Are you passionate about culture, food, and community? Would you like to explore how cuisine can build bridges between people from different countries and backgrounds? Join our Erasmus+ youth exchange “The Taste of Diversity – Intercultural Cuisine as a Tool for Dialogue” in the mountains of southern Poland!
📅 Date and Location
Date: 09 – 16 September, 2025
Location: Międzybrodzie Bialskie, Poland – Beskid Mały Mountains
The exchange will bring together youth from Poland, Bulgaria, Greece and Italy for a week of intercultural learning through food, storytelling, local traditions, and green practices. Through workshops, culinary labs, and field visits, participants will explore how food can foster inclusion, sustainability, and dialogue.
What to Expect?
- Cooking and sharing traditional dishes
- Workshops on sustainability, food justice, and zero waste practices
- Field trip to explore the culinary heritage of Silesia
- Cultural evenings and storytelling around food
- Hackathon to create an international recipe e-book
🎯 Learning Objectives (SMART)
- Intercultural competence: By the end of the exchange, each participant will be able to describe at least 3 food traditions from other partner countries and explain their cultural meaning, based on national presentations, cooking sessions and cultural evenings.
- Dialogue & teamwork: During the project, each participant will take part in at least 2 activities based on storytelling and mixed-nationality teamwork, strengthening communication, empathy and cooperation in an international group.
- Zero-waste skills: During culinary workshops, each participant will apply at least 3 practical zero-waste actions (e.g., full-use ingredients, portion planning, reducing leftovers/packaging), and reflect on the results in a short group debrief.
- Sustainability & food justice awareness: By the end of the exchange, participants will identify at least 3 links between food choices and their social/environmental impact (e.g., food waste, local production, access to food), discussed during the workshops and group reflection.
- Planning & responsibility in practice: Each international team will create a simple cooking plan (roles + tasks + shopping list) and carry it out during the joint cooking activities.
- Digital skills & project results: By the end of the project, each team will deliver at least 1 complete recipe contribution (recipe + cultural story/context + sustainability tip) and prepare 1 short multimedia piece (e.g., a short video) to support the international recipe e-book.
- Learning reflection (Youthpass): During the final evaluation, each participant will name at least 3 skills/competences they developed during the exchange as a basis for their Youthpass learning outcomes.
🗓️ Schedule
Download the full programme here: 📄 Schedule – Taste of Diversity
📚 Workshop Materials
- Food without waste (presentation)
- Zero Waste Mission
- Training: Personality Colors
- Personality Colors (quiz)
Costs
Thanks to Erasmus+ funding, participation in the exchange is completely free. It includes:
- Accommodation and full board
- Workshops, materials, and excursions
- Travel cost reimbursement (according to Erasmus+ distance rules)
📥 How to Apply?
Fill in the application form and tell us why you’d like to join this culinary journey:
Apply Now📘 Infopack
All details about the project, venue, travel, and preparation can be found in the 📖 infopack.
Questions?
Contact us at: erasmus@zieloneslaskie.pl
Join us for a delicious week of intercultural discovery and sustainable learning in Poland!
