ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH - RECYCLE

Project title
ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH - RECYCLE
Project type
Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

The main idea: The main aim of this long-term project is acquiring knowledge and skills to participants about collecting and recycling systems of all kinds of homemade waste, waste management in self-sustainable household and waste management in Green cities.
In this long-term project we will teach participants that are working with young people between age of 15 and 30 how to collect and recycle every piece of homemade garbage, with emphasis on waste water, produced in their homes, their buildings and their cities. We will prepare them for new possibilities of creative self employment through starting their own business. During this long-term project young people will learn why is important to recycle all kinds of waste, strengthen circular economy and protect environment and health and acquire knowledge for easier employment and self employment. There will be also included young people with special needs and disability and economic obstacles to get them more socialized and to provide them ways of acquiring new skills and on this way to give them professional development training. Participants will be able to transfer their waste management and circular economy knowledge to their peers and to encourage the development of innovation in these areas through their professional careers. Knowledge acquired through this long-term project participants will use to build system for wastewater treatment in a single self-sustaining household that has arisen as a result of the use of knowledge and skills acquired in a previous Erasmus + project and which is used in local community for education of young people in ecology, energy efficiency and healthy way of life and will be basis for construction of ecological village with renewable energy sources and organic breeding food.

Period of implementation of all activities: 1th of November 2019 – 31th of December 2020

Activities:
Activity 1 (Study visit)
This activity will be implemented in a country that has eco-sustainable village. During Study visit in eco-village, participants will have workshop about circular economy and EU experience based recycling systems. We are looking for country that has examples of a good practice in the field of collecting and recycling homemade waste. We will spend eight days and gain some concrete knowledge about these topics and implement them during TC in Serbia.
Activity 2 (Training Course)
This activity will be implemented in Šabac, Serbia: workshops about circular economy, recycling and wastewater treatment, study visit to local wastewater treatment facility, generating ideas for wastewater treatment facility in ecological village, construction of small wastewater treatment system in self-sustaining household, spending time in work camp in nature, preparing organic food meals, the celebration marking the finish of work camp;
Activity 3 (Practical work)
During this activity participants will use and share knowledge they gained during the first two activities (Study visit and TC) in their local communities.
Activity 4 (Evaluation meeting)
This activity will ill last for 5 days. We will have evaluation of the project through the media promotion and the cultural and artistic program of the participating nations.
Activity 5 (Sharing of the project results)
During this activity, we will share the results and good practice in institutions in all participating countries.

Products: - During the first activity we expect to receive electronic anthology essays on the topics to be covered during the workshop.
- During second activity we expect to obtain small wastewater treatment system in self-sustaining household.
- During the third activity is expected to get completed documentary on the whole project and a few short videos on basic principles of circular economy, recycling and wastewater treatment.
Target group: People actively involved in work with unemployed young people with focus on youth with disabilities and economic obstacles (youth workers, youth leaders, NGO activists, school teachers, educators, social workers, volunteers).

Objectives: - to stimulate unemployed young people's mobility and active participation in local society, - to stimulate young people's spirit of initiative, their ability to think imaginatively and originally, - to promote the access of unemployed young people to Erasmus + program, - to raise young people's awareness about recycling and circular economy , - to encourage the development of "green" skills and behaviors among participants and their commitment to a more sustainable growth, - to promote ways of active social participation, and a way to acquire knowledge and skills useful for persons' professional development, - to create participant multipliers who will implement the knowledge and skills acquired during this long-term project in their local communities, - to increase the capacity of the organisations that are working on protecting natural environment.

Expected results: We expect that during this project participants gain knowledge and skills necessary to create new opportunities for employment and self-employment and to raise awareness of the need to recycle everything that is possible to recycle, especially waste water, according to the principles of circular economy. The local community through this project will get young active people aware that they need to be involved in social life and create conditions to facilitate employment especially of young people with disabilities and economic obstacles. As such they will be able to achieve a multiplier effect and to pass on their knowledge to peers. Also, the local community will get the possibility to conduct even more training programs in the field of ecology in this self-sustaining household that also can be used in the field of eco-tourism. Our country will receive clear example of youthful commitment on the acquisition of knowledge, their practical use for the benefit of the progress of the whole society and emphasizing the importance of interconnection, meeting, exchange of knowledge and experience and cooperation on projects of significance for the whole Europe.

Partner NGO`s:
We are looking for NGO that has good experience and good examples of eco-sustainable village. We plan to see some good examples of practice and then we will use that knowledge in Šabac, Serbia, where we plan to create our own eco village which will be training center and practically showroom for whole this part of the world.

Host organization:
Evropski centar za ekologiju - European Centre for Ecology is a voluntary, non-profit association, founded in indefinite time to achieve the objectives in the field of environmental protection.
The objectives of the association are: environmental protection, organization of activities on the rehabilitation of affected areas, raising cultural awareness, organization and participation in humanitarian action type, the protection of human and minority rights, the promotion of education, science and information, the impact on local policy development, development of local communities, the impact on youth policy, promotion of youth activism, organization and participation in sports and recreational events, organizing training of all categories of the population in all areas of the stated goals, civil society capacity building, networking with organizations and associations that promote the same or similar goals at home and abroad, promotion of all activities of the association.
If you are interested to become partner organization in our project please send to us:
Filled partnership identification form – like word document (.doc) by E-mail: eu.cen.eco@gmail.com

Deadline for receiving partnership agreements is 10th January 2019.
For further Information, please contact us:
Dejan Pavlovic / project manager
E-mail: pavlovic.dr.dejan@gmail.com
Mobile: +381 64 4111444