Event: 10 – 12 April 2026
Climate awareness helps people understand environmental challenges and why they matter. Yet awareness reaches further when understanding is accompanied by the opportunity to act. Ideas, however promising, remain possibilities until they are explored in practice, where they can be tested, questioned, and refined. This principle was reflected in the first Moroccan Youth Assembly for Climate (AJMC) Bootcamp, an initiative led by GreenAct, the environmental student club at the National School of Business and Management of Ibn Tofail University.
Held from 10 to 12 April 2026 at the Abdelkrim El Felous Centre in Salé, the three-day bootcamp brought young people together around a shared objective: developing concrete, impact-oriented solutions for climate action. Rather than positioning participants only as recipients of environmental information, the program was designed to involve them directly in developing real projects.
This practical dimension distinguished the bootcamp. Real projects, mentoring, and skill-building formed the three components of the program. Participants could therefore take an idea beyond its initial conception and begin exploring it through project development and guidance. Bringing an idea into practice creates the opportunity to examine its relevance, identify its limitations, and improve it accordingly. In this sense, the bootcamp connected climate awareness with a process of learning through doing.
The mentoring component added another dimension to this process. Instead of leaving participants to develop their projects independently, the program incorporated mentor support alongside project development. In this way, the bootcamp combined learning with application and provided a structured environment in which young people could work on climate-related ideas while strengthening relevant skills.
The experience also extended beyond project development. In a post-event account, one participant described the three days as centered on learning, dialogue, and youth engagement in climate action and reported gaining new perspectives, meaningful connections, and a deeper understanding of the role young people can play in shaping a sustainable future. These reflections provide a participant perspective on what the immersive format offered beyond the formal program.
For GreenAct, which describes its mission as promoting environmental responsibility and sustainable development among students, the first AJMC Bootcamp translated that commitment into an experiential format. By placing young people around projects rather than limiting their participation to discussion, the initiative created a setting in which climate engagement could be practiced through developing, learning, receiving guidance, and exchanging perspectives.
The value of the bootcamp, therefore, lies not only in the climate issues it addressed but also in how young people were invited to engage with them. Over three days, participants were given a framework in which awareness could lead to ideas, ideas could move into project development, and projects could be examined and strengthened through mentoring. The first AJMC Climate Bootcamp thus placed action within the learning process itself, giving young people room not simply to imagine possible responses to climate challenges but to begin working on them.