The Study Visit “Nature Friends” took place in Lecce from 21/05/2015 to 30/05/2015 and it involved 24 Youth Workers from 12 different countries (2 for each country); 6 countries of the EU Programme countries (Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Latvia, Portugal, Bulgaria) and 6 countries of the Caucasus Area (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia).
This project gave the possibility to 24 Youth Workers to participate in the activities of GreenRope itself and, overall, in the activities of the Network of Local Organizations that collaborates with GreenRope. These Ngos, Youth and Environmental Organizations works in our region (Apulia) and are involved everyday in Eco & Green Project founded by local grant and European Programmes.
The Youth Workers visited these organizations and were strictly in contact with people that implement green activities and that educate children, youth, adults and people with fewer opportunities about healthy lifestyle, open-air activities, healthy nutrition, slow food, fair-trade, green-entrepreneurship, ecology, biodiversity, education, recycling, sustainable development, eco-citizenship.
The main local partner organizations are: Jonian Dolphin Conservation, WWF Taranto, Bottega del Mondo.
The Study Visit’s objectives are:
  • Develop among the Youth Workers new knowledge, competences and skills
  • Increase the awareness about environmental issues among Youth Workers
  • Share and broader understanding of green-good practices, policies and systems in education and inclusion of children, youth, adults and people with fewer opportunities across countries in green projects
  • Increase sense of initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment
  • Better awareness of the European project and the EU values;
 
The final products of the project are:
  • 6 new Projects’ drafts made by the Youth Workers to present in the next Erasmus Plus Calls in the Project Partners countries (in the field of youth)
  • A documentary of the activities, realized to share our messages and to multiply the effects of the project itself

The video-tools of the project! 

These videos have been realized during the project and their goals are to show the activities of the project itself and to show and to teach how to implement a project related to Nature and how to involve young people in it
All the videos have been realized & produced by Andrea Gernone, member of our board.

For the visibility of the project we have involved MTV, using the web-tv channel of the Italian National Agency. MTV has been 1 whole day with us, following one of the study visit, the one in Taranto. Here they are the links of the 2 episodes:

"The Bari Invasion!"
In order to realize an important campaign to spread out our messages about awarennes on environemental issues & youth participation we have realized the "Bari Invasion!" Splitted in groups, the participants & GreenRope Staff went around the main places of city of Bari (city center, university, main squares), speaking with people and inviting them to take a picture in our "project frame", with all the data of our partners, the Erasmus Plus Programme and our National Agency, in order to disseminate and realize an important visibility campaign... the locals could find their own picture on our fb page and could share them, taking a look, in the mean time, to all the other parts and events related to the project and to our activities. The "Bari Invasion" finished in the tipical meeting point of youth of our city, meeting also all the local volunteers of GreenRope. 
All the pictures of the event... here! Take a look!