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Project reference: 06-DEU03-S2G01-00019-1
DEUTSCHLAND
Cross cooking & learning
The project aims to rediscover and preserve traditions in cooking across Europe, whilst enhancing the possibilities of
learning and cross-generational and cultural cohesion. Today’s society sees people eager to learn about cooking and
healthy eating, about sustainable living and are actively promoting the collection of traditional local recipies and
encouraging sustainable living. Yet the associated knowledge and required skills tend to be de-valued and lost.
Traditional life, especially in rural communities, includes food production, preparation and cooking as well as activities
and festivities that are linked to the seasons, products and aspects of social life. These activities ensure the community’s
continuation as a living culture and help in the formation of identity and can enhance the authenticity of experiencing
community, locality and tradition. Traditional cooking is geared to what grows locally, to local breeds and seeds, to
local skills and resources. It is a key element in ensuring integrated, sustainable development at local, regional and
global levels. Younger people tend to have lost these skills and the ability to sustainably utilise traditional resources,
disabling their potential in the traditional world. They also lack the advanced skills required to create a different life for
themselves in the globalized world. Elderly people and rural women have tended to become isolated in our fast
moving, ready-made world. It has seemed that there is no interest in the skills and memory they possess and they do not
think in terms of exact methods and measurements that are easily transferred or recorded in written form. Such isolation
can cause related social, health and economic problems.
Duration: 2 years Funding year: 1 st
Area(s) covered
Project Objectives
Target Group(s)
COMPOSITION OF THE PARTNERSHIP
Coordinating institution
Name of the organisation: Machm-it.org e.V.
Name of the contact person: Christine Graf
Address: Hauptstraße 3a, D –06386 Elsnigk
E-mail: cgraf@machm-it.org
Tel: +49 (0) 5332 521332
Fax:+49 (0) 1212 513423937
Website: www.machm-it.org
Partners
Gregus mate Mezögazdasagi Szakközepiskola, HU
Cooperative Cramars Scarl, IT
University Wales, UK
Finlands svenska Marthaförbund r.f., FI
Active citizenship
Basic skills
Consumer education
Environment
Health
Learning about European countries/the European Union,
Information technology
Intercultural issues
Sustainable development
Experimentation with new pedagogical approach(es)
Methods for providing accreditation of competencies
Persons living in rural or disadvantaged areas
Local community groups
Young adults at risk of social marginalisation
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