ΤΕΑΜIT+ Stories
Stories chosen from across two editions and four countries, showing what happens at every level of a programme like TEAMIT+. From a young person discovering they can lead, to a company discovering that 24 hours with the right team is enough to change a problem they'd been sitting on for years.
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The participants
The Kamanga Influencers crew, young people from Bilbao, telling the story of their first two modules, in their own words.
What participants take away isn't only a method. It's a first encounter with climate, migration and circular economy — and the discovery that they have something to say about all three.
module 1 - climate awareness
Ester · Kamanga
"We learnt things we were supposed to know about and didn't know."
module 1 - climate awareness
Nelson · Kamanga
"Today I learnt about pollution, about migration processes. People are not mainly moving to where we believe.”
module 2 - 24h of innovation
A day with the Kamanga Influencers
See how M2 participants from the Kamanga Influencers crew experienced the 24 hour innovation challenge.
module 3 - social4impact
Six winning teams, one shared lesson
"These aren't polished pitches. They're six teams being honest, and somehow saying the same thing."
Winning teams from the M3 modules
Six teams. No script. And every single one of them, unprompted, without knowing the others would too, came back to the same thing: working with people unlike themselves was the hardest part. And the most important.
Circular economy · Wine
Bizi Waste
ES FR GR
"Wine gives us identity, roots, and future." They turned what wineries throw away into something worth keeping.
Construction · Waste
Site Sort
FR GR
A construction site is the last place you'd look for a climate solution. Gabriel, Mondriana and Nico looked anyway.
Agriculture · Europe
Three Shades of Green
FI GR ES
Learning to communicate with people who don't speak the same language."Three people one topic none of them had worked on before.
Social innovation
Afypnisi
FR FI GR
"Believe in your dreams, guys." They started as strangers. They ended up finishing each other's sentences.
Sustainable choices
Vaikutamme
FI GR
""We made different connections along the way."They left believing that small choices, made together, can matter.
Water · Sustainability
Nero
ES FI GR
"Diversity makes the ideas stronger." They set out to change how people think about water. The team changed them first.
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The ambassadors
Twelve young people from four countries who went from facilitating climate workshops in their schools to drafting a cross-European advocacy campaign, and convincing local decision- makers to sign it
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ambassador - edition 1
Luis
"This project really helps people innovate and bring out all of their experiences into new ideas for circular economy." He came to share ideas across borders. He left with a new way of seeing his own.
ambassador - edition 1
Lefteris
"Being an ambassador has been a rewarding journey,not just professionally, but also personally." A political scientist who believed TeamIT+ empowers people to create meaningful change. Then experienced it himself.
Their advocacy campaign, in action
advocacy campaign - food systems
Ambassadors Against Food Waste
"Hunger isn t the lack of food. It s injustice." One campaign. Four countries. One shared demand: make Europe's food system work for people and planet. They didn't just learn about advocacy they did it, and brought it back home.
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The facilitator
The people who run TEAMIT+ didn't just design the programme, most of them have lived it. This is Chelza's story: from participant, to facilitator, to coordinator.
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first - as a participant
She lived it
Chelza first experienced a programme created by Diversity for Equality, the foundation of what became Module 3 of TeamIT+. Her grandmother's situation gave her a personal reason to act.
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then - facilitator
She held the space
She looked for collective solutions with real impact, and stepped into the role of holding the space for others on the same path she had walked.
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now - coordinator
She runs it
She became a coordinator of the programme herself, giving her something rare: the perspective of someone who has lived it from both sides.
When the person holding the space has sat where you're sitting, the whole room changes.
chelza - facilitator & coordinator
TEAMIT+ · Diversity for Equality. She has lived it from both sides, and that changes everything. Here, she explains why this programme can be a real game changer.
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The corporate participant
TEAMIT+ isn't only for students. When an innovation leader from a major energy company joined, she found something she hadn't expected
Oxygen. TeamIT gave me as much oxygen as themountains of Basque Country.
sylvie notary
Manager of Innovation, EDF Commerce Nouvelle Aquitaine.
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The partners
Some people don't just take part, they sign on. Two participants from the final events committed to carry TEAMIT+ forward: let's build the future together.
The clearest proof a programme works is when the people who lived it ask to keep going, bringing their school or organisation with them.
signed partner - final events
Sam · UN Etxea
A participant in the final event who took the next step , signing a partnership agreement to keep building alongside TEAMIT+.
signed partner - immaculada eskola
Andoni · Inmaculada eskola
Not just a signature, an active partner in recruiting, encouraging students from his school to take part in the programme themselves.
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practice what you pitch
The TeamIT team, in their own words
They didn't just design TEAMIT+, they led by example, learning by doing. Here's what each of them takes with them after building it together.
txapeldun - the one who wears the basque hat
"It s not the symbol of individual achievement. It s about collective commitment, endurance, collective intelligence. You never become Txapeldun alone."
juhane dascon - programme director, estia | txapela closing ceremony
consortium team
Lander
"We came from different parts of Europe to harvest the green entrepreneurship skills of young Europeans, cultivating their collective intelligence for a new community conscience from nature."
The vision that held the programme together.
consortium team
Mar
"Being an economist, competition was always the preferred option. But I learned from our partners how cooperation is a much better way to explore uncharted territories."
The future requires more cooperation, less competition.
consortium team
Tapu
"40 multicultural participants meet for the first time face to face. Same-minded, curious, enthusiastic, ready to start their journey. Maybe creating friendships that last"
First bootcamp in Finland. The moment TeamIT+ became real.
consortium team
Morgane
"Working in this project made me want to work even more in an intercultural environment. I love that the young people committed to the same goal and chose to work in multicultural teams for many months"
Intercultural by choice, not by accident.
