Eat slow, move fast

"Eat slow, move fast" is a Youth Exchange based on the development of skills and informations related to the Slow Food, to thehealthy diet and active lifestyle, with the aim of teaching to participants how to improve their eating habits and reduce the waste of food.

The project involves the informal group Italian "The Neverland", the Germany association "Haus der offenen Tür", the Estonianassociation "Mittetulundusühing Youth Senate Tallinn" and the Coratian "Mladi za Marof" for a total of 32 (Thirty-two) people and6 (six) activity days.

The partecipants of the exchange are involved in laboratories, workshops and lessons about the Slow Food and the zerokilometer food; in particular, there are challenges of cooking with healthy foods, sports competitions to encourage a healthylifestyle and informative lessons on foods and products.

Participants are active part of the project activities, cause a constructive approach, based on freedom of thought, culturalexchange, mutual intuition and personal creativity, can help people to really change their habits in a better way.

All the activities are done by adopting informal learning methods: we use role play and team building to develop participants
skills, we use non formal exercises for every information that we provide and we always encourage free thinking and free expression of thoughts and feelings.

Intercultural communication are developed through work in mixed groups, through the cultural nights and through showing the cultural traditions and especially Italian food.

The main purpose of the project is to connect local community of small producers of Ferrara with international young and active people from other countries all around Europe, to sharing knowledge and experiences.This is also a great opportunity to promote Italian products in foreign countries.

"Eat slow, move fast" was choosen as a good practice example: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-details/#project/14183128-bf9e-428c-bf32-b179f5b50388

http://neverland-erasmus.it/eat-slow-move-fast/