Erasmus+ Youth Exchange

Dates: 17 - 24 October 2024

Location: Kocaeli, Turkey

The waste problem caused by the excessive increase of the population and the industry trying to meet the needs in practical and quickly exhausted ways is the problem of every country and every individual. However, these needs must be met through sustainable ways.
Apart from the importance of the recycling habit, the objective to realize this project is to see what we can do with waste such as plastic, glass, textile products before sending waste to recycling individually. To reduce waste generation personally and protect both nature and household economy. Upcycling is the first option we come across in this sense.

Thus, this project's activities are focused on upcycling. In the first stage, awareness and discussion of the seriousness of environmental problems will be guided with participants. We will talk about the benefits we can provide to nature individually by learning the types of transformation. Practical applications will be shared with participants that can then apply in their daily lives. Additionally, artists and participants who turn waste into works of art will be brought together.

About the organisers

Group Green Harmony is a "youth movement" created for the protection of nature. It consists of young people,
most of whom are university students in Kocaeli. They met each other during a seminar about industrial waste at Kocaeli University. In these meetings, they realized that, as young people, they could carry out new and international studies on protecting Kocaeli and its environment and reducing waste.
Their biggest goal right now is to raise awareness about industrial and domestic waste and to accelerate and develop recycling-related activities in our city. We determined our motto as "Green World, A Better Future" and we continue to work with determination.

Funding

This course is co-funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ framework.
We are deeply grateful for this and we thank the Greek National agency for their great support and their work.

About the venue

This project will be held in Kocaeli, Türkiye's largest industrial city. The people of
Kocaeli have been exposed to large amounts of waste as a result of living in an industrial city for many years and their
sensitivity to waste has decreased in this sense. As we want the impact of our project to be stronger in the regional sense, we will convey our upcycling project, which we think will be beneficial to make it a habit to adopt the sustainable zero waste idea in our homes, with local broadcasters.

For who this is

6 participants (1 group leader and 5 participants) from each country.
-The age range of our participants will be 16-25 years, and 25+ for the leaders.
-Participants with limited opportunities and who have not benefited from Erasmus+ opportunities before will
be given priority. At the same time, enthusiastic participants to work on environmental problems will be
included in our project.

Contact groupgreenharmony@gmail.com for more info and applications.

Important Info for Participants

Info Pack

How to apply

Contact groupgreenharmony@gmail.com to apply

Partnering countries

Green Harmony - Türkiye
The Southern Lights Non-Profit Organisation - Greece
Bioville - Latvia
Amici d'Europa - Italy
Asociatia Preocupati De Viitor - Romania
Eko Power - Poland