PROJECT

Erasmus+ accreditation: the 2023 project

PROJECT DETAILS

PROJECT ID: 2023-1-IT03-KA151-YOU-000141831

GRANT AGREEMENT: 2023-1-IT03-KA151-YOU-000141831

Kora’s 2023–2025 Erasmus+ accredited project: nine activities at the farm, from leadership and permaculture to food, art and climate, with 226 people.

FUNDING: Erasmus+ KA151 - accredited youth mobility

FROM June 2023

TO May 2025

STATUS: Completed

Between June 2023 and May 2025, Associazione Kora ran its Erasmus+ accredited youth mobility project 2023–2025. Nine international activities took place at La Buona Terra, the educational farm in Passignano sul Trasimeno (Umbria) where Kora is based: four youth exchanges and five activities for youth workers. The year followed a clear path: building the partnership, training the group leaders, running four youth exchanges on the environment, evaluating together, and going deeper into permaculture and sustainable design.

What we wanted to achieve

Environmental awareness: helping young people understand climate change, from European policies to the impact of their own choices, and giving them practical ways to reduce it.
Inclusion: involving young people who live in isolated or marginal situations in activities that connect their local reality with Europe.
Multiculturalism: a society where everyone can keep their own cultural identity, lived by working and living together with peers from other countries.
Quality non-formal education: strong group leaders and youth workers who can make a youth exchange a real peer-to-peer learning experience.

Downloads

Materials created during the project, free to use, adapt and share: please credit Associazione Kora and share your adaptations under the same licence.

- Painting with Nature – Activities Toolkit (PDF, 28 pages)
  Ten activities from the Painting with Nature youth exchange, with step-by-step instructions: a collective “earth altering” mandala, natural pigments, a collective mosaic, barefoot paths, table landscape bouquets, mandala making, using the senses to connect with reality, shapes of matter and natural music instruments.
- UpcycleIt toolkit (PDF, 45 pages)
  The workshops of the UpcycleIt youth exchange: recycled paper, natural pigments, objects from scrap wood, origami, collages and more, ready to repeat with a group.

Toolkit for implementing Erasmus+ activities (PDF, 21 pages)
Written at the Evaluation Seminar from the experience of group leaders and partner organisations: the role of group leaders and a leaders’ agreement, tips for leaders and facilitators, partnership agreements and selection guidelines, dissemination, and evaluation.

Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. © Associazione di Promozione Sociale Kora and project partners.

Permaculture designs for La Buona Terra

During the Permaculture for Youthworkers course, six teams of youth workers designed the future of La Buona Terra as a place for learning: water, soil, food gardens, buildings and educational spaces. The teams presented their designs at the end of the course.

See also our other Erasmus+ accredited projects: 2022 project · 2024 project · 2025 project.

Part of Kora’s Erasmus+ accreditation 2020-1-IT03-KA150-YOU-000021127.

OBJECTIVES

In numbers

226 people took part: 201 participants, 19 group leaders and 6 trainers
9 activities: 4 youth exchanges and 5 activities for youth workers
36 organisations: Kora and 35 partners from 15 countries
97 participants with fewer opportunities, 43% of everyone involved
125 people travelled green, 55% of everyone involved

What came out of it

Leaders who lead. Youth workers trained in Take the Lead went on to lead their national groups in the youth exchanges of 2024.
Sustainability as daily practice. All activities were hosted at La Buona Terra, where sustainability was part of everyday life on the farm, not only a topic for discussion.
Closing together. Every youth exchange ended with a final gala where participants presented to each other what they had created and learned.
Positive feedback. In seven evaluation questionnaires (168 responses), the average overall score per activity ranged from 7.9 to 9.3 out of 10. In the two permaculture training courses, 35 of 36 participants who answered the EU survey would recommend the experience.
Materials anyone can use: toolkits, a cookbook and guidelines, free to download.

Partners

Associazione Kora (Italy) worked with 35 partner organisations: Hrvatski Crveni križ – Gradsko društvo Crvenog križa Zagreb (Croatia); TUSCA7 (Denmark); MTÜ Elukas, MTÜ Kora Estonia and Seiklejate Vennaskond (Estonia); AJEFA, EcoFairly and The Northern Lights – L’aurore boréale (France); Dreaming OPEnly e.V., Eine Welt e.V., GrunerPuls, Kulturlabor Trial&Error e.V., Magistrat der Stadt Eltville – Jugendarbeit and Mostar Friedensprojekt e.V. (Germany); Hellas for Us and Sporos Regenerative Institute (Greece); Európa Ifjúsága Egyesület (Hungary); Erasmus Student Network Italia, Pachamama APS and Primi Piani APS (Italy); Jauniešu biedrība “Dagne” (Latvia); Bloom Foundation (Netherlands); Świat Rozpędu (Poland); Associação Pó de Ser Assim, Associação Quinta das Relvas and HortaFCUL (Portugal); Asociația de Tineret ONESTIN, Asociația Puzzle OptimEast and GreenHope (Romania); BEST Niš (Serbia); Arterra Bizimodu, Asociación Brújula Intercultural, Asociación Cultural Bidaia, Asociación Sociocultural BreGal and Colectivx Raíces Negras (Spain).

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Agenzia Italiana per la Gioventù. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.