Foodcast
An Erasmus training course
Plovdiv 2019 is a key partner of the Foodcast Erasmus + training course led by the Italian partner Cooperativa Sociale Imagineria. The project involves youth workers from, Armenia, Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine, and it is part of Immaginaria's strategy of experimenting with new media, which aims to enhance community development and engagement.
The project's concept is the use of visual and digital media, combined with storytelling techniques, as a framework to explore different facets of the theme of food applied to youth work: as an engine for intercultural awareness and community animation, as a catalyst for critical thinking and sustainability, and as an arena for personal well-being and social inclusion.
The training course will last from Sunday, 27th October to Saturday, 2nd November 2024 in San Giorgio del Sannio, small town in Benevento province, Calabria.
The project's outcome will be the creation of educational video podcasts that the participants and their organisations will be able to use in follow-up events with their target youth groups and in other community contexts.
THE PROGRAMME
Through team building and group-bonding activities, creative storytelling and multimedia workshops, food-themed experiences, and meetings with local community groups, the programme is designed to transfer an innovative set of skills, tools, and knowledge targeting specifically the Personal and Social, Citizenship, and Cultural Awareness, and Expression, Digital and Entrepreneurship competences of the Revised EU Framework.
THE TRAINERS
Mariami Gatenashvili
Mariami Gatenashvili studied Journalism and Mass Media Communication at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. She has actively participated in various Erasmus+ projects, gaining valuable international experience. As a volunteer coordinator for the Media Lab project of the Greek NGO United Societies of Balkans, Mariami deepened her understanding of both the technical aspects and the creative processes involved in content creation. She has a passion for learning new languages and exploring the world through travel, connecting with people from diverse backgrounds.
Maria Scînteianu
Maria Scînteianu is Head of International Projects for the Romanian NGO Education Studio. After graduating in 2018 in the Studio’s educational programmes Odyssey (artistic expression) and ConVersations (spoken-word poetry), she continued her path as a facilitator in the organisation. Since 2018 Maria has taken part in nearly 15 international youth projects, as a participant, group leader, facilitator, and trainer. She enjoys and finds value in facilitating self-discovery processes in which people are encouraged to connect to their inner worlds and express what they find there in various forms.
Roberta Zollo
A well-known cultural activist in the Sannio community, Roberta Zollo has been active for 10 years in the food and beverage sector, boasting a HACCP certification. After taking part in 2013 in her first international youth project, since 2017 she has constantly cooperated to the Erasmus + projects hosted by Immaginaria and other Italian organisations, both as executive chef and as a facilitator of cooking workshops focused on personal wellbeing and sustainable practices. Her inner chaos triggers an endless quest for community-seeking and reconnecting with the bounty that only nature can offer.
Foodcast is project by Cooperativa Sociale Imagineria, Italy, InMotion Armenia Youth NGO, Armenia, Ateities Lyderiu Akademija, Lithuania, Fundacja Siedmiomilowe Buty, Poland, Institute for Vinnytsia Region Public Initiatives, Ukraine Omladinski savez udruženja OPENS, Serbia,
Municipal Foundation Plovdiv 2019, Bulgaria, Asociatia Education Studio, Romania
