Young people from Catalan towns create videos to raise awareness about climate emergency
The UAB will welcome on Friday 13 December the Videominut Festival with creations from young students from different rural secondary schools across Catalonia on their perception of how act against climate change. The event will take place at 11:00 a.m. at the UAB Cinema Hall. The festival forms part of the climate education programme and audiovisual on rural youth and climate change, entitled "Joventut rural i narratives del canvi climàtic (YouthEcoNarratives, YEN)", which is being carried out y the Communication and Social Responsibility (Comress) research group.
The project receives the support of the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI), within the Joan Oró aid programme for the promotion of scientific culture.
The young participants, aged 14, are students from secondary schools of Amposta, Cassà de la Selva and Pla de l'Avellà in Cabrera de Mar. The project has worked with the students sot hat they could create narratives on climate change and record one-minute videos with mobile devices.
“Although the narratives still focus a lot on the three Rs of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle that we learn as children, our goal is that they begin to look proactively at the environment and to propose positive discourses and creations, and propose possible actions to be resilient in the scenario of climate emergency we face,” explains Carme Ferré-Pavia, researcher in the Department of Media, Communication and Culture of the UAB and director of Comress.
The festival will be attended by approximately one hundred people, including students from the three high schools participating in the project and their teachers.
The YEN project aims to promote climate and audiovisual education in the areas of Catalonia affected by the consequences of the climate emergency and to encourage narratives that are close, positive and committed to climate justice, especially among the youth, to raise awareness and take action in the face of local and global environmental challenges. The research team collaborates with researchers from New Zealand, Brazil and Mozambique to extend its proposal beyond Catalonia.
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