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
[email protected]+32 (0)2 430 24 08