Inclusion is Fusion!

   ROOTS AND ORIGINS „If you want to make small changes, Change how you do things If you want major changes,   change how you see things! “                                        Don Campbell (holistic management)     Agriculture, as known in these days, is closing to its end. Conventional production, integrated, even eco-organic can’t return the soil in its original state. Because of usage of standard agricultural techniques, soil have lost most of its original purpose and powers: to grow plants, holding water, collecting sun and to feed animals and people. Usage of chemicals and inorganic fertilisers for decades caused dramatic reduction of fertile alive soil stratum. Even production on organic principals didn’t show results. Aldo eco (organic) product...

Jakub from Cieszyn is telling us: The October meeting of organizations within the Inclusion is Fusion project was attended also by Fundacja Laja. I was an EVS volunteer in Laja in 2016 and I´d like to share my point of view about what we do. We are a young organization. It's only five years since we were born and since then we are constantly developing and expanding our activities. The emergence of the organization arose from the need to give expression and face to our common idea that it is possible and necessary to improve the world - at least the part we can influence - through education, play and cooperation. We focus on ecology - because we want future generations to experience the world green and clean; culture - we try to raise the human spirit, because not only food is the living; social responsibility - we show people that each of us is responsible for his decisions and can be a good farmer in his small part of the world if he realizes their consequences and contex...

"Inclusion is Fusion" is the title of a European youth worker exchange that started in 2017. This blog was born during the project meetings and compiles the main outcomes, stories and best practice examples. It invites everyone to join the network, to contribute to the blog and help spreading the word for sustainable approaches in youth work. The project "Inclusion is Fusion" aims at merging sustainability, diversity and employability for young people. We want to link those three aspects to further promote a sustainable lifestyle among youth and support their employability in the green sector. The project “Inclusion is Fusion“ responds to three major concerns not only present in many European countries but in countries all over the world: environment, exclusion of newcomers and youth unemployment. Its approach is to find ways to link sustainability, diversity and entrepreneurship for youth. The project gives space to talk about how we can promote the i...

H 2 O +  is an  Association created in 2010 by a team of active young people, is strongly dedicated to its mission of supporting the creativity and critical thinking of people from various age groups.  Through its projects H 2 O + promotes awareness towards important issues such as environmental sustainability, natural resources, renewable energy, energy use, waste management and sustainable transportation. The activity in which our Association is mainly investing its time and resources is a series of training and teaching sessions in schools of all grades, from elementary schools to high school. We believe that growing up with the concept of sustainability is one of the most efficient ways to become a responsible adult and citizen. To reach our public, we organize various types of interventions such as workshops and meetings in schools; workshops on active learning around Trentino for children, youth and adults; information and awareness-raising open session...

Cooperativa Puntozero is a non-profit entity located in Udine, operating since 2011 as an official entity and since 2008 as a working group. The associates actively participate in the promotion of numerous cultural projects, and aim to spread the idea of participating in social urban life through the means of art. Cooperativa Puntozero assembles professionals from various disciplines  –  photographers, architects, designers, video makers, economists, philosophers and anthropologists – who decided to invest in a common business project. Together they promote the challenge of establishing relations and collaborations between professionals in the cultural and creative eld. Puntozero is involved in various projects in different areas: video production and photography, set-up and furniture of urban and wooden spaces, installations and workshops, development and realisation of cultural projects, festivals and artistic exhibitions. For all projects and types of work, crea...

The Association UEZ is a non-profit non-governmental organization working in civil sector  creating programs for human and social development in the field of economics, togetherness, environmental care, health, education, sports, communication, personal development for kids and youngsters. The special aspect about this NGO is that it follows the principles of the  Economy of communion, a culture of giving constructing ethical goals and values in business. From 2015, the association recognized sustainable living, ecology and social entrepreneurship as topics that need to be imposed to youth and society through non-formal learning activities. Realizing new projects based on these topics, the association has expended its scope of action, target group and stakeholders and gained new members, mostly organic agriculture farmers. Find out more here.

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,...