Our German partner STARKMACHER: Stimulating youth through experiential, ecological and entrepreneurial learning!
Since 2010, Starkmacher (est. 2006) started to invest more into projects in the fields of sustainability and environmental education. This direction has been promoted because of the sector related skills of two employees and the desire to make a change in society as far as these issues are concerned. The first project implemented was a Grundtvig Learning Partnership: Eco Navigation , a project with European partners on the trail of sustainability and sustainable lifestyles. Other activities comprise workshops in adult education on themes like sustainability or also more specific topics such as agriculture, permaculture and urban farming. In the last 2 years, the issue was combined with the question on how to enhance employability of disadvantaged youth and ecological themes were linked with employment projects. Most of the projects are international in order to boost intercultural and global learning at the same time. The most current projects in the field of youth employbility, sus