Name of the project: Calculate Sustainable - Start Green Economy!

Where: Artvin, Turkey

From: 18/07/2010 To: 25/07/2010

Number of working days: 6

Working languages: English

Project summary:

The main theme:

The main theme of the Summer Camp will be the holistic perspective of Green Economics and the role of the Youth in implementing the key concepts of Ecological Economics reaching Sustainable Development.

Aims and Objectives:

With this event we want to explore the best methods and encourage youth to take active role in their societies to fight for a new Sustainable basis of Economics which will not tend to endanger environment, tend to violate human rights or create a gender disbalance and which will not support the raising gap between rich and poor social groups.

We want to learn about the role of young people in building Green, Ecological societies and the best methods that can be used to make youth work efficient and effective. We will do this by means of democratic practices and respect of human rights, while celebrating diversity, and promoting intercultural and inter ethnic understanding.

We will encourage multiculturalism and interethnic dialogue by emphasizing how important youth work and activism is in supporting sustainable, democratic, multiethnic and diverse society development. Objectives: Defining Economics – history, conventional and alternative approach. Defining Green and Ecological Economics.

We want to examine the collision of current Economics with Ecology and agree on the best practices to be used by youngsters in order to prevent the destruction of the natural environment and lower the impact of the current consumerist world.

We will study on role of the European youth in current economical concepts and agree on the best means for improving the position of young people.

We will explore the reasons of Gender Inequality caused by the conventional economics and get to the methods which will improve Youth Participation in the field in order to help the fight in achieving a gender balanced world.

We want to debate on the role of current Economics in encouraging the violation of human rights. Furthermore, we want to conclude on the model which could represent the best solution for sustainable economic policies which will have to prevent, and not support, the violation of human rights.

We will examine the role of Economics in allowing global violence – Wars, regional conflicts, conflicts between majority and minority... and agree on the position of Youth in preventing the conflicts.

We will encourage and give the skills to our members so they can be able to form a new Working Group within the Network which will deal the issues of Green Economics and continue the work.

This seminar will help knowledge and information flow so that young people could be better acquainted with the position of these issues in different countries in Europe and also to draw some general conclusions on them. This gathered information, knowledge and connection among participants of the Project should bring closer European youth and encourage them to participate more in dealing with each of these issues further on, more thoroughly.

This seminar will evaluate and find the best ways of improving and supporting cooperation and dialog between youth from Eastern and Western parts of Europe.

Methodology

The seminar is conceptualized as the combination of lectures, workshop, panel debates, educational role-play games and other different program elements, as well as promoting youth participation by means of street action. The lectures will be provided by experts from both Eastern and Western Europe having a strong experience in dealing with active participation of young people and a holistic view concerning environmental, social and economic issues in societies. At the workshops we will focus on personal experiences and interactive learning while for the street action we will put into practice what we have learned.

We received 12 applications and 5 are selected. There were 5 female and 7 male applicants, 2 applicants from Germany, Ukraine and Turkey, and one per country from Slovakia, Serbia, Cyprus, Georgia, Macedonia and Czech Republic. Selection is done based on geographical and gender balance, previous experience of the applicants and relevance of the knowledge and experience of the applicants for this project.

Preparatory team

Call for the Participants

Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe (www.cdnee.org) is hereby announcing a call for participants of the summer camp “Calculate Sustainable – Start Green Economy”. This project will take place from 18^th July to 25^th July 2010 in Turkey with the financial support of the Council of Europe, The European Youth Foundation and the Green Forum, Sweden

This call is open for applicants coming from any of the Council of Europe member states (listed bellow) and Belarus. The participants should be interested in the topics of this event, willing to take active part in the planned activities and open for new experiences and people. The advantage (but not the condition) is to have green organisation background and the experience with the topics of the event. Considering that this is a youth event the participants shall not be younger then 17 and older then 32. The selection of the participants will be completed by the International Prep Team at the meeting in June 2010.

We would like to keep participation open for people of different education levels and with different backgrounds. Important is the diversity of experience and knowledge. The allocation of participants will be based on gender and geographical balance. We will use the application files standard procedure.

The application

DEADLINE for submitting the application (filled in application form attached to the call) to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is 15^th of June 2010 at 24.00 CET.

After you send your application, you will receive a confirmation e-mail within 7 days, stating that your application has been received (if you do not get such e mail you will need to re-send your application)

General Conditions

If accepted as participant to this event, you should arrange your travel in most environmental friendly and economic way.

The organisers will partly reimburse your travel expenses. At the moment we are not able to confirm the exact amount but we are aiming to be able to support up to 70% of your travel costs, upon presentation of all the original receipts. Accommodation, meals, educational materials and refreshments will be provided by organisers for the entire duration of the activity, free-of-charge.

The participation fee for the event will be set at later stage aiming at around

• 25 euro per participant who will be staying in tents, and
• 50 euro for the participants who will be staying in hotel rooms.

See below for the detailed explanation of the situation about accommodation.

Special Conditions about Accommodation

This year the summer camp will take place in a preferential accommodation system, namely offering two options for the participants : Staying in hotel rooms or staying in tents. In the application form, participants will have to choose one of the options stating their preferences for accommodation. Participants who're staying in tents will have unlimited and equal access to all the facilities (such 3 meals per day, showers and toilets, etc...) as the participants who will be staying in hotel rooms. Detailed arrengments will be decided by prep team and announced in the beginning of July, latest.

Application form for the participants

Info sheet for the participants