
Now we need more than lifeboats. We need shipyards . . .
I asked the Great and the Good for a few reflections. As additional entries are received, these voices will be included. Here is Youth4Planet’s 2025
Since we started youth4planet Luxembourg with the support of the ministry of environment, the Luxembourg activities have become a major driver of concept development and practice. Over the course of five years we organized film and storytelling processes in almost every school or youth context and implemented the idea of action teams in the country.






Youth4planet became a regular contributor of ideas and workshops at sustainability events like the BNE Foire, ClimateExpo. We represented the country at international conferences like COP26 in Glasgow, COP27 in Egypt, GP2022 in Bali or organized film challenges like the earthbeat challenge as an international format as well.
Youth action teams will become our new model for action countrywide. They can be activated wherever young people come together, learn together, have fun together. Y4P supports them with tools for creative action and helps to develop their “future” skills like storytelling, leadership, responsibility. Peer teaching and coaching can now happen in every community. Mobile media bikes are enabling local dialogue about common values or concrete ideas for transformation towards the SDG goals.
Currently we start working with 10-12 year old students in primary schools up to the age of university students. Guided by our principles we empower cross-gender and cross-generational cooperation.








Regularly the films and projects of our participants are presented at climate fairs or local or regional film festivals. Several have won awards. We train students to facilitate local events in their communities and develop ideas for climate action and communication.
Our goal is to support other NGOs and organizations with our storytelling methods and tools. Co-operation is key to reach the global goals together, nationally and internationally.
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I asked the Great and the Good for a few reflections. As additional entries are received, these voices will be included. Here is Youth4Planet’s 2025

In Support of a Living Future: Why Useldingen Should Heed Marcel Wolff’s Call Have you read Marcel Wolff’s recent Luxemburger Wort Letter to the Editor,

There are moments in Luxembourg’s climate transition that arrive without fanfare. They settle in quietly, professionally, and their significance is seismic. The ministerial recognition of

Across this October 2025 news cycle, the Financial Times and Bloomberg paint a world that is wrestling with itself. In barely three weeks, governments and

Friday evening, along with more than hundred people in their seats at “Encore” in Luxembourg City . . . the gear-shaped trophies were shining on
Many new Youth4planet storytelling projects are running throughout Luxembourg this spring/summer.You can see an example of what these projects look like in this film about
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Moien und Moin, Moin aus Hamburg. Dort habe ich 2016/17 den Youth4planet Storytelling-Prozess zum ersten Mal an eine Schule gebracht und konnte in diesem Projekt meine Leidenschaft für Film, Theater und Hip Hop zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit miteinander Verbinden und es ist unter anderem der Plastik (tick, tick, tick) – https://youtu.be/ry1rFCMqm4M – Song entstanden. Das schönste für mich…

Joerg Altekruse, film director/producer/socialentrepreneur/academic/generalthinker.org, president of the German charity association Youth4planet e.V. (joerg@youth4planet.org) as well as the Youth4planet a.s.b.l., Luxembourg, is a lifelong filmmaker and producer, based in Hamburg, Germany, with a broad range of mainly documentary films, working with broadcasters worldwide, and a special personal interest in environmental, technological and social change topics. He used…


