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PROJECT APPROVED! WE ARE LOOKING FOR PARTICIPANTS!!! From Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, France and Romania. Youth Exchange – Key Action 1 Erasmus+ "Are we what we eat? Learning – Discovering - Testing" 01-09 September 2014 Brussels, Belgium 100% food and lodgement covered by the project A forfeit reimbursement for the travel costs. Write to info@intermundia.be “Are we what we eat? Testing – Discovering - Learning” is a project for a youth initiative. The main topic will be intercultural learning and the fight against cultural prejudices through food and eating habits, including a reflection upon the connection between the way you eat and the health. Participants from different counties will identify the differences and the similarities among traditional food cultures of the countries involved. 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 workshop about reusing food, recycling and environmental activities. 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. This is the reason why the organization Slow Food Youth Network will actively collaborate in the project. Furthermore, participants will create a toolkit/book with recipes “healthy but traditional” written by all participants involved in the project, which will be uploaded on a web platform where the participants will be free to share contents also after the exchange, thus ensuring a follow-up of the experience. The project “Are we what we eat? Testing – Discovering - Learning” is a youth exchange involving 30 young people . The exchange will take place in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean from September 1st to September 9th (9 days). The project is funded with the support of the programme Erasmus+ (http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/index_en.htm)of the European Commission and of the Bureau International Jeunesse(http://www.lebij.be/), Belgian National Agency for Brussels and Wallonia of the programme Erasmus + - Jeunesse en Action.