Wastepreneurship

Calarasi, Roménia

Intercâmbio Juvenil | 🇪🇺 Erasmus+ 

Wastepreneurship

Calarasi, Roménia

Intercâmbio Juvenil | 🇪🇺 Erasmus+ 

Between September 7 and 17, 42 young people from Portugal, Greece, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania came together to explore how they can combine entrepreneurship, waste management and creativity during a 9-day youth exchange in Calarasi, Romania.

During study visits in Bucharest, the young people discovered more about sustainable furniture and toys made from recycled cardboard by @foldostudio and sustainable houses created by @efden_org!

Another great activity the participants took part in during the youth exchange was a beach clean-up. Working in teams, the young people helped to reduce the waste and garbage that was thrown onto Calarasi beach, helping the local community.

In the final days of the exchange, our participants had the opportunity to complete a demanding process of designing an ecological business idea that included a lot of brainstorming, communication and collaboration.

Finally, to share their experiences with other young people from all over Europe, the participants created the digital challenge “30 days to increase your respect for the environment”!

PT

Num mundo em constante mudança em que tópicos como a sustentabilidade e as alterações climáticas se têm assumido como emergentes e de vital importância, cabe-nos a nós, humanidade, adaptarmo-nos a tais condições.

 

Em Călărași, Roménia, tive a oportunidade de num ambiente multicultural familiarizar-me com conceitos que até então desconhecia e fomentar o meu espírito empreendedor, aprendendo que a gestão de resíduos e a criatividade podem estar de mãos dadas.

 

Foi uma excelente oportunidade de viajar, conhecer, partilhar e ser melhor num mundo que depende das práticas de todos nós.

EN

In an ever-changing world in which topics such as sustainability and climate change are emerging and of vital importance, it is up to us, humanity, to adapt to these conditions.

In Călărași, Romania, I had the chance, in a multicultural environment, to familiarize myself with concepts I hadn’t heard of before and to foster my entrepreneurial spirit, learning that waste management and creativity can go hand in hand.

It was an excellent opportunity to travel, learn, share and be better in a world that depends on the practices of all of us.

José Costa, participante

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