept and environmental protection, practical skills in remaking, redesigning, repairing, and upcycling clothes, and to encourage them to make ethical changes and become responsible consumers. To become ambassadors of green change and develop future national and international projects. We want to introduce young participants to eco-friendly alternatives of clothes like second-hand shops, handmade clothes with natural ingredients, clothes swaps, etc. We want young people to understand the value but also the costs that each cloth is causing: the use of natural resources to be produced, the use of the cheap workforce, the damage it causes after its thrown on landfills.

We set the following objectives in the project:

- to create a safe and empowering learning space for the exchange of competences and practices among participants to provide space to share knowledge on the topic of fast fashion vs slow fashion to explore and learn the entire concept of sustainable fashion;

- to explore the impact and pollution fast fashion has on the environment and how we are dealing with that to raise awareness about the need for more sustainable consuming habits;

- to exchange ideas on how to develop sustainable wardrobe and go through the transition of changing shopping habits to introduce them to environmentally-friendly concepts of second-hand clothing and upcycling;

- to gain practical skills on how to upcycle clothes, repair and redesign them through sewing and embroidering to share good practices from partner countries on youth involvement into bringing solutions about fast fashion to empower young people and boost their active participation through various events and campaigns to promote the idea of think globally, act locally;

- to promote diversity & multicultural inclusion, creativity, teamwork and mutual support to learn about Erasmus+ programme and its opportunities;

- to support in partnership-building and project development on a local and international level;

- to support the partners and participants in disseminating the results and in transferring the competences to colleagues and young people;

The set objectives are in line with the objectives of Erasmus+, providing knowledge skills and competencies for personal and professional development through non-formal education, raising awareness and understanding of other cultures and countries, increasing organizational capacities, encouraging active participation in society and learning about Erasmus+ programme.