Time for green and digital transformation for youth! A new project is starting: Youth4Coops - Youth mobilization for digital and green agri-food cooperatives.
In partnership with our longstanding turkish partner Genc Isi Kooperatif and the spanish one Agrupacion de Cooperativas Valle del Jerte, Youth4Coops project empowers young cooperators in green and digital transformation. The project, financed unde the Erasmus+ Programme and will last one year, up to end of 2026.
The project will identify good practices in achieving progress in digitalization and green transition at farm or cooperative level in respective countries (Spain, Türkiye, Italy) in the agri-food sector. The identified
good practices must be in line with the targets and principles listed under the EU Digital Strategy (EU 2030 Digital Decade), EU Digital Single Market Strategy, and EU Farm to Fork Strategy. The project's objective is to valorize good practices in green/digital transition, to strengthen young people's skills and to support youth in cooperative leadership. The target group includes all young men and women cooperators in Türkiye, Spain, and Italy who are interested in digital transformation in farm and cooperative levels. Cooperators will be scouted and interviewed in the three countries to identify
and document good practices. All young men and women cooperators in the respective countries will benefit from the outputs of the good practices mapping.