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Upcycling and Creating Together
Start date: Sep 6, 2016, End date: Feb 5, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Upcycling and Creating Together, is a youth exchange which will gather young people coming from seven european countries (Croatia, Slovenia, Spain, Italy, Poland, Portugal and France) framed in the KA1of ERASMUS + Program, which promotes the environmental movement that reuses waste materials so they can be not only use again but also being attractive.This project arises from different needs, such as the need of increasing environmental awareness, promoting the reflection about gender equality, promoting youth participation and also the need to have our own space for youth in La Huerta building, place used by rural development institutions in the region of Valle del Guadalhorce and where we want our perspective is also included. This context gives us space but it is not adapted to us, it is not a real youth space, so we wish to develop this project to use upcycling at the time that the created elements can be a board for our inspirations and social demands. Besides, we add the interest of the seven partner organizations of this project learning through a practical activity that has a social utility at the project ends.We will have five participants aged 18 to 27 years + a leader (no age limit) per country. We seek gender balance participation with at least 40-60 %, and especially young people coming from rural areas like us who want to explore its possibilities to use our creativity to transform waste materials into contemporary elements of use.The activities will focus among dynamics which promote knowledge, trust, teamwork, with creative work as well as the physical construction of material elements to finally expose and spread the results of the project. For this, the methodology used is experiential and non-formal, which means that we advocate for practice as a form of sustainable and transformative learning. Also using social research, to make our creations imbued of our willingness to promote the change for a more sustainable, equal and inclusive world.The results that we expect to achieve are the following, being in relation with our main goals: - To promote youth activism in social and environmental issues. - To spread the Erasmus + project among young people from rural areas and with fewer opportunities. - To increase environmental awareness, promoting innovative, sustainable and creative activities. - To fight against the “throwaway culture”, promoting alternatives such as different upcycling techniques. - To create a European Youth Space that could motivate and promote the creation of new projects and youth initiatives.- To promote gender equality through reflection and through our own actions. Furthermore, the biggest results of our project would be tangible and usable items such as furniture and decorative objects for a space for the youth Guadalhorce Valley or other associations of the region that will be also customized with equality messages. Also they will remain short video tutorials on how to use tools or how to build furniture out of waste materials.The expected impact and benefits it will be, on one hand, for us people who participate in it, it will be to know a technique that we consider revolutionary to care for our environment and revolutionary for ourselves because it gives us tools for self empowerment and take responsibility of practical skills that will be useful for all our life. On the other hand, this project will have an impact in other people and groups in the long term, because it will make possible to create a motivating and available space for other youth initiatives, and it will be also an example of good practices in the regions of our partners, promoting the support of youth spaces so young people could get involved in European projects which will raise from their own initiatives, with all the benefits it can have: autonomy, youth entrepreneurship, creativity, responsibility, development of key competences and exchange of good practices.

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