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Disconnect to reconnect

2019-3-IT03-KA105-0177852019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: IT|FR|LV|SK|RO|ES · Grant: €19,572.5
Health and wellbeingEnvironment and climate changeCultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Objectives

The project wants to directly involve 36 young people from six different countries in a multicultural experience where they will reflect and learn more about technological abuse risks/misuse, good technological practices, and a healthy natural lifestyle. Mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and stress find their origin both in the wrong use of new technologies and in modern urban western societies’ lifestyle, that moves away to a more “traditional” lifestyle, in the sense of being connected with nature and being part of it. That is where the project wants to act: create a safe environment where people with different backgrounds, cultures, origins, and traditions (some of the participants will have suffered mental health problems episodes) can share experiences, learn and appreciate new and healthier ways of living and of using technologies. Indirectly, the project wants to reach a wider audience in several European countries, thanks to the network of organizations involved, the local youngsters reached by dissemination event and the online dissemination of the outcomes of the youth exchange. The objectives that the project wants to achieve are: 1. To make a temporary technological disconnection to move away from the pernicious uses of technology and be able to have a wider overview of the opportunities and threats that it represents 2. To redefine the relationship that participants have with technologies as virtual users, to generate a healthier way of using these new tools 3. To develop, after a process of discussion, a decalogue of good practices when it comes to technological uses 4. To allow participants from an urban context to reconnect with the surrounding environment, with nature, and with themselves 5. To present a vital alternative more harmonious with the planet and nature, that can provide tools to face the problems that the society in which we are immersed has, while still maintaining good mental health and an emotional balance 6. To enhance knowledge about different artistic and body expression, manual works, and mental health preservation techniques (meditation, musical therapy…) 7. To enhance knowledge about nature and the environment 8. To develop cooperation and teamwork skills 9. To promote self-awareness and soft-skills learning

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