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PROJECT

FOODBACK

PROJECT DETAILS

PROJECT ID: 101052107-FB
GRANT AGREEMENT: 101052107 - FB
A Capacity Building project in the field of youth, led by Kora with partners across the Western Balkans, Morocco and Jordan, on food and sustainability.
FUNDING: Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the field of Youth
FROM April 2022
TO March 2025
STATUS: Completed

ABOUT THE PROJECT

FoodBack brought together young people from different countries and backgrounds to develop skills and ideas around sustainable food production and transformation, and to turn those ideas into workable business plans.

OBJECTIVES

FoodBack set out to build entrepreneurial skills around food production and transformation among young people from several countries, working through local workshops, an international youth seminar and job shadowing periods.

General objectives

  1. Build young people's knowledge and skills in social and green entrepreneurship.
  2. Strengthen partner organisations and their youth workers in youth participation, non-formal education, sustainable practice and business development.
  3. Involve young people and improve their chances of finding work.
  4. Develop a sense of initiative and open routes towards the labour market.
  5. Improve the quality of learning through non-formal education in the partner countries.
  6. Promote non-formal education in the partner countries as a way to engage young people and make them active members of society.
  7. Raise awareness of climate change and help organisations set a practical example on sustainability.
  8. Reach young people in rural areas and give them tools to become agents of change.
  9. Spread awareness of good, clean and fair food.

Work packages: Project Management; Capacity Building of Youth Workers; Capacity Building of Youth; Dissemination and Visibility.

ACTIVITIES

DELIVERABLES

Youth workers trained
Eighteen youth workers took part in the capacity building strand of the project.Open →
Study visits
Nine study visits hosted for youth workers across the partnership.Open →
Local workshops
Ninety young people joined local workshops held in the partner countries.Open →
International youth seminar
Forty-five young participants attended the international seminar.Open →
Job shadowing placements
Eighteen young people carried out a job shadowing period with a partner organisation.Open →
Business plans
Eighteen business plans drafted and reviewed by the participants.Open →
Toolkit and training module
A toolkit of around 150 pages and an accompanying training module, published openly on the project website.Open →
Online dissemination events
A series of online events on start-ups and the food industry, reaching roughly five hundred people.Open →
Website and social channels
Project website, Facebook page and Instagram profile launched and kept active for the duration.Open →

Partners

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