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KA1- Youth Workers Mobility




AGAINST FOOD WASTE: EMPOWER YOUTH & MAKE A CHANGE

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AGAINST FOOD WASTE

EMPOWER YOUTH & MAKE A CHANGE

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The United Nations has decreed, by 2030, a set of Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) that aim to solve/mitigate some of society's biggest problems in order to
ensure a sustainable, integrated and inclusive future for all. One of its SDGs
is “Responsible Consumption and Production” (SDG 12). Among its different goals,
there is one aimed at reducing (by half) food waste. This SDG is based on a
growing and serious reality of increasing food waste. According to the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), per year, “(...) 931
million tons of food end up in the garbage. As a result, all the resources that
were used in food production, including water, land use, energy, human labour
and capital, are also wasted.” This waste is shocking when we look at the
reality of countries and contexts with difficulties in accessing food for
subsistence, in many cases, basic. According to the same source, “811 million
people go hungry and an additional 132 million suffer from the threats of food
insecurity, especially with the Covid-19 pandemic.” Food waste, which is a
contradiction in terms of the inequality of access to food in different
contexts, causes a set of problems that, without resolution, will remain and
will bring numerous constraints to environmental sustainability and the planet
itself. Therefore, it is important to alert, raise awareness and empower
populations to the serious problem that is food waste so that there can be a
reversal or attenuation of the waste cycle and, with that, promote communities
with greener and more sustainable standards and behaviours. It is in this sense
that the idea of the project was born. Today’s young people are tomorrow’s
adults and those who, more than anyone else, should be aware of the seriousness
of risky behaviours with regard to food waste and the effects of these on their
lives and on their planet. We therefore intend to promote work in close
proximity with youth workers (YW) so that they are trained on the themes,
exchange experiences and knowledge, bet on new intervention models based on
non-formal methods and manage to work and empower young people in adoption. of
more sustainable and more balanced behaviours. In addition, through joint action
between the YW, we aim to improve and reinforce their personal, social and
professional capacities and, consequently, to increase the innovative vector of
the youth sector.


OBJECTIVES

The main objective, the social inclusion of young people in all its aspects,
with particular emphasis on decision-making regarding social and environmental
changes, as well as the needs, will be fulfilled through the specific objectives
defined according to SMART logic:

01

Promote the development of essential competences among YWs for improvement,
innovation and higher quality of youth work;

03

Promote non-formal learning opportunities to develop the competences and
capacities of YWs and organizations

05

Promoting a network of YW specialized and active in the youth sector,
environmental sustainability and social inclusion;

02

Promoting the exchange of knowledge and experience between peers to strengthen
and specialize professionally and in the youth sector

04

Stimulate the production of quality results in the youth sector

02

Foster the growth of local, regional, national and European projects and
initiatives to work with young people




WHERE


LISBON, PORTUGAL

From March 11th

to March 15th of 2024


PARTNERS

Discover our consortium of partners.
Together, we represent a team dedicated to the success of this Erasmus+ project

1

Express Yourself, Latvia

2

Asociatia Tinerilor Cu Initiativa Civica, Romania

3

Gramigna, Italy



4

Just do it, Poland

5

You in Europe, Greece

6

Estrellas del Sur, Spain


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CONTACT

Lisbon, Portugal

geral@utopiaverde.pt

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