The Waste of Plenty is the Source of Scarcity

Partner Countries: Finland, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Turkey

BACKGROUND
With today's technology, we are using many electronic devices. We eat food more than we need and we use water sometimes unnecessarily. Instead of walking, biking, or public transport, we started to use our private cars. We are cutting the trees to produce more papers. We do not plug out our electronic devices when we do not use them. It also affects the overconsumption. We use much water for a daily shower; our taps are open while we are brushing our teeth. Normally, we do not care about how many papers we consume in a year. Shortly, all these unconscious usage and overconsumption result in global warming and other types dangerous events. Therefore, we should do something more to create the sensibility on overconsumption of nature’s sources. From different parts of European Union, young people and decision makers will come together to brainstorm and learn new knowledge on overconsumption. All European countries presenting an increasing dissimilarity between different groups of their populations and there are highly important differences between individual countries as well.
Project Details:
“The Waste of Plenty is the Source of Scarcity” project is going to take place in Aksaray city in Turkey. It will last for 8 days. The project language will be English. The participants will meet to improve their knowledge and experiences about Consuming. Consuming involuntarily is one of the biggest problem of our people. Although we do not really need much, we consume much. Today’s youth has lack of consciousness on this issue. The participants will exchange their knowledge and experiences with each other about overconsumption and wasting. Non-formal education techniques will be mostly used in this training. The coordinator of the project is Youth Volunteers Ardent Prudence.

The Project aims to:  To find out what kind of things we are consuming unnecessarily  How can we reduce this consumption  Brainstorm and learn new knowledge on overconsumption.  To improve their knowledge and experiences about Consuming  To create awareness on consuming the nature's source unconsciously and in a huge amount.
Methodology:
 Icebreakers  Workshop, Competitions  Visual presentations;  Group work, group discussions and brainstorming;  Presentation of the Youth Program;  Group debates, Drama  Presentation cultures, countries and institutions  Presentations and activities shaped by Non-formal education techniques on overconsumption and wasting.
We invite partners to contribute to the training course regarding:  the presentation of own activities (projects, methods etc.) in the field of health promotion and youth work (on a local, regional, national or European level)  the exchange and discussion of the presented and developed activities  getting involved in projects planned or presented during the training course  The development of new project ideas and approaches
Food and accommodation will be fully covered during the training course. Travel expenses: Unit costs of travel costs.
Partner Form and Mandate Form should be filled, signed, stamped and send to by e-mail before 25 April 2017