The project, Eco-Leaders, addresses the pressing issue of the environment and the future of our planet. Young people across our nations, communities and schools have sent a clear message: environmental sustainability is one of their biggest priorities and action must be taken. Eco-Leaders builds on an existing and successful Erasmus+ link between the UK, Spain and Germany. The participating organisations mutually recognise the importance of empowering young people to become positive role models within society. Our shared experience of Erasmus+ projects has equally demonstrated the huge potential among our young people to energise others and drive change through innovation and fresh perspective. In consideration of these global priorities and the unique dynamism of our young people, our project seeks to achieve the following objectives:• To establish a student leadership body across each of the three participating schools, which is responsible for promoting our nations’ common goals towards a more environmentally sustainable future.• To provide a platform for students to voice their opinions on environmental sustainability and provide opportunities for them to work together with fellow students, staff and the local community, with the aim of developing common eco-friendly practices throughout our school settings.• To further motivate students to engage with changing global priorities and how these can be addressed through international cooperation, negotiation and collaboration. • To promote cross curricular learning and to provide students with a broader skillset.The project will run over a two-year period and will include a week-long movement to each participating country, involving 30 visiting participants and 30 host participants. Each of the project weeks will be centred around one of the 3 R's of environmental action (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) with the following desired results: • Each school will establish an environmental student-led committee, referred to as Eco-Leaders. Under the supervision of staff involved in the project, students will meet on a regular basis to discuss their concerns and priorities, both locally and globally. They will also share their visions for initiatives to be carried out during the project weeks and democratically cast votes on their chosen actions. In addition, there will be a series of video conferences between each of the Eco-Leader committees across the three schools to introduce themselves to their partners, as well as to exchange their objectives and intended outcomes.• Prior to each movement / project week, host and visiting participants will prepare informative presentations, which they will deliver to their peers at the beginning of the project week. In these presentations they will formally outline the environmental challenges and situations (relating to their assigned 'R' of environmental action) in their countries, communities and schools. The host participants will also formally outline their chosen initiatives.• Students will be placed in multi-national groups and assigned roles and tasks by the host Eco-Leaders in order to successfully implement their chosen eco-friendly initiatives. • During the project week, all visiting and host participants will take part in the initiatives, ideally involving the whole school and wider community, as proposed by the host students. With the support of different departments across the school, they will be responsible for producing any promotional materials. • At the end of each project week, students will create a displayable mission statement for their assigned 'R' in English, Spanish and German. This mission statement, which will reinforce our schools' commitment to environmental sustainability and international unity, will be professionally printed and displayed in each school. • Students will also deliver an assembly to present their project work to the rest of the school and promote further engagement in environmental sustainability among our school communities.During the project weeks, students will engage in the following:• Multi-national team work to plan, promote and successfully execute the host Eco-Leaders' proposed eco-friendly initiatives.• External visits during these project weeks may include visits to local waste management centres, local industries or museums. The aims of these external trips are to motivate students within their roles as Eco-Leaders; to allow them to recognise their importance of their collective efforts; to inspire them to lead the way in halting climate change and protecting our future planet.• The implementation of a negotiated school mission statement on our joint commitment to reducing our waste, our attitudes to reusing materials and effective approaches to recycling.The outcomes of the project will be advertised widely across the partnership and our local communities using digital resources, E-Twinning site, school websites, press and social media.