Hermes Exchanges the Local Producers (HELP) I)Exchange's presentation...... 2 A)History B)Summary C)Key-words D)Pedagogy 1)Skills 2)Behaviour 3)Knowledge E)Complete description...... 3 1)Sporty stay and intercultural life team 2)Sensory activities 3)Debate and reflection about active citizenship, slow food and local economy. F)Planning and main subjects...... 3 1)Multicultural dialogue 2)Environment II)Achievement...... 5 A)Calendar-planning B)Communication of the project C)Partners Hermes Exchanges the Local Producers (HELP) I) Exchange's presentation

A) History This event follow « La montagne les yeux fermés (the mountain the closed eyes) », realized between December 2010 and January 2011. In next September, it will permit the confrontation between foreigners, blind persons and local inhabitants by 15 tandems on the roads of Forcalquier (Alpes de Haute ).

B) Summary Discovery of the local farmers by tandem. Mixity: each person is important, and not only belonging to a group of foreign or blinded persons.

C) Key-words Education through sport, Active citizenship and participation, Local consumption, Community development, visual disable, sensory activities, youth exchanges, Social integration, training, intercultural dialogue, environment

D) Pedagogy

1) Skills • Pedal together by tandem

2) Behaviour • Promote local economy and farmers • Trust in the pilot of the tandem and live in a team • Grow with the meeting of differences (cultural, ...)

3) Knowledge • Life cycle of a food product • Actors of the mountain middle • Local products and meals www.ong-hermes.org rue Pasteur prolongée [email protected] 05000 Gap [email protected] CONTENTS 06 66 85 80 86 ~ 2 ~ Hermes Exchanges the Local Producers (HELP) E) Complete description

1) Sporty stay and intercultural life team Each one is a young person considered as a full-fledged human being and not only belonging to a group of foreign or blind person. The stay is organized to fight against the fear of the Other in the Society. They will pedal by tandem to join together the local producers and taste together the local products.

2) Sensory activities The young participants will discover mountaineers' products as well as the farmer and the shepherd activities (cattle healing, milking, traditional products cooking). Sensory activities will be organized at this time (essential oil, tasting cereals, vegetables, cheeses, meats …).

3) Debate and reflection about active citizenship, slow food and local economy.

F) Planning and main subjects

September Saturday 8th Sunday 9th Monday 10th Tuesday 11th Morning Arriving Tandem Vegetables of Lure- Middle in evaluation Aubenas-les-Alpes & free day in Forcalquier Afternoon Installation and Cereals « Saveur des Tandem Sports from away stay's truques », complete presentation channel from the plants to the bag Evening Welcoming Intercultural night Vegetables' cycle of Fair finance night, games to life know each other W 12th Thursday 13th Friday 14th Saturday 15th Sunday 16th Tandem Sports from Creation of the stay Presentation of the Baggages away creation Cereals Cheese Sports f'rom the South Evaluation Leaving « Ferme de la bertine » Multicultur Debate on active Ending of the creation of Final party al dialogue citizenship the stay

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1) Multicultural dialogue

a) Games to know each other The associations will mix so that the European young people will have the opportunity to meet each other.

b) Intercultural night Regional meals of each associations Place of the stay

c) Interculturel city night in Forcalquier

d) Local identity Free day in Forcalquier to visit the city and its monuments

2) Environment

a) Vegetables' cycle of life : from the field to the plate It's a stay to discover the region. Thereby, we'll teach to the young people about local economy and cooking identity. By a game of pairs of cards about products from here and from other places, they will be able to compare two ways of selling food, to compare the majority and the minority food cultures : • The usual long channel (transport/selling, packaging, intermediary, supermarket, ...) • The short channels (direct selling, composting, …)

b) Local economy and fair finance This night will be a training to learn a new economy. We will talk about local money, as the LETS (Local Exchange Trading System ), ethical placements thanks to a game (Ethica) created by the Belgian Network « Réseau Financement Alternatif » within the European programme Leonardo Transfer of Innovation.

c) Active citizenship

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A) Calendar-planning

January February March April May June July Writing of Contacts with Choose the Communication the project farmers partners at the Translate the YIA programme Festiv'Idées in project application form Gap, France

August September October Logistic Achievement Deadline for for HELP the realisation

B) Communication of the project -The Festiv'Idées : June, the 1st (university) , 2nd and 3rd (parking) - Local radios : • Fréquence Mistral • Radio Alpine Meilleure (RAM) • Radio d'!ci • Alpes 1, la Là radio

C) Partners • Age : 18-25 • Number : 20 + 6 group leaders • 4 countries partners (5 participants by country) or 5 countries with 4 persons each

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