Youth4Planet designs and runs participatory workshops and projects at the intersection of sustainability education and creative media – in schools, youth centres, public spaces, and beyond.
We work with young people, adults, and communities, using film, digital tools, and participatory methods to explore environmental and social challenges and turn them into concrete stories, installations, and actions.
Our activities take many forms:
Film and digital media are our primary tools, but the format always adapts to the context, the audience, and the question being explored.
We work primarily with young people but also mixed audiences in non-formal and public settings.
We also offer teacher training in partnership with the IFEN, equipping educators with the tools and methods to run sustainability and media projects independently.
Our workshops feed into a wider range of projects – in schools, in public spaces, and in partnership with cultural, environmental, and community organisations.
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Over the past year, Youth4Planet has delivered a wide range of film and media workshops with young people across Luxembourg. From short filmmaking and green screen to found footage, storytelling and sound, participants have explored environmental and social issues through creative media. We have also taken part in public events and festivals, bringing film and…
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As part of Greenpeace Luxembourg's Amazonia event at Knuedler, Youth4Planet created an immersive audiovisual installation that allowed visitors to step into the Amazon rainforest through live green screen interaction. By combining large-scale projection, storytelling, and participant video testimonies, the experience invited the public to reflect on deforestation, biodiversity, and climate change, while also encouraging them…
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„Green Starters – Build Your Own Future“ brings together young people aged 18–25 through workshops, teamwork, and guidance as they develop small-scale project ideas.
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IN & OUT is a creative media project exploring the connections between young people's inner worlds and today's environmental and social challenges. Through philosophical discussions, storytelling, filmmaking and sound design, students created original audiovisual works inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals, culminating in a live performance combining film projection and live sound creation.
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The song and music video “Si gefaangen” were created in October 2025 during a rap and film workshop on the topic of sustainable digitalization. The workshop was led by Jan Holler at the Norden youth center in Troisvierges, Luxembourg. The participants, who are regular visitors to the youth center and between 12 and 25 years…
find out moreYouth4Planet’s work extends well beyond Luxembourg, through programmes and partnerships that give young people’s stories a global audience.
Youth4Planet has been present at COP since 2021 – bringing young people’s films and voices to Glasgow, Dubai, and Belém. Our presence at these events connects local stories to the international climate conversation.
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Launched in 2020, Earthbeat is Youth4Planet’s global film challenge programme – open to young people from anywhere in the world. The first challenge alone reached participants from over 30 countries, including Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, the Philippines, India, and Ukraine. Earthbeat films have been presented at COP26 and at the UN Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction.
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Based in New Delhi, Y4P India adapts the organisation’s approach to local contexts – using film, technology, and creative campaigns to engage young people around climate action, education, and social equity. The programme includes its own CreatiVelo initiative, in which young people build, modify, and ride solar-powered mobile studios to campaign in their communities.
Learn moreWhen we as a community really see that what we do makes a difference, we keep moving. That’s how we can tackle climate change, but also other major challenges, together.
I was super surprised at how creative they get and how much they like researching and calculating. I usually address them [the pupils] in a more humanistic way in class and more with words, and now they are also approached to work a bit more scientifically. And of course the students who are interested find that really cool.
One should not forget that the children are in principle the ones who suffer from what we have screwed up in the last decades. That’s why we ourselves are totally sensitive to all these environmental issues and also this energy issue. You can tell right away that the kids are up for it!
We have so many students who can get involved, who have ideas, who can actually show what they are capable of and what is possible. Not only in Germany, but all over the world, young people are joining forces and realising what they can do, experiencing effectiveness, learning about meaning, and also – en passant – realising where energy can be found.
Actually for me it was the school that made me take the first steps to act! […] Luxembourg is doing a lot to educate more about climate change. For example, we have y4p, who are working together with the government and we have more and more topics about climate change in class.
I don’t believe that young people can go out here and change the world. Immediately, from one moment to the next. They don’t have the tools. But I think it definitely gives the first impulse. It shows the way. I do think so!
I also think this idea of storytelling in conjunction with the sustainability goals makes total sense – because they just need to get out the door and can work. That’s great!
I would like to see more room for creativity in schools, but also more support and more material. What can I do with the students? So, for example, what we have now with y4p. We have a concept, we have an idea. I, as a teacher, just have to bring that to my class and I’m also caught up a little bit with the ideas here.
The smartphones need to become tools for the kids and that’s happening here through y4p and the students who are here.
They are activated. You could tell. They’re not good at editing film yet. And yet they get down to it and want to create a product that is good. And then they learn a lot about how to deal with the media and the medium. But they also get caught up in the problem.
Work with us to turn sustainability ideas into creative media projects that inspire young people and communities to take action.