SAVING – Educating youth on food security and reduction of food waste for a sustainable lifestyle
EU Programme: Erasmus+ KA2: Strategic Partnerships YOUTH
Reference: 2021-1-ES02-KA220-YOU-000028742
Start date: 01/11/2021
End date: 01/11/2023
In recent years it is growing the understanding of the important role of food security, to enhance the social, physical and mental well-being of people and to have a more sustainable impact on a personal level and on the environment.
However, in order to effectively address the problem of food security, together with youth poverty, we will work to engage youth workers, who will be trained on these topics through the learning tools provided.
Youth workers, social workers, educators, trainers involved will use these tools to engage young people at risk of poverty and social exclusion, to empower them, so having a positive impact on their physical and mental health and personal development.
- To promote cross-sectorial cooperation in the fields of youth work and sustainable environment, society and economy on the topics of food security and zero food waste.
- To develop key competences of youth workers and other personnel who support disadvantaged young people at risk of exclusion, in the field of food security and zero food waste.
- To promote awareness of the importance of food security and highlighting the roles that each individual can take towards becoming food secure.
- Mapping local experiences on sustainability, food security and zero food waste in all participating countries.
- Engagement of local stakeholders and key actors in all territories involved.
- Organising local focus groups in all target regions to identify learning needs.
- Creating the e-learning platform and the e-learning modules in form of OERs (self-paced learning modules to be explored interactively and free to download).
- SAVING OERs – Open Educational Resources: to promote sustainability, food security and zero food waste culture among young at risk of exclusion: prototype, testing and validation
- SAVING Training Modules:
I. Sustainable environment, society, economy
II. Organic treatments and weather-based food production
III. Socio-professional wellbeing of youth
IV. Food security and zero food waste
V. Definition of a sustainable strategy to reduce food waste
Results
- Equipped Youth Workers from the target regions with knowledge, key competences and practical tools in the field of food security and zero food waste.
- Strengthened synergies and cooperation between educational/social key actors and their beneficiaries in the target regions in the field of food security and zero food waste.
- Increased self-awareness of young people at risk about the importance of food security for their personal development.
- Increased self-awareness of young people about how to prevent and reduce food waste.
- Strengthened transnational cooperation and exchange of existing learning practices between organizations and key stakeholders in the society in the field of food security and zero food waste.
- Raised awareness on environment protection actions to be implemented.
Co-experts
- Youth workers that are interested about food security and how to reduce food waste, working for young people at risk of exclusion in their local communities.
- Young people at risk of exclusion.
Keywords
Food waste management, Environmental sustainability, Food security, Youth inclusion.
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