PROJECT

Erasmus+ accreditation: the 2022 project

PROJECT DETAILS

PROJECT ID: 2022-1-IT03-KA151-YOU-000068290

GRANT AGREEMENT: 2022-1-IT03-KA151-YOU-000068290

Kora’s first Erasmus+ accredited project: two training courses, three youth exchanges and an evaluation seminar at the farm, with 155 people from 10 countries.

FUNDING: Erasmus+ KA151 - accredited youth mobility

FROM June 2022

TO May 2024

STATUS: Completed

Between June 2022 and May 2024, Associazione Kora ran its first Erasmus+ accredited youth mobility project. Six international activities took place at La Buona Terra, the educational farm in Passignano sul Trasimeno (Umbria) where Kora is based: two training courses, three youth exchanges and an evaluation seminar.

The project was built on four pillars: climate and sustainability, linking the global fight against climate change to practical, everyday ways of living with a lower environmental impact; inclusion, opening non-formal learning to young people who have fewer chances to take part, whether because of where they live, their economic situation or their background; interculturality, lived, not only talking about diversity but experiencing it by living and working with peers from other countries; and quality non-formal education, sharing Kora’s experience and offering young people a path from participant to group leader, able to run activities on their own.

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

OBJECTIVES

In numbers

155 people took part: 133 participants, 16 group leaders and 6 facilitators
6 activities: 2 training courses, 3 youth exchanges and 1 evaluation seminar
12 organisations from 10 countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Romania and Spain
74 participants with fewer opportunities, 48% of everyone involved
56 people travelled green, 36% of the total

What came out of it

Leaders who led. 7 group leaders trained in LEAD UP! went on to lead their national groups in the youth exchanges.
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.
Reaching the local community. Participants ran workshops in the school of Passignano sul Trasimeno, joined a public event with the Mayor of Passignano and visited TAMAT, an association in Perugia.
New ideas. At the Evaluation Seminar, participants developed four new youth-exchange ideas: Craftitional, on keeping traditional arts and crafts alive across generations; H.E.L.P. (hike, explore, learn, protect), on reconnecting young people with nature; Let’s make a circus of life, on circus arts, theatre and dance for self-expression; and L.I.S.T.E.N. (Love, Intuition, Self-awareness, Together, Empathy, Nurturing), a safe space to talk about mental health.
Tools for leaders. The reflection tools used every day by group leaders (the hand, leaves of learning, circle of life, blob tree, abstract mirror and geometrical thinking) were collected in a guide.
Positive feedback. In the six evaluation questionnaires (134 responses), the average overall score per activity ranged from 7.6 to 9.2 out of 10.

Stories

Partners

Associazione Kora (Italy) worked with 11 partner organisations from 9 countries: Asociación Brújula Intercultural and Asociación Cultural Bidaia (Spain), Asociatia Puzzle OptimEast (Romania), Association "Alter Network" (Bulgaria), Dreaming OPEnly (Germany), EcoFairly (France), Európa Ifjúsága Egyesület (Hungary), MTÜ Kora Estonia (Estonia), NGO "Actio Catholica Patria" and Tarptautinis bendradarbiavimo centras (Lithuania), and The Southern Lights (Greece).

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.