The Empremta CO⁴ project seeks to promote a cooperative model of education to advance a comprehensive ecology and global justice. The aim is to generate an eCO⁴ footprint; awareness, coherence, commitment and consistency, in citizens and especially young people in youth centres and organisations.

The third phase of the project began this year; commitment. In this phase, participants are shaping a youth network committed to global justice and integral ecology through a transformative educational practice, service-learning (ApS), which includes shared action-reflection dynamics. It also involves the centres and entities, the surrounding environment and decision-making institutions.

At UIC Barcelona the project is led by Justina i Pau, Nazaret Global Education and the university itself, through the research group formed by the Faculty of Education Sciences lecturers Mariona Graell, Maria Pujol, Mariana Fuentes and Sílvia Albareda.

On this occasion, there were five activists from different entities who gave their testimony to young people from different secondary schools, accompanied by their teachers: from Institut Ègara, Col·legi Montserrat, Col·legi Mare de Déu dels Àngels,  Institut Bernat Metge, Col·legi Sant Gabriel Sant Adrià and Col·legi Sant Andreu.

Lecturer Mariona Graell, principal researcher of the project at UIC Barcelona, said that “eCO⁴ wants to encourage young people to be promoters of change”, paving the way to reducing our carbon footprint and building a future from Empremta CO⁴ (eCO⁴).