Youth Exchange "Mediterranean Diet"

The “Mediterranean Diet” project is a youth exchange founded by the programme Youth in Action (action 1.1) of the European Commission involving 20 people coming from 4 countries: Italy, Greece, Spain and Turkey. The exchange will take place in San Giorgio a Cremano (NAPOLI) from May 04th to May 11th (8 days). The main topic of the exchange will be intercultural learning through food and eating habits, reflecting upon the connection between the way you eat and the way you feel. Participants will identify the differences and the similarities among traditional food cultures of four Mediterranean countries (Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey).

The activities will involve sharing one’s own food cultures with the others, getting to know the similarities and the differences of every country’s culture: through workshops and non-formal education activities the participants will discover more about the other countries, in order to eliminate the barriers and the prejudices among them. The participants will also be involved in inter-generational activities, meeting the elderly people of San Giorgio a Cremano and sharing traditional food cultures of their own grandparents. The food will be the instrument for this exchange of experiences.

We also aim at involving the participants in the discovery of our local products, taking them on tours in the vicinity. Our idea is to rediscover the wholesome traditions, focusing on the use of local products also  from an ecological point of view. The choice of these products has a close relation with the carbon's emissions: in fact, the energetic resources consumed are lower than the one used for the products that come from faraway places. We maintain that the use of local products, indeed, might be convenient due to the reduced consumption of energetic resources that it generates. 
The project is organized by Youth Action for Peace and the Youth center of San Giogio a Cremano.