Seeds for Sustainable Development
Start date: Mar 1, 2016,
End date: Feb 28, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
Seeds for Sustainable Development focus on the issue of sustainable development and aims to make citizens aware about their impact on the environment, their role in the process of creating sustainable future and their options for making more sustainable choices, as well as to enhance the capacities of various stakeholders (non-governmental organizations, local municipalities, businesses) implemented sustainable development in their practices. The project consists 3 mobility activities: training course aiming to develop competencies of the participants in the field of sustainable development with focus on raising their competences to create projects motivating public to life more sustainable lifestyle; youth exchange designed to raise awareness about sustainable development especially among rural youth who is lacking opportunities to attend activities giving them possibilities for personal and professional development. And job shadowing that is included in the project with aim to provide individuals from participating organizations an opportunity to spend up to 2 months in other participating organization and learn from their practices. Moreover, job shadowing will be for the person visiting and both organizations especially an opportunity to share common practices from their realities, discuss issues concerning both sides and reflect on the way how good working practices could be transfer from one reality to other taking in consideration the specifics of the communities. All activities will be based on non-formal approach and aims to meeting following objectives: to strengthened knowledge of the participants and participating organizations in the field of sustainable development and it is various aspects including social dimension of sustainable development; to provide the participants space to increase their knowledge about the issue of science, technology and innovation (STI) in sustainable development and encourage them to reflect on the ways how they can integrate STI in their practices; to increase participants understanding of grassroots innovations for sustainable development and encourage them implement these practices in their realities and to help the participants to realize their own role in the process of creating sustainable societies and promote their active involvement in solving environment issues and challenges.Key products of the project will be video tutorial, handbook of good practices and video clip. All products will be develop with aim to raise awareness about sustainable development among wide public and motivate citizens, institutions and organizations to implement sustainable development in their daily practices. Project will be implemented by Association Rhythm of health and will bring together participants from following countries: Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Portugal and Macedonia.
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