Transcript Diapositiva 1

An international partnership is responsible for the Project.
Associazione di volontariato INCREDERE (IT)
ASOCIATIA COLTHEIM (RO)
Active Youth Association (TR)
EQUUS ZEBRA (ES)
EcoAct Project
June 2013
Geoclube – Associação Juvenil de Ciência,
Natureza e Aventura (PT)
"This project has been funded with support from the European Commission, Youth in
Action Program. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the
Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the
information contained therein."
EcoAct
EcoAct is an European project co-financed by the Programme YOUTH
IN ACTION 2012 (Action 1.1 Youth Exchanges), and promoted by the
“Associazione di voluntariato INCREDERE”.
When and Where?
The project took place from 3rd to 10th of June 2013, in Pratarelle,
Orvinio, Italy at Casa per Ferie “San Michele” (arrival on 2nd of June
and departure on 11th of June 2013).
The main OBJECTIVES of the project were:
1. To get a deeper knowledge on environment and climate change
2. To raise young people's awareness and mobilization in tackling
global environmental challenges and climate change
3. To encourage the development of green skills and behaviors
among young people and youth leaders and their commitment
to a more sustainable growth by actively involving the young
participants in defining actions against climate change
4. To discover and become aware of different social and cultural
realities
Youth Exchange Activities
The youth have actively participated in the following ACTIVITIES
based on climate change and sports:
 Energizers: every morning a country group has organized a
short activity aiming to wake up and catch the attention of the
participants before starting the working day.
What is it?
Groups of young people, from 5 different countries: Italy, Romania,
Turkey, Portugal and Spain representing a mix group of young
people and young people with fewer opportunities met in Italy,
attended and got a deeper knowledge on environment and climate
change, raising young people's awareness and mobilization in
tackling global environmental challenges and climate change thus
encouraging the development of green skills and behaviors among
young people and youth leaders and their commitment to a more
sustainable growth, focusing on benefits of exploring cultural
diversity and its implications. During the youth exchange there were
facilitated organized creative and sport activities, excursions and
special workshops. Furthermore, the activities were developed in
teams, thus the youth had the opportunity to learn how to work
together in a culturally diverse teams.
 Workshops such as….
• Intercultural communication: the workshop was carried
out in order to give the participants some insight in how
cultural differences can lead to friction in mutual
communications.
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Introduction to the Climate Change issue: this workshop
stimulated the participants to reflect and gain
understanding about the topic, how they can get involved,
and what their needs are in such a situation and what they
can do. By sharing these experiences the participants
recognized that they share many feelings, which stimulates
mutual understanding and create opportunities of acting,
becoming conscious of environmental changes and the
need to change their behaviour.
EcoActing I and II: in the first part of the Workshop the
participants have learnt how to increase people awareness
through flash mob. In the second part, they have worked in
mix groups to create a flashmob on climate change.
Finally, the most voted flashmob was carried out by all the
participants in Orvinio Village and published on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAk0OrMhA9o
 Video Lab awareness: in small groups the participants have
prepared a video for an awareness raising campaign on climate
change and the most voted one was published on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfSxy1d17oU
 Art & Environment: the aim of this activity was to make the
participants reflect on the learning of the week and in a creative
way to use the knowledge gained to develop an art piece/
statue made by objects from the nature.
 Country traditional outdoor sport/ game: each day one
participant country toughed the other participants how to play
one traditional sport game with the aim of approaching the
young participants to the environment that surrounds them and
promoting healthy behaviours among them.
 Multicultural evenings - Country Presentation: during the
multicultural evenings the participants had the opportunity to
learn more about the other participants´ countries and so, to
understand their different traditions, cultures and social
realities, through music, dance and food. Each Day one of the
participants´ country has presented the most representative
aspects regarding their country and shared with the other young
participants some traditional meals, songs and dances.