Activity 1
What do you think are the differences and similarities between a group and a community? Search the internet and present both common approaches and your perspective on the matter. Attempt outlining the local community you serve in holistic approach, applying criteria on entities, social groups, values, culture and emotions alike.
Activity 2
Imagine you are preparing for a dialogue with a representative of a commercial company that aims to green its product offer. Write a check list with main information needed.
Activity 3
Identify 3 green practices in the supermarket in your hometown and imagine a method to verify how real and how effective they are. Write a 200 words report.
Activity 4
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Using internet sources, identify and read 3 CSR Policies. What are their main traits? Do they target Generation Z explicitly or implicitly? Write a 200 words essay. Activity 5 Using internet sources, identify the main practices of internalization of the environmental costs. What is your opinion about their usefulness in a small enterprise active at local level? Do your consider Generation Z as a legitimate target group in dissemination of these practices? Write a 200 words essay. Activity 6 Identify the costs with environment of a local company at your choice. Use a similar table to approximate the company financial status. Write a 200 words essay. Activity 7 – Simulation Game: Drive the capital investments in Blue Stars Village towards sustainable development Story Blue Stars Village is well known for its agriculture and forest based economy. Every family in the village runs a farm and nearly 50% out of them also owns forest land. In the past 2 decades, roughly 75% of the Youth went to high Schools and Universities in the Frog City 60 km away, and very few returned after graduation. Still, a group of around 50 persons belonging to Generation Z dwelt in the Village, 10 even graduated universities of technical and agronomic profiles. The Village has a couple of general stores, 2 garages, and 2 small food processing facilities. One old wood and furniture workshop is going to be modernized. There is only a communal road linking the village to the Frog City. Following rapid development of the City, a group of investors plans to open a Hypermarket, a large logging facility, and a car battery facility and to build a Motorway to link Frog City to Blue Star Village, in a public private partnership. This undertaking will cut most of the forest, which is not legally protected, for the Hypermarket, and parking lots and will create a competition to the local small business. Also, most of the labor force will commute from the city, while for some the investors plans to build towers in Blue Stars Village. Social tension The people of Blue Stars Village are divided in 2 groups: one group welcomes the investments, in the name of development and increased local revenue and high-level jobs, the other group being sad of their traditional way of living fading along with the natural assets of the forest where they grew up. Foreseen action A group of Youth of GenZ agreed to carry out an advocacy campaign to benefit from the investment, while keeping the natural and social assets of Blue Stars Village in place. Your mission is to provide consultancy to this group. How to play Divide in 5 groups: local authority, Investors, citizen representatives, local business, GenZ Advocacy group. On large white papers write you work, following the guidance of each task. The exercise can take 1 hour to 3 hours, depending on the accepted level of complexity and time slots for each task. The game needs one Consultant, namely the Youth Worker or a person from the group to play this role, under the Youth Worker guidance. It can be also played online. Task 1 – Each group – define your goals, objectives, values and emotions and share them to the other groups Task 2 – Each group – organize the participation to the advocacy campaign: define first line of objectives, namely what you would like to achieve and second line, what you can ultimately accept- 2 items for each position Task 3 – Negotiate: each group presents its lines, and the other groups check what they can accept and what they cannot- debate. Task 4 – Presentation of the final result – local sustainable development plan, by each group and then the Consultant shall sum up the groups positions in a common paper. List agreements and disagreements. Activity 8 – Simulation: In your community Organize a local advocacy campaign on a theme derived from the European Green Deal Look around internet sources, conversation with your friends and relatives and choose a subject which is relevant for your community, by screening the New Deal domains: energy, jobs, poverty, circular economy and others. Draw the advocacy plan, following the steps below: 1. Review the needs and the obstacles. Decide on the level of legal intervention and on the provisions to be modified or added. Write a report on this Advocacy Plan. |