REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE
Reduce - Reuse - Recycle is a 10 day youth exchange in Ommen, the Netherlands focusing on the theme of creative recycling and how this can be used to develop working skills for 30 youngsters, youth leaders and volunteers of 5 European countries (Netherlands, Romania, Greece, Malta, Italy).
The Mission.
The mission of this youth exchange is to empower creativity and raise awareness on environmental issues, such as the possibility of reducing consumes, reusing the products, recycling them and so forth act responsibly towards environment.
Participants of this project will practice to identify environmental issues and create promotional media products on these issues.
During the activity participants will actively practice creative recycling together with a team of experts in a peer to peer setting and discuss the issue of waste of goods in contemporary societies. The objects created will be functioning and usable in everyday life. Creating ideas on how to make functioning tools out of trash and put them into practice will develop skills and talents that can be useful for the participants in a longer term perspective, it will develop their spirit of entrepreneurship and have an employability dimension.
Inspiration.
We believe that everyone can recycle. The question is how much aware are we not only of recycling but reducing and reusing. Reducing Reusing and Recycling are all parts of a chain that are interconnecting.
In this exchange we want to examine all the three parts of this chain and approach them with a creative way.
The Goals.
During REDUCE – REUSE - RECYCLE participants work in a structure that gives them opportunities to share their experience on environmental issues, reducing waste, reusing products and create artwork with recycled materials, participate in workshops, receive feedback, and continuously improve their skills.
After 4 days in the exchange, participants choose a product to develop. A product can be a recycled piece of art, a series of useful recycled items etc.
Our objectives for this project are:
- To empower creativity and raise awareness on environmental issues, such as the possibility of reducing consumes, reusing the products, recycling them and so forth act responsibly towards environment.
- To raise the employability of young people by combining creative work with non formal learning programme and by offering a structured environment for self directed learning.
- To promote intercultural learning and cooperation among youngsters through the tool of creativity.
- To encourage young people to self express and express their background, culture and experience.
-To increase active participation of young people in the civic life of a community by providing a space for interaction, learning and sharing of knowledge and a possibility to show the outcomes of this process in an open event.
- To empower youth to become active citizens through the sharing of critical knowledge on environmental issues and understanding of a sustainable way of living.