New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Initiative category

Identify the award category for which this initiative is being submitted
Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

Email user
delia_mela@yahoo.com

Basic information
Initiative title
Nature4Life

Full initiative Title
Sustainable waves in deprived communities

Please provide a short, catchy description of your initiative to be used in communication towards the public.
What is life?
What is nature?
Simple questions but still not truly understood!
What about Nature4Life?
In deprived areas, such as rural or rromani communities, youngsters from the Oradea city under the guidance of members of Pro Time-R Association in partnership with representatives of some companies from industrial parks and salubrity companies ,spread the concept of Nature4Life by active workshops and common campaigns of nature cleaning from the above mentined communities.

What was the geographical scope of your intiative?
Regional

Where was your intiative implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
Romania

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
Bihor county

Does your initiative address mainly urban or rural issues?
It addresses urban-rural linkages

Does your initiative refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your initiative benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your initiative won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Does your initiative has a minimum level of maturity? The minimum level of maturity is exemplified by stakeholder/ initiative promoter commitment to implement the initiative in practice and a clear methodology /approach.
Yes

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As a representative of an organisation
Please provide the contact details for the project promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the project)
- Name of the organisation(s): Pro Time-R Educational Association
  Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation
  First name of representative: Mela
  Last name of representative: Delia
  Gender: Female
  Nationality: Romania
  Function: President
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: O.Goga,45
  Town: Sanmartin
  Postal code: 417495
  Country: Romania
  Direct Tel: +40 724 287 273
  E-mail: delia_mela@yahoo.com
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
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In case my initiative is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my initiative in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
Social Media

Description of the initiative
Please provide a summary of your initiative
Nature4Life - a regional project designed by city youngsters for deprived communities in deprived areas having as aim the spread of good and responsible habits regarding sustainability, through non formal education , with outdoor activities underlining the importance of a clean nature environment for leading a healthy lifestyle
Youth volunteeers were selected to design themselves activities for their fellows in the targeted deprived areas that would involved the hole deprived comunity through non formal educational methods, helped by volunteers of industrial companies and salubrity companies as suppliers for offering to these communities selective garbege cans and tools for maintaining it.
It was designed targeting pier to pier sharing , from youngster to youngster and than waving towards the targeted community by outdoor common games, collecting garbage activities, eating together the sense of responsability for a clean nature and sustainable environment

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with 5 key words.
Nature

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Life

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Nature4Life

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Sustainability

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Youth for youth

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of sustainability and how these have been/will be met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
Sharing the concept of Nature4Life from yongsters to yongsters of deprived areas( rural and rromani communities)were our most essential objectives that lead to offer to the city youngsters the opportunity to get involved in organizing and implementing campaigns about sustainabity, the importance of nature in our life and how to collect garbage in a responsable way; then collecting wastes in the nature with the communities and volunteers of the companies from the industrial park, All ending with common sport activities in nature where youngsters from the city could acknowledge the greatness of pure nature.
Giving youngsters the power to be change makers in implementing sustainable habits for deprived communities first through active wirkshops with youngsters from these communities,then collecting waste and garbage with volunteers from companies,sharing good practices of team work and leadership , all lead to a fruitfull win win context from all sides:
City youngsters being involved directly; deprived communities being guided in a sustainable world with responsible mentality , volunteers from companies helping youngsters to implement the concept and also joining the activities of collecting and all these ending with hicking, climbing picknicing in clean nature together as a reward from one side and as a thank from the other side

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
Design-
Context: Nature 4Life , month of sustainable awareness project
Method of non formal education about sustainability :youth to youth non formal design teaching, learning by doing,practical guidance
Open air activities about the importance of clean nature in our life
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Positive emotions: joy, becoming human oriented having as goal the importance of a clean nature and its benefits, tydind frienships,socializing, energy, empathy,sharing like careing,feeling the change maker sense of responsability,love for nature
Cultural benefits
1.Visiting deprived areas and discovering new great natural places full of history, natural miracles like caves, canyons, rivers undiscovered so far by city inhabitans that must be protected by unresponsible bad throwing garbage habits
2.Tasting the flavour of traditional healthy food at each rural picnick offered by the youngsters/ people of the visited deprived areas as a thank for the given sustainable imput to the volunteers and younsters from the city
3.Traditions and cultural sharings of the visited deprived areas, having the inclusion factor involved for these communities
4.Acknowledging the cultural heritage of the rural areas
5. Sharing good cultural practices of protecting the nature
All these done in 2 years, each month of May involving 30 areas and 1500 people trained

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The areas were chosen by the youngsters according to a deep research : according to the law rate of collecting in s sustsinable way, rromani communities, isolated communities,natural heritage areas deprived of garbbage control and surveillance.
In all the mentioned areas the targeted communities were involved directly by being contacted through their municipalities , school representatives with sustainable education salubrity agents ( that provided garbage cans for the cathegories involved)
All these deprived communities( isolated , rromani and migrant families) from deprived areas were involved directly in the process of change making mentalty about the importance of sustsinability and clean nature .Caring is sharing too all cathegoties of people : sharing responsabile sustainable mentality through active outdoor games, offering tools to clean the nature and collect in a sustainable way , offering great collective experiences while teaching a non formal method of being responsible with nature involving all from youngster to youngster and volunteer employees of different companies lead to a great experience from all involved sides

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the initiative and civil society have been/will be involved in the initiative and what has been/will be the impact of this involvement on the initiative
Starting with educating the youngsters of the targeted communities, involving municipality and schools from the area bringing mentality input through games, collecting garbage from their community, sharing together outdoor lunches, doing outdoor activites such as via ferrata, zumba , sport games all these lead to social matter and positive impact in the community touching, by the wave of change brought by the youngsters, all the citizens of the community a long term benefit for sustsinable life style.
Other schools from the neighbour areas asked for the same involbment from our part due to the results seen .

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the initiative.
The call of this initiative was of the Regional council of Bihor county for the Ngo’ s in the area
We involved the local municipalities and their persons in charge with the sustsinable issue in the area, youngsters from schools in the city, schools and youngsters from the deprived areas, volunteers from industrial companies and salubrity companies

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your initiative. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
It was a design of integrated education:Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Sport, Ecology,Psychology, non formal education, Project management and volunteering
All these disciplines were interconnected and melted one into another having the aim of changing mentality and practice good habits about having a sustainable lifestile in connection with a clean nature
1.Youngsters from the city interacted with the deprived municipalities( way of thinking, way of addressing to authorities and involv them in the oricess)
2.Youngsters from the city interacted with teachers in deprived schools
3.Youngsters from cities interacted with youngsters from the deprived areas and shared , from youth to youth the concepts about asustaibable life through active lifestyle
4. Youngsters from the city interecred with companies asking their help in funding these activities and also sending employees as volunteers in the cleaning campaigns and activities
5.Youth assigning youth to become change makers in their communities regarding sustainability , responsible collecting habits of garbage and waste
6.Youth asking the salubrity agents to come and offer cans and tools in these areas for tge community in order to implement the educational input about sustainability
The added value was that youngsters were organizers and ambassadors of sustainability being directly involved in this process

Please highlight the innovative character of the initiative, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the initiative
Youth creating a hub and network of ambassodors ( of both sides- youth from the city - that hearing about the project joined more and more the activities- and youth from deprived areas becoming change makers in their communities)of sustainability for deprived communities through youth of these communities in deprived areas for deprived cathegories

Please describe which elements of your initiative could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
The frame of this project was the context created by youth for youth having as stepping stones the stakeholders from industrial companies and salubrity companies as support, is totally eligible to be transferred and replicated having immediate response and being able to be transferred in any community

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your initiative.
Approach of integrated education design and non formal education concepts

Please explain what kind of global challenges the initiative addresses by providing local solutions
Global challenges-sustainable lifestyle, responsible collecting habits of garbage and waste, ecology, protecting the nature, doing sport/ having an active life
Local solutions that we addresses-providing cans and tools in order to implement the inputed concept of sustainability, collecting with responsability , protecting nature
Offering educational input about the mentioned issues
Offering best practices regarding implementing the mebtioned global challenges
Forming youth to be changemakers
Implementing in the deprived communities
Creating Eco Labs that were using the games and activities done during the project

Please detail the scope of progress in the implementation of the initiative. This can include already demonstrated results/outputs related to the chosen Prizes category, and the already achieved benefits from the initiative for direct and indirect beneficiaries. This can also include a development plan of the initiative, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application, and including envisaged results and benefits from the initiative
The scope of progressis that we have been doing it for the last two years in the month of May under the Cleaning Month and we intend to folow the same patters and transferring it to other communities through youngsters helped by companies authorities municipalities

Please provide documents that demonstrate the maturity level of the initiative and commitment to implement the initiative in practice (e.g.: evaluation report, final or mid-term initiative report, certification, publications, building permit, grant agreement, letter of support, partnership agreement, etc.)
Web link
Web link
If relevant, please describe how your initiative contributes to developing new competences, especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability.
Project management in the field of sustainability and ecology for youth/ adults and authorities as a management issue
Biocompetences through integrated education design in the frame of Sustainability
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