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YE The story of the plastic bottle
Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Within eight days exchange YE The story of the plastic bottle, the participants were encouraged to take part in different non-formal activities and through them to get to know more about different ecological issues as well as about different attitudes of European countries to the main ecological problems as recycling, or looking for alternative sources of energy and the global environmental challenges. The participants not only took part in discussions or in workshops, they also had a chance improve their creative skills and together created new art through creative recycling techniques. Besides the ecological workshops and creative recycling activities, the participants learned about photography and got to know basic photographic skills. At the end of the project, the participants connected ecology, creativity and photography and share their new knowledge through the performance in Riga and brought ecology and recycling topic to people. This project promoted active citizenship of young people and raised the topic of youth participation. The participants worked in the intercultural environment. Therefore, they developed social skills and the better understanding of the cultural differences, which leads to the development of tolerance and solidarity. The project “The story of the plastic bottle” was held in city Riga and together with 42 participants and leaders from Latvia, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Romania and Macedonia.
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