Creating an Online Youth Project as a Technology of Civil Initiatives of the Urban Ecological Space

creating conditions for the implementation of youth civic initiatives solves environmental problems in the urban environment. The article substantiates the use of modern information technologies and the online format as an approach to the formation of environmental competence of young people. The article discusses the experience of various regions of Russia in the manifestation of youth civic initiatives in the field of environmental protection, provides research results to justify the use of the online community for the purpose of education, increasing the level of environmental knowledge, as well as communications and interactions of representatives of various state, public structures, and the scientific community on environmental issues on platforms that are authentic to the modern generation. The result of the project is the formation of environmental competence, environmental practices implemented within a single urban environment.