THE PROJECT

The project „Young Europeans - Critical Consumers“ will deal with consumer habits of young people. Based on their experiences in everyday life the adolescents should become aware of the influences which shape them.By comparing similarities and differences with their European partners they should learn to understand each other better and to understand the influence of consumer habits and commercialised culture on their every day life, their opinions and consciousness.The students should also become more conscious of the impact of their consumer habits on environment and economy. In this context they should inform themselves about conditions of work and production as well as trade relationships between European countries - especially those of the project-partners - and world trade relationships.In order to find their individual and European identity by looking at their consumer habits they should also inform each other about alternatives of consumption (ecological production, products of fair trade …) and national and European laws to protect consumers.