We wanted to make the communities as aware as possible about the Fair Trade principles of (general objectives): - Respecting and caring for people and the environment, putting people's needs before profit; - Creating means and opportunities for producers to improve their living and working conditions; - Developing mutually beneficial relationships between sellers and buyers; - Paying buyers a price that ensures producers are fairly compensated for their work and an acceptable income for the trade organization; - Increase awareness of the situation of women and men as producers and traders; - Promotion of equal opportunities for women; Specific objectives: - to improve employability, to promote social inclusion, tolerance, respect for diversity, and non-discrimination. - to tackle youth unemployment - to raise awareness of youth in partner countries about the idea of Fair Trade - to promote the idea of entrepreneurial spirit - to generate an innovative way of learning with the application of ICTs methodologies and virtual collaboration - to use online tools throughout the project period in order to share results, offer online training, and develop the partners ICT competencies - to create a set of learning materials as OER
Nowadays, the world is rushing forward without paying attention to aspects related to the future of societies and the environment. In a way, an international movement of various institutions called Fair Trade responds to this problem. We carried out this project in order to: 1. Encourage young people to set up their own enterprises that will meet the needs of today's world. 2. Increase awareness of the society about the aspects related to sustainable development, ethical approach to business, conscious, responsible, and sustainable consumption, and the need for changes that the world needs nowadays. 3. Solve the problem of unemployment among young people. 4. Increase of satisfaction of young people from the activities. 5. Provide young people with knowledge and experience, which they can't get on the labor market by themselves. 6. Communicate to local communities about fair trade, in which one person does not live at the expense of another, and that consumers pay specific prices that ensure producers are fairly compensated for their labor and an acceptable income for the trade organization; Above all, it was important to raise public awareness that people are more important than business.