GOOD FOOD GOOD MOOD Erasmus Project

Project Title

GOOD FOOD GOOD MOOD

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 : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; Health and wellbeing; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The main goal of the project is to bring knowledge and efforts to people about the common cultural heritage “Mediterranean Diet & Cuisine” as also about the value and meaning of locality in general (recipes, habits, local products, culture, people as persons and society). Health and longevity, mediterranean way of lining based on an ideal diet that is connected with the traditional cooking and family, society, culture values is something important that can be learned, promoted and supported.
Cooking traditionally helps people to avoid more and more the processed foods and appreciate homecooking meals, pure igredients, cook and eat with company and family. Cooking traditionally also helps the organizations to keep alive the traditions and organise open food festivals that brings people together and contribute to social cohesion.
Cooking traditionally is at the basis of the mediterranean diet and cuisine. Sharing food and feelings with family and friends, using the local products that differ from season to season give a special meaning and can have an important impact not only on health, social cohesion, family life but also at the local economy and tourism.
This project aims to prove how following and supporting the mediterranean diet & cuisine and especially the locality can help people to get improved as personalities but will can use the learning results as efforts to the tourism sector and to those who produce local products.
Culinary tourism is not just a new trend. It shows how much people are attracted by traditions, by the need to have a look back to the routes and learn , save some values, nabits and datas. Mediterranean diet and cuisine is a valuable key for the development of tourism especially at the rural areas of Europe that need support.
Is a great suggestion for younger people to stay at the rural areas and develop a new alternative tourist product. This new tourist product can enrich the tourist product identity in the euromediterranean area and can be developed in a more firendly way for the environment, for the culture, for the local societies and economies. Our project will comtibute to building trust to a euromediterranean tourist product to the people who travel and will contribute to the euromediterranean brand of the mediterranean diet.
Our project will strengthen the idea of the cooperation in Europe and Mediterranean area and the intercultural dialogue.

In the frame of the project another value will be in the epicenter: the intergenerational exchange between “mentors” (older people that will offer their knowledje, their experiences, their recipes and secrets and they will explain how the diet and cuisine are connected with the traditional habits, the religion, the seasons, the way of living) and “trainees” (younger people that will share their passion for new knowledge about tradition, about mediterranean diet & cuisine, about healthy food and longevity, about new way of living and about new style enterpreneurship – eco and culture friendly.
Our project will be based on understunding, on intercultural dialogue and on cooperation by plan and inspiration!
The training activities in local level but also in the different countries will esnure the understunding and learning by doing, lifelong adult learning.
Τhe engagement of all participants and partners (authorities, enterprises etc) in the project will result in a social and cultural dynamic action. The open local and mediterranean food festivals will be more attractive to all and will be upgrated in general.
Our website will be a treasure box as it will be open data to everyone who is interrested to Mediterranean Diet & Cuisine and it will show reality in Mediterranean countries and authentic social action.

Mediterranan food means GOOD FOOD and the cultural value that is connected with it as also health and longevity means GOOD MOOD and that is what our project aims to bring!

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 77205 Eur

Project Coordinator

KOINONIKO OIKO POLITISTIKO DIKTIO KOIPODI & Country: EL

Project Partners

• ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE JUMPIN
• Beyoglu Halk egitim Merkezi
• INGEFIEX – Asociación para la Innovación, Energía, Cultura y Deporte