On 28 May 2026 gamingHOUSE hosted its Youth EcoVoices Digital Cafe, the Slovenian contribution to work package 2 of Youth4GreenPolicy. Thirteen young people took part, and the session ran in a mix of Slovenian and English so that everyone could speak in the language they think in.
A Digital Cafe is deliberately not a webinar. Nobody presents slides and nobody wins an argument. The four hours move through four rounds, from personal experience towards collective action. Round one asks how climate change actually shows up in your street, your shopping, your summer. Round two asks what being a green citizen means in a Slovenian context. Round three, the hardest one, asks what stops young people from acting. Round four asks each participant to name one concrete thing they could do in the next thirty days, and what they would need to make it happen.
One participant put the mood question plainly: “I don’t think these changes affect my mood that much, but if I’m already feeling down, gloomy weather and heat can make things worse.” That is the register the whole session ran in. Not slogans, just what people notice.
The method comes from the Digital Green Advocacy Toolkit that partners built together at the Vienna training in April, and our facilitator ran the session as a trained EcoDigital Ambassador from that week.
Fifteen partner organisations ran their own sessions across Europe in May and early June, reaching 259 young people in total. Every session feeds the same transnational comparative report, which in turn shapes the SDGs Intelligence Cards work in later work packages and the joint youth resolution at the end of the project. What was said in a Zoom room in Maribor in May does not stop there.