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Toolkit realised during the Erasmus+ Training Course "Social Enterprise & Natural Capital" that took place from 4th to 13th September 2023 in Borrello (Province of Chieti, Abruzzo Region, Italy).
The Toolkit has been realised with the idea to highlight links and connection between Social Enterprise and Natural Capital tackling a common element to all our countries and realities: the food and its related elements such as quality lifestyles and environmental standards. At the same time, main goal is to provide tools, methods and approaches to facilitate the involvement of Young People in the sustainable development of our communities.
Promoting the connection between Social Enterprise and Natural Capital is not easy: in fact we found that the subject is very broad, taking in such diverse areas as tourism, waste management, animal husbandry, agriculture and health services. We came to the conclusion that our Social Enterprise and Natural Capital (SENC) approach needed a tighter focus in order to explore the subject in a practical, manageable way. In conjunction with all the involved partners, we decided that this focus would be food, from production and growing, to delivery and cooking, through to uses for food waste.
With this in mind we developed an experimental Training Course which took place in Borrello, Abruzzo, between the 4th and 13th of September 2023. Prior to the course, we asked participants to research the production of food in their home countries, allowing us to compare the ‘food calendars’, used to map out seasonal availabilities of food, from areas across Europe. We also asked them to select a few recipes typical to their countries and, for the first few days of the week, we were treated to no less than 24 practical cooking activities, each hosted by participants in which those recipes were taught to the group as a whole. These recipes were selected based five main characteristics: slow, seasonal, responsible, traditional and local.
The first two sections of this Toolkit outline the recipes and food calendars produced by the participants and collaborators. The final section reveals the outcomes from two days of theme based activities; Entrepreneurship, Education and Social Communication in which participants applied their learning from the practical activities and further explored the field of social enterprise, natural capital, sustainability and food production. They developed products, concepts and initiatives that can be expanded during further projects that aim to promote the development of Social Enterprise activities through the use of Natural Capital and, in a more general way, to facilitate processes of active involvement of young people within our local communities.
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http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/4677
This tool is for
Youth workers, Educators, Peer Educators, Volunteers, Young people
and addresses
Social Inclusion, Personal Development, Environment
The tool was created by
ARCI Circolo Territoriale Chieti APS
in the context of
Erasmus+ Training Course
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Giorgio Micoli (on 17 May 2025)
and last modified
15 January 2025
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