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.
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Materials created during the project, free to use, adapt and share: please credit Associazione Kora and share your adaptations under the same licence.
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- 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.
- Painting with Nature – Activities Toolkit (PDF, 28 pages)
- 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.
Concesso in licenza secondo CC BY-SA 4.0. © Associazione di Promozione Sociale Kora e partner del progetto.
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.
Parte dell'accreditamento Erasmus+ di Kora 2020-1-IT03-KA150-YOU-000021127.
