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Youth in action, Sustainable Europe: tool for inclusion of young people Vasto, Italy, 12th-21st July 2009
The Association Agenda 21 participated in the training that took place between the 12th and the 21st July, in the Italian region of Abruzzo in Vasto, whose subject was the sustainable development. The team, composed of three persons (Daniela Şerban, Diana Oancea, Valentin Beregan) gave its contribution to the both workshops organized by the host country (Communication and Education), working along with other thirty young people from nine European countries (Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia, Albania, Macedonia, Portugal, Italy, Spain and Belgium). During the eight days of activities, the aim of the training was to build a team able to realize tools capable of disseminating messages about sustainable development and environmental protection through a responsible behaviour. The team building activities (ice breaker games, forum theatre) were associated from the beginning with visits to natural reserves (Punta Aderci, Penne) or to other places of interest for the training (Di Vaira Farm, Vasto), helping the persons from the Communicational workshop to collect video, audio and photographic material.
The methodology used during the whole programme was ORA (observe, rethink, act). This was the support for realizing some practical activities in which the local community was involved. During the 18th and the 19th of July, the participants from the Educational workshop organized ecological games for the children in Punta Aderci Reserve; during the evening of 19th July the team that worked in the Communicational workshop presented to the local community of Vasto the movies and the slideshows realized during their visits to areas which were not affected by industrialization, for which the authorities were able to find appropriate solutions. During the nights, the host coordinated participants’ debates with persons involved in protecting areas of Italy, with representatives of some NGOs that work in ecology and thus they improved the empathy with the training goal.
The last day of the training, in which we had discussions about projects that are about to be organized, was also the chance to see the success of the program and to become aware of the fact that its objectives will be absolutely reached only if within the youtube channel the collaboration between the participants will continue. Sustainable development can be an easy target only if it becomes a part of our daily life and if what the training reached to build will be disseminated by us through good practices. |
