A fresh breeze of green innovation swept through Málaga this week as the Erasmus+ project “GROW – Green Revolution of Youth” opened its doors for a four-day curriculum-design sprint. Inside the headquarters of Spanish partner ASOCIACIÓN EGERIA DESARROLLO SOCIAL, nine writers sat elbow-to-elbow around a single long table: three experts from each partner organisation—EGERIA themselves, Business Impact Lab from North Macedonia and Friends of Education from Skopje. Their brief was simple but ambitious: turn a blank page into the backbone of a six-month online incubation programme that will later coach 20 young social entrepreneurs from both countries.

The Spanish trio brought deep experience in feminist economics and social-impact evaluation; the Macedonian contingents added green-economy acceleration know-how and classroom-ready digital pedagogy. Together they sketched, debated, recorded and re-wrote until five core modules emerged: creative ideation for circular business models, sustainable activism, climate-finance literacy, EU Green-Deal impact metrics, and Gen-Z digital storytelling. Every module was stress-tested on the spot by four youth reviewers who had flown in from previous local hackathons, ensuring the final content feels more like a Netflix series than a traditional lecture.

Short video snippets were shot on location to anchor each lesson, and the group agreed on a micro-learning format—15-minute clips followed by downloadable toolkits—that will live on an open-source Moodle platform. Smartphone-first, fully bilingual in English, Spanish and Macedonian, the course is designed to travel as widely as the olive-pit waste-to-fertiliser idea dreamed up by participant Dimitar Mitev from Skopje. “The module on EU green funding gave me three concrete calls I can apply to next month,” he said during a coffee break overlooking the port.

Young people aged 18-30 living in North Macedonia or Spain can still apply until 15 April.