Search for European Projects

"Creation of a network of facilitators for better living with plants"
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Across Europe, more and more people are experiencing food poverty as the cost of living increases including the price of food. In days gone by, people had the knowledge and capacity to be able to grow their own food, but this is no longer the case. Growing in allotments and cooking at home are both declining skills amongst those populations. Fewer young adults in difficulty know how to : - Grow vegetables and fruit - Cook for themselves - Use plants to create or decorate Our project aims to develop vegetable education for persons in difficulty through actions such as : - creation of methods, teaching and intellectual tools on Web, - creation of a better living using vegetables, through the work of coaches, trainers, social workers, following the model of the facilitators innovated by "Les Anges Gardins". - dissemination and communication on a new range of services towards the targeted public. Through this project partners will share their experiences (effective methods transfer), co-create new approaches to use vegetables to bring knowledges and skills to a public with social and employment difficulties. We identify 4 domains : 1. Gardening (growing vegetables, flowers) 2. Cooking (to feed oneself, to please) 3. Creation&beauty (transforming-using for creative arts) 4. Nature (knowing and using wild plants for eating) The program is thus going to allow the emergence of the NETPLANTS' network , a facilitators for good-living with vegetable's network : - Creation of contents for the animation of workshops for people in difficulty - Creation of free and downloadable online courses - Creation of a social networks community, on Youtube and Facebook - Kits for educational suitcases - Recommendations for the local, national and European politics for integration The co-construction between trainers and trainees through experimental activities of training, evaluation time and co-construction of educational methods make all together the originality of project. Will be part of the project : - 76 persons in difficulty - 24 professionnals - more than 600 partners (local authorities, social workers, adult education organizations...) during the national dissemination seminars Thanks to the network development, to the public financing within the framework of politics of integration, to the support of foundations and private companies which are more and more interested in the link between vegetable and human resources, the program is economically viable and its continuation wished as possible.
Up2Europe Ads

Coordinator

Details

5 Partners Participants