We; Messzelátó (HU), Trial&Error(G), Vertigem (PT), PIC(ES) created our working group to utilize and share our knowledge that we gained in different fields of interests. All partners in this strategic learning partnership are deeply interested in our chosen common topic: democracy/active citizenship education and environmental education through urban beekeeping.Our goal in our strategic partnership is to use urban beekeeping as tool of deeper understanding of active citizenship and practicing participatory democracy. Not only would we use urban beekeeping as an environmental educational activity, we also want to create youth program and our local beekeeper learning groups on understanding sharpening a cohesive local community, to build an active network of volunteers, members, supporters, collaborators. In the collaborative, local youth groups in every country will be involved youth with fewer opportunities special attantion for youth with cultural difference, unemployed.This type of community activity re-establishes the connection between young people and healthy food production, contributes to a sense of involvement and inclusion, re-engage people at risk into our community, and increases citizen responsibility by giving them a sense that they do have the power to make changes in their city.The exchange of experience on learning possibilities in this context is of vital importance . As an educational tool, urban beekeeping is accessible to all ages, all cultures, all genders, all income levels, all abilities. For a learner the results are tangible and applicable to everyday life. The participating countries are Germany, Spain, Portugal and Hungary. By arranging a joint staff training and 3 online conferences each partner has an opportunity to share their field of expertise with other partners and a selection of learners, by showing examples, holding workshops, arranging lectures or any combination of activities which feel most appropriate. The outcomes of the project will be 4 partner organisation will be more professional in operating youth/volunteer programs, creating special educational materials and better in international cooperations. Youth participating in this project will become more active citizens. Their entrepreneur skills, communication and leadersihp skills will improve along with their knowledge on environmeltal topics such as beekeeping. As well as the setting up of several local public community events/studies on democracy status of countries and educational materilas next to the urban beehives with the help of the collaborative youth learner groups.
We; Messzelátó (HU), Trial&Error(G), Vertigem (PT), PIC(ES) created our working group to utilize and share our knowledge that we gained in different fields of interests. All partners in this strategic learning partnership are deeply interested in our chosen common topic: democracy/active citizenship education and environmental education through urban beekeeping. Our goal in our strategic partnership was to use urban beekeeping as tool of deeper understanding of active citizenship and practicing participatory democracy. We used urban beekeeping as an environmental educational activity, and we also created youth program and our local beekeeper learning groups. Local groups in Portugal, Hungary, Spain, Germany met regularly and did bee-keeping activity e.g. setting bee hives, making bee hotel, bee wax canvas etc. The members of the group learned practical knowledge, that they can use in their everyday life, learned about environmental problems of cities. This type of community activity re-established the connection between young people and healthy food production, contributes to a sense of involvement and inclusion, re-engage people at risk into our community, and increases citizen responsibility by giving them a sense that they do have the power to make changes in their city. 4 partner organisations also created a special educational material together during the blended mobility. Our Blended mobility lasted 12 days. Started with physical meeting in Barcelona, where our youthgroups met and changed ideas, experience, designed the virtual (on line) mobility. The virtual (on line) mobility we invited bee- and democracy experts (professors) to give lectures via video conferences and we were studied bee-democracy to learn about bee democracy and social democracy. This part was important to achieve the final goal of our project that was named in the title of our project: Let’s learn deep and flavourful democracy from bees. And we believe that the youth participating in this project became more active citizens. Their entrepreneur skills, communication and leadership skills improved. During the 9 days of virtual mobility 4 organization worked together to write an Urban bee-keeping guide based on the expert meetings. This guide we as an Intellectual output, though there was no named in our proposal.