Reduce-Reuse-Recycle-Recover

Reduce-Reuse-Recycle-Recover is a youth exchange focusing on the theme of creative recycling and how this can be used to develop working skills for youngsters. Reduce-Reuse-Recycle-Recover is a 10 day youth exchange focusing on the theme of creative recycling and how this can be used to develop working skills for youngsters. During the activity participants will actively practice creative recycling together with a team of experts in a peer to peer setting and discuss the issue of waste of goods in contemporary societies. The objects created will be functioning and usable in everyday life. Creating ideas on how to make functioning tools out of trash and put them into practice will develop skills and talents that can be useful for the participants in a longer term perspective, it will develop their spirit of entrepreneurship and have an employability dimension. Objectives a) To empower creativity and raise awareness on environmental issues, such as the possibility of reuse of recycled materials. b) To raise the employability of young people by combining creative work with non formal learning programme, and by offering a structured environment for self directed learning. c) To promote intercultural learning and cooperation among youngsters through the tool of creativity. d) To encourage young people to self express and express their background, culture and experience. e) To increase active participation of young people in the civic life of a community by providing a space for interaction, learning and sharing of knowledge and a possibility to show the outcomes of this process in an open event. f) To empower youth to become active citizens, through the sharing of critical knowledge and understanding of a sustainable way of living.