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Food for Thought: Gendered and Classed Consumption

2020-3-DE04-KA105-0206822020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: DE|IT|AM|RS|CY|UA|EL|AL|PT|BG · Grant: €50,827
Health and wellbeingGender equality / equal opportunitiesEU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Objectives

Food for Thought is a project designed by IJGD (Germany) in colaboration with MAGNET (Serbia) and its activities were hosted in both countries. Participants who took part in the first activity automatically qualified to attend the second activity as well, if they wished to do so. The aim of this project was to promote well-being and active citizenship and make the participants challenge stereotypes and norms about gender and class so that they are empowered to live their lives in a fuller and more free way, have greater respect for other ways of life, and make more informed consumer choices. By linking the topics that are not often linked and thought about together, we wanted to expend the scope of participants’ critical thining and raise awareness how our birht caracteristics shape the society we live in and affect us in both, positive and negative way depending on whether we were born as male or female. The starting idea of this project was that our daily consumer choices affect not only our own lives and well-being, as well as the people and the world around us. In many countries the market for ethically and sustainably produced food products has grown, and the same issues have gained greater visibility for example in the clothing industry. Not all people, however, are equally involved in these developments. Women, people with higher levels of education and people living in urban areas are more likely to be vegetarian, for instance. Our gender and class has an impact on our consumer choices, affecting both our personal health and ecological footprint – both important concerns in a world with growing problems such as obesity and climate changes. Therefore, we wanted to provide participants with a set of competences that would allow them to make more aware choices when it comes to consumption, increase their critical approach to their environment and equip them with the set of skills needed to promote the core values of this project.

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