Scambio giovanile internazionale "Mediterranean Diet"

Cerchiamo partecipanti per uno scambio giovanile internazionale a San Giorgio a Cremano sul tema della Dieta Mediterranea, finanziato dal programma Youth in Action della commissione europea. Lo scambio coinvolge partecipanti proveniente da Spagna, Grecia e Turchia e si terrà dal 4 all'11 maggio. L'obiettivo dello scambio è di riscoprire e valorizzare i prodotti e le tradizioni culinarie locali, utilizzando il cibo come strumento di conoscenza delle altre culture. Per ogni uteriore informazione è possibile scrivere una mail ai seguenti indirizzi: andrea.ferrara1@inwind.it e robertaubri@hotmail.it

Youth Exchange
"Mediterranean Diet"
04-11 May 2013
San Giorgio a Cremano, Italy

DESCRIPTION
Title: Mediterranean Diet
Dates: 04-11 May 2013 (03 May arrival day -12 May departure day)
Type: Youth in Action Programme - Action 1.1 Youth Exchange

Participants: 4 youngsters (18-25 year old) plus one Leader (18-30 years old) - 20 participants in total

Countries: Turkey, Spain, Italy and Greece

Lodging: You will be hosted in a terrace apartment in Villa Bruno (San Giorgio a Cremano), a very beautiful place for living with bunk beds in shared rooms, a kitchen and hot showers. All facilities are provided except washing machine. Sleeping bags are required.

Food: There will be the catering service for the meals but every group will have the possibility to cook traditional food.

Summary of the Project: The “Mediterranean Diet” project is a youth exchange (action 1.1) involving 20 people coming from 4 countries: Italy, Greece, Spain and Turkey. The exchange will take place in San Giorgio a Cremano (near Naples) from May 04th to May 11th (8 days). The main topic of the exchange will be intercultural learning through food and eating habits, reflecting upon the connection between the way you eat and the way you feel. Participants will identify the differences and the similarities among traditional food cultures of four Mediterranean countries (Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey).

The activities will involve sharing one’s own food cultures with the others, getting to know the similarities and the differences of every country’s culture: through workshops and non-formal education activities the participants will discover more about the other countries, in order to eliminate the barriers and the prejudices among them. The participants will also be involved in inter-generational activities, meeting the elderly people of San Giorgio a Cremano and sharing traditional food cultures of their own grandparents. The food will be the instrument for this exchange of experiences.

We also aim at involving the participants in the discovery of our local products, taking them on tours in the vicinity. Our idea is to rediscover the wholesome traditions, focusing on the use of local products also from an ecological point of view. The choice of these products has a close relation with the carbon's emissions: in fact, the energetic resources consumed are lower than the one used for the products that come from faraway places. We maintain that the use of local products, indeed, might be convenient due to the reduced consumption of energetic resources that it generates. 

Furthermore, participants will create a toolkit/book about the Mediterranean Diet, with recipes written by all participants involved in the project, which will be uploaded on a web platform where the participants will be free to share contents also after the exchange, thus ensuring a follow-up of the experience.