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ReGeneration 2030’s Plan for 2025

The fight for a livable future has never been more urgent. The climate crisis is accelerating—2024 saw global temperatures breach the 1.5°C threshold, and the Gulf Stream faces imminent collapse. Meanwhile, governments and corporations cling to business as usual, driving us closer to the brink.  


ReGeneration 2030 is a youth-led force for systemic change in the Nordic and Baltic Sea region. Our Plan for 2025 is our action-driven battle map, rooted in our three-year strategy to build youth power, sharpen tools, and challenge the systems driving climate collapse. Created collectively by working groups, the Secretariat, and the Board, it reflects our movement’s diversity and shared purpose.


The climate crisis is here. And we are ready. Let’s make 2025 a year of defiance, action, and transformation.


Aim 1: Build Solidarity Across Borders Between Environmental Youth Groups


Our region is home to strong local youth movements and organisations for sustainability. Together, we constitute one of the strongest forces pressuring governments and wider society to build a sustainable system. However, many of these groups are new, small, and operating purely on the grassroots level. By uniting these groups together, we can learn from each other, sharpen our skills, and elevate our demands onto a collective platform to advocate for change at the highest levels.

 

In 2025, our Catalysts for Change program will invite twenty-five youth from a diverse range of backgrounds all over our region into our organisation and into the youth environmental movement more widely. Then, ReGeneration Week will unite a further 100 youth from diverse struggles and movements to learn from each other and elevate our collective demands for change. Throughout the year, we’ll hold four Core Partner Meetings packed with organisers from across the region - from Finnish eco-defenders to Estonian climate strikers to Swedish direct action groups. By the end of 2025, we aim to be a central gathering point for a wide range of active youth and environmental groups across our region. 


Photo: Hülya Tokur Ehres
Photo: Hülya Tokur Ehres

Aim 2: Sharpen Youth Skills and Knowledge for Sustainable System Change


We, the youth, are inspired by generations of youth before us. We know that young people all over the world have used grassroots action and participation in democratic processes to achieve inspirational system change; from achieving an 8-hour working day in Germany in the 1900s to bringing down discriminatory labour laws in Bangladesh in the 2020s. We believe that youth today can spark a just sustainable transformation process. 


Therefore in 2025, our mission isn't just to educate - it's to build a fighting force capable of transforming the system. We will run our Catalysts for Change programme, ReGeneration Week summit, and year-round volunteer training work, we aim to skill up individual youth, as well as movements and organisations, to focus on system change and act more effectively in the coming years. This isn't about working within the system - it's about building the power to transform it. The climate crisis demands nothing less.

Photo: Hülya Tokur Ehres
Photo: Hülya Tokur Ehres

Aim 3: Advocate for Sustainable System Change


We know what’s causing the crisis around us: our current system pits powerful actors (such as corporations in pollution-heavy sectors) against necessary change. Many of our leaders are still in the grip of fairytales like infinite economic growth and ever-rising profits from which we will have to shake them awake. And there are possibilities to build a brighter world for all on the horizon, but we need to muster the courage to go there. In the face of life-threatening delays and distractions, we will cut through the greenwashing and push for the most important changes we need to see to change this system. Halting fossil fuel extraction, making our economies prioritise people and planet over profit, and protecting biodiverse ecosystems. 


By taking the youth voice directly to power-holders at meetings and events, we will hold leaders to account, motivate them to act, and ensure that those with the most at stake - our generation - are involved in actively shaping policies for a just sustainable future. By using our position in platforms like the European Union Stakeholders group and the United Nations Environmental Programme, we will elevate the Nordic and Baltic Sea youth voice to be heard directly in these influential bodies. We will also continue using our social media and newsletters to lift system-changing movements up and build solidarity between youth and environmental groups across our region and in the world beyond.


Photo: Hülya Tokur Ehres
Photo: Hülya Tokur Ehres

2025 Calendar

Month

Events

January

Planning for 2025


February

Applications close for the Catalysts for Change programmeStart of the Catalysts for Change programme

March

ReGeneration 2030 Movement Meeting in Malmö

Workshop at the Nordic Bildung Conference 

Launch of ReGeneration Week 2025 

Recruitment of participants for ReGeneration Week 2025 starts

Core Partner Network Meeting

Catalysts for Change in-person workshop

April

Recruitment of ReGeneration Week 2025 participants continues

May

Recruitment of ReGeneration Week 2025 participants continues

Start of Catalysts for Change independent projects

June

Recruitment of ReGeneration Week 2025 participants continues

Catalysts for Change programme continues

Core Partner Network Meeting

July

Sign-ups to ReGeneration Week 2025 closes

August

ReGeneration Week

Graduation and conclusion of the Catalysts for Change programme

ReGeneration 2030 Board Elections

September

Core Partner Network Meeting

October

Planning for ReGeneration Week 2026 and Catalysts for Change 2026 begins

November

Core Partner Network Meeting

Applications open for Catalysts for Change 2026 

December

Board reflection and analysis


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