Operation Blue Erasmus Project

Project Title

Operation Blue

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

There is an urgent need to save our oceans/marine animals as plastic is destroying wildlife & our global ecosystem. Consortium came together because;- Plastic waste is destroying our environments, polluting air, water, destroying our lands and seas;- There will be more plastic in the ocean than fish;- There is a significant health risk caused by plastic usage, and also fish/seafood contains plastic ends up in food chain;- Many marine animals and sea birds consume pieces of plastic as they confuse with food, and suffer a painful death;-Plastic also destroying our economies and resources;Failure to act will have catastrophic global effects. Consortium will share education of methodologies for recycling plastic waste employed in partner UE countries and implement increase the capacity partner in Myanmar as well as all partner countries. With organized activities, NGOs, youth workers, youth will increase their capacities for active civic involvement on the matter concerning their communities especially regarding environmental protection by reducing plastic waste production.These activities will empower and encourage young people and their communities to be actively involved in recycling, reusing, upcycling for reduction of plastic waste and to decrease the waste ends up in our landfill & the ocean in their countries. Trans-continental cooperation and network set-up will help reach wider audiences and it will increase the impact and lifetime of the project. AIMs-to build/increase the capacity of NGOs, Institution and stakeholders to take action regarding reducing plastic waste in the partner countries by encouraging local communities to recycle and re-use.-to increase awareness of the critical environmental issues caused by plastic & microplastics (as they end up in our seas and oceans and effectively ending up in the our food chain.With well designed implementation, dissemination, follow up and sustainability action plans capacity of partners will increase, youth workers will have new competences to empower youth to be more involved reducing plastic waste ends up in our oceans/seas and landfill.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149134,08 Eur

Project Coordinator

YOUTH INNOVATION LTD & Country: UK

Project Partners

• ASOCIACION CULTURAL Y DEPORTIVA LAHOYA
• WORLDVIEW IMPACT FOUNDATION
• ASOCIACION NEGRA DE DEFENSA Y PROMOCION DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS
• ARTIS GENCLIK KULTUR SANAT EGITIM DERNEGI