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“Collaborative Consumption - chance for sharing”
“Collaborative Consumption - chance for sharing”
Start date: May 1, 2016,
End date: Dec 31, 2016
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FINISHED
TC - "Collaborative Consumption - Chance for Sharing" is about a new class of economic arrangements, where the participants share access to products or services, rather than having individual ownerships. In the modern world CC, is the perfect tool that could be used also for youth work. The project will analyze the sharing movement and equip youth workers with new tools that will help them to use these platforms in concrete projects at local and international level. TC - is concentrated on giving information about different types and methods of shared economy sharing the idea of CC. -The objectives of the TC are to:•Raise awareness towards CC and promote its idea•Promote use of CC tools in youth work, especially among countries from EECA region•Promote cooperation between EU and neighboring countries•Joint work of youngsters coming from different cultures and promoting tolerance•Build new partnerships•Provide creative and innovative tools of social economy•Work on the concept of collective sharing, CC, social economy•Strengthening entrepreneurship of young people through networks in the context of social innovation•Share the best practices of youth work and non-formal education•Encourage young people to become active European citizensTC will take place in a Sea resort of Georgia - Kobuleti, 23-30 June. 2016 and will bring together 36 youngsters from 8 different EU and EECA countries. (Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Poland, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova.) The participants profile: NGO members/ volunteers, young leaders, youth workers, youth with fewer opportunities.Different activities and workshops have been planed:Presentation of the project and an introduction to the topic of Sharing economy and Collaborative Consumption; Collaborative consumption (CC)Sharing platforms; Time banking – volunteering sharing knowledge; Exchange market / 1010 ways to buy without money; and so on. Group building activities and ice breakers will help participants to create strong team atmosphere. Different games will be implemented what ensures the highest involvement of participants on every stage of the project. -The working methods will be based on non-formal education activities, with creative and practical examples, using innovative techniques as human library and time-banking, and discovering new ones based on Collaborative Consumption sources. It will help to valporize the knowledge of the participants in the topic, and increasing their self-confidence. TC will give special importance to the intercultural learning process, through inter-cultural nights, but also motivating the mix of nationalities in working groups, and even during the free time.-As a result participants will get useful information about different CC models and will implement this in their everyday life and work. The discovery and implementation of sharing behaviors impact them also to identify means through which the address the economic crisis that Europe is experiencing in recent years and to identify alternative ways to curb youth unemployment by stimulating the creativity and decision initiative. The learning based on practical experience and methodologies of non-formal education, will inform young participants about the benefits of living in a society based on the values of sharing, tolerance and sustainability and to acquire in their daily behaviors with low environmental impact. The participants will reflect and question their habits and behaviors, improve the quality of life of the individual and on the other end help to strengthen social relationships through solidarity.-After the project the participants will be given a task to implement the received knowledge in practice and experience different types of Collaborative consumption- CC. Also a manual about CC and sharing economy will be created by the participants, tools to use in youth work.