Youth Uniting for Conscious Consumption and Fair Production in Global Supply Chains. Advocating climate justice and human rights globally.
Imagine a world where every product you buy comes from a place of fairness and sustainability. Unfortunately, our reality often tells a different story, where unfair working conditions, child labor, and environmental destruction are hidden behind the goods we consume. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the fragility of our global supply chains, with empty shelves highlighting our dependence on these intricate networks. But with this realisation comes an opportunity: to transform these chains of exploitation into bridges of equity and sustainability.
Our project is a call to action, urging young people and organisations to become the architects of this transformation. By empowering the next generation with knowledge and tools, we can build a future where conscious consumption and fair production are the norm. Together, we can ensure that every step in the supply chain respects human rights and protects our planet. Join us in this vital mission to create a just and sustainable world for all.
Partner Organisations
Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership (KA2) April 2024 – March 2026
- Jugend Eine Welt – Austria
- Don Bosco Mission – Germany
- Service Civil International – Poland
- Gutenberg – Romania
- Neo Sapiens – Spain
Our Goals
Building Knowledge & Showing Actionable Possibilities: We want people to understand how supply chains work and how they can become fairer. To achieve this, we, as participating organisations in the project, will enhance our competencies around fair and sustainable supply chains, building knowledge to understand the complex system of global supply chains and develop our own approaches to action.
Strengthening Youth Workers: We support youth workers in mobilising young people and raising awareness about fair supply chains. We equip them with methods and tools to create workshops and design their own campaigns.
Promoting Critical Thinking: We encourage young people to think critically about their decisions as consumers. Additionally, we show actionable possibilities, both in everyday life as consumers and through concrete campaign work, tailored to the situation of the youth.
Our Concrete Activities
- Online Training Modules: For partner organizations and their youth workers - Oct. & Nov. 2024
- National Event with Young Adults: Dec. 2024 – Jan. 2025
- Completion of a Handbook for Organizations on Fair and Sustainable Supply Chains: by August 2025
- Study Trip to Brussels with Young Adults: July 2025
- National Workshops with Young Adults: Fall 2025
- Completion of a Methods Handbook for Youth Workers: by December 2025
- Development and Testing of an Escape Room: Jan – Dec. 2025
- Youth Conference, 3 days in Vienna: 10th to 12th of March 2026
The Handbook for Fair and Sustainable Supply Chains!
From Chains to Bridges - the Handbook for Fair and Sustainable Supply Chains!
Our supply chains shape the world. Often invisible, sometimes destructive, but always full of potential! Too often, exploitation, human rights violations, and environmental harm lie at the beginning of the products we use every day. But there is another way.
With From Chains to Bridges – The Handbook on Human Rights, Environmental Sustainability & Supply Chains, we show how chains can turn into bridges. Bridges between people, markets, and ideas. Bridges towards justice, respect, social and ecological responsibility.
What the handbook offers you:
- Clarity on the challenges of global supply chains
- Tools for concrete change in practice, policy, and business
- Inspiration from approaches that already work
- Impulses for a transformation that brings hope
Who is it for?
For everyone who wants not only to understand supply chains, but to actively shape them: committed people in NGOs, business, politics and civil society.
Ready for the next step?
The handbook is now available as free download!
Let’s create supply chains that don’t bind us, but bring us together.
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