Promoting ORGANIC PRODUCTION

Enhancing YOUTH EMPLOYMENT

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

involve disadvantaged youngsters from rural areas

in their territories’ life

by training them ontheir areas’ economic and

environmental demands andtheir potential role in local public life

while enhancing rural sustainable development through the

promotion of organic farming and providing participants with professional contacts with local organic farmers

1. EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

5-DAY EVENTS:

2 day-seminar on youth civic participation & organic farming

3-day training on ICT and digital mapping

&

Sopot,

BULGARIA

Tallinn,

ESTONIA

Laurino andMesagne,ITALY

Pula and

Osijec,

CROATIA

Nicosia,CYPRUS

2. MEETING THE ORGANIC FARMERSThe most active participants of the educational

events were selected to continue the adventure.

Thanks to the skills acquired during their training, they started to digitally map the organic farmers

working in their geographical area.

They went to meet them and developed their national webpage with all the information collected

on the ground!

3. AND THEN… THE DISSEMINATION!The participants of the project have been very active

in the dissemination of what they leant during the

activities, through the creation and promotion of the

website of POPEYE,

http://www.popeye-alda.eu/

and all other kinds of local initiatives.

4. THE FINAL EVENT IN STRASBOURG

This was the exchange activity at the end of the

project, in which around 100 young people

participated to express their opinions and views

on their achievements thanks to POPEYE

The event took place in Strasbourg, FRANCE

HOW ABOUT POPEYE’S IMPACT?• Number of youngsters attending the educational activity: more than 200

• Number of youngsters fully participating in project’s activities: more than 100

• Number of local farmers mapped: 67

• Number of internships identified in the organic field: more than 20

• Number of dissemination events organised by participants independently: more than 20

• Quality of the website: high, you can check out yourself the great work participants have done in developing it!

DO YOU NEED MORE INFO?Visit the website created by the

participants of POPEYE!http://www.popeye-alda.eu/

Or contact:Aldo XHANI

ALDA – European Association for Local DemocracyCoordinator of the Citizenship Programme

aldo.xhani@aldaintranet.org+32 (0)2 430 24 08