The goal of the project is to revitalize the local community by creating opportunities for young people with reduced opportunities to learn the skills needed to create an environmentally conscious community and start social entrepreneurship.
BASIC INFORMATION
Topic: promoting environmental protection and sustainable development
Date: 01.02.2021. - 01.02.2022.
Location: Samobor, Croatia
Number of participants: 2
Age of participants: 18 - 30 years
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- Raising awareness of young people about environmental protection, healthy lifestyles and sustainable development
- Achieving continuity in the education of children and youth in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development by connecting institutions, exchanging good practices in joint work
- Raising the motivation of participants to become socially active: growing food and interacting with other individuals to maintain greenery in order to create environmentally conscious communities through joint activities
- Popularization of agronomy through the acquisition of appropriate skills
- Revitalization of the rural area
- Encouraging social entrepreneurship
- Promotion of the EU Youth Program and the values of the European Solidarity Corps
METHODS AND ACTIVITIES
This project is based on non-formal education methods, which support the active involvement of participants and focus on their self-reflection and documenting learning outcomes. Such methods also encourage young people to choose their own approaches and methods that offer them flexibility and freedom in exploring their emerging interests.
WORKSHOPS
The project includes two levels of implementation:
1- Workshops in kindergartens and schools aimed at educating participants with fewer opportunities and young people about green walls as examples of good practice in promoting environmental protection, healthy lifestyles and sustainable development in their immediate environment, and about all the elements they need to create green walls - seedlings, materials and maintenance;
2 - Public activities in the local community: setting up test green walls in the Bunker Youth Center and disseminating the project results to the citizens. The project includes the organization of a public forum at the local Bunker Youth Center, open to the public with lecturers in the field of environmental protection. By the end of the project activities, volunteers with children and young people, with the help of educators and teachers, will develop a guide to building green walls, based on activities and their results, which will be distributed through institutions and the Internet to promote environment and sustainable development.
INFLUENCE
By participating in the project, volunteers will confirm their motivation to gain new knowledge and experience and show that they nurture values such as solidarity. In doing so, this will give them a better insight into the importance of inclusion, structured learning, responding to needs, focusing on real impact and taking action in the local community.
The special impact on volunteers will be reflected in the learning outcomes themselves, such as the development of social and civic skills, interculturalism, a sense of initiative, entrepreneurship, the strengthening of language competences and learning.
In terms of further continuing education and professional development, the project will allow participants to make plans for further education, either formally or informally.
Also, participants will get a clearer picture of the direction in which they want to develop their career and will gain more confidence to look for a new job or start their own entrepreneurial venture.
Through independent living in a new environment, participants will develop a sense of responsibility and skill in dealing with unfamiliar situations and interacting with different people. At the same time, skills of accepting different cultures will be developed that will benefit the local community at the same time.
The biggest benefits that volunteers will benefit from participating in the European Solidarity Force project are self-awareness, the ability to work with other people, trying new things, developing knowledge and skills, and interculturalism and solidarity.
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