Description
Quantic Association advances the project with the objectives: increasing community and civic involvement, promoting active citizenship through increased awareness of the impact of consumption patterns, promoting the principles of participative democracy among youth, strengthening the solidarity with vulnerable groups. Our project responds to 3 interconnected needs: for community and civic engagement among youth, for a responsible attitude towards resource consumption, for social solidarity and cooperation with vulnerable groups. Expected results: involvement of students and pupils in 3 training sessions and 5 interactive workshops, creation of the Centre for Responsible Consumption, a public campaign followed by a petition, a Small Manual for the Responsible Consumer, 2 public events. The project involves 10 volunteers, 45 students, 1000 campaign recipients, 1000 people signing the petition, 5 schools, 150 pupils and their families, 10 teachers, 5 key policy actors in a public consultation, 500 readers of the Manual, 600 participants in the two events, 500 readers of the project’s web page. 350 of the beneficiaries come from vulnerable groups.
Summary of project results
Quantic Association implemented the project “Come Together. Youth Involvement for Responsible Consumption” and achieved the objectives: increasing young people’s community and civic involvement, promoting active citizenship through increased awareness of the impact of consumption patterns, promoting the principles of participative democracy among youth, strengthening the solidarity with vulnerable groups. It had the following impact and results: organizing 3 training sessions on the topics of participative democracy, the interconnected problems of the consumerist society, environment and social justice, creating an action network around the Centre for Responsible Consumption, developing a public campaign followed by creating and signing a petition, organizing 5 series of interactive workshops for school pupils, collectively writing the "Small Manual for the Responsible Consumer", organizing 2 public events. The project involved 10 volunteers, 45 students, more than 5000 campaign recipients, 1000 people signing the petition, 5 schools and high schools, 174 pupils and their families, 10 teachers and 5 key policy actors, 600 participants in the two events, 350 recipients of the Small Manual. 374 of the beneficiaries come from vulnerable groups. The main benefit of the project was that it involved young people in thinking about, discussing, presenting, testing solutions for the problems of the consumerist society. It promoted active citizenship through increased awareness of the impact of individual and collective consumption patterns. The network developed around the Centre for Responsible Consume (including platforma De-clic, CARE cafe, Fundatia Parada, Samusocial, Creionetica, Creative Recicling, Reper21, the partner schools and faculties, Anthropoesis, Somaro social store) became involved in fighting food waste and contributing to the new legislation and ministerial working groups tackling food waste.
Summary of bilateral results