Orange Lifestyle
Start date: Mar 1, 2016,
End date: Feb 28, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
Project organizers wants to raise awareness on our impact on environment and society by wasting too much of resources, like water, electricity, forests and polluting air and water by driving cars, motor boats, ships, consuming too much of garbage and polluting ourselves by eating unhealthy, which all combined together in long-term brings our society to degradation, children overweight and reduce of intelligence level in society. We and our partners are young, open-minded students and recent graduates from different parts of Europe - Lisbon, Aachen, Brno and Riga, who have common idea - we want to make better living for each of us, our children and people around us and by this project we want to prove that even casual student (who often doesn’t have good income balance and is living modestly) can do a lot in name of common welfare and reduce energy consumption and give positive impact on environment by simple daily activities. Project will prove that living consciously is easy, fun and better for everyone. Main objective of project is to promote conscious lifestyle among youth by showing anexample how to make a positive impact on the environment by healthy, “green” behavior and recycling in order to encourage sustainable development. It is expected that in project 32 young Europeans will take part, out of which eight will be from Lisbon, Portugal, 8 from Brno, Czech Republic, 8 from Aachen, Germany and 8 from Riga, Latvia, most of participants are engineering students. In order to maintain the objective and the results of the project, project participants will work with different methods. Discussions, sharing sessions, reflection time, experience sharing, new practices, brainstorming and others will be used as working methods in order to share experiences, understandings, good and bad practices and realistic ideas how people, not regarding to their social or economical status, can implement in their lives healthy and conscious lifestyle habits in order to live more consciously with positive impact on health and environment. Presentations, public speeches will be used not only to develop participant soft skills, but also to share ideas and to give them to project partners and society. During workshops and outdoor activities, participants will develop their teamwork skills, as activities will be mainly in groups, letting participants to develop materials for exhibition, which will promote results of project and get to know more the real difficulties and benefits working in multi-national, multi-cultural teams. Throughout the project and especially in international evening cross-international awareness will be promoted and developed leaving participants and society around them enriched with more tolerant and understanding opinions and less stereotypical attitudes toward other cultures, nationalities and races. Each participant will have possibility to have self-evaluation, so participants can actually evaluate its impact on environment and changes he or she can actually make with daily activities, while improving health, soft skills and tolerance towards other people. The result and positive impact on changes of the way of thinking of participants and society around them in Riga, Brno, Lisbon, Aachen and further could be measured only in long term as main objective of project is to promote conscious lifestyle among youth. During the project participants, using different working methods through activities will develop new habits and will gain ideas about daily life and our impact on environment, our health and society. It is expected that project will develop ideas, summarized in short movie, about easily realizable daily activities and changes in behavior that will sum up to fulfilling the main objective of project, promoting conscious lifestyle in easy-understandable, easy-applicable and fun way.