ECO CARAVAN
Start date: Mar 2, 2013,
“Eco Caravan” will bring 36 young people from EU and partner countries to increase the awareness of young people on nature, ecology, recycling and environment pollution issues. The project will support to research environmental pollution problems, how environment effects our the life and it will promote deeper understanding of the linkages between energy, climate change, social and development issues. The Youth Exchange will support youth to put in practice for their own community what they will experience during Youth Exchange and act as multipliers in their home countries. During the meeting we ll be use non formal education techniques, the program will be based on interactive workshops, games, round tables, debates and presentations, , recycling efforts, information campaign (World Environment Day - 5 June), ECO Art and photo exhibitions and tree planting and clean-up campaigns. The participants will move around Georgia to visit different place and research ecological issues of the country. The activity will promote successful cooperation, certainly under condition of mutual tolerance and interest to comprehended culture of each other and develop intercultural dialog related to environmental protection field and to demonstrate the best methods to implement it in own communitiesThis Youth Exchange has a goal to show how people of different cultures can unite their views on life, opinions, experiences and expressions in creating their final general “map of diversity and mutual understanding”, also basis for cooperation, nevertheless for the follow up activity it is considered to create a calendar which will be illustrated with the photoes of the nature will be made by the participants. The project will support the youth mobility, their active participation in Youth in Action Programme and development of the networking between the partners, realization common projects and learn different possibilities Youth in Action Programme gives.