ECOCITY
Type of program: 1.1 Multilateral Youth Exchange
Time: 20.06.2011 – 29.06.2011
Location: Oradea
Participating Countries: Romania, Hungary, France, and Spain (6 participants/promoter)
Main supporter: Agenţia Natională pentru Programe Comunitare în Domeniul Educaţiei şi Formării Profesionale through the Youth in Action Programme
The project emphasized a global problem and challenge which affects the environment, the life of people and the future of new generations: the problem of garbage, of waste. This problem approached through the attitude and behavior of people. The main goal of the project was to make the participants and the local community aware of their behavior, stimulating them to judge the inappropriate attitude and to “adopt” a green and eco-friendly attitude: do not throw the waste on the street
and in not allowed places, to “reduce, reuse, and recycle”. During the project the participants planed, organized and realized a campaign consisting of films, photos and informative flyers and posters.
On the day of the campaign the participants distributed and presented these materials to the local community in an agglomerated point of the city,and in the Cinema Libertatea , encouraging people to recycle and to consume consciously.
The project contributed to the social and personal development of youth and established intercultural dialog between the participants and between the participants and the local community.
The activities of the projects were based on the principles of non formal learning, including brainstorming, round-table discussions, creative activities, workshops and fieldwork. During the project we had round table discussion with the RER company and we visited the ECO BIHOR company at the city dump.
