Tomorrow's citizen !

Co-construction of an awareness-raising tool for students in Benin, Senegal and Belgium: an intercultural and critical approach to responsible, global citizenship.

Objectives

• To raise awareness among Belgian, Beninese and Senegalese students of the issues at stake in the food system, starting from their immediate reality, with a particular focus on the impact of the health crisis on production and supply in their region, in order to move towards a systemic analysis and propose more resilient organisational models in the face of crises.
• To develop the intercultural skills of the participating students by creating a space for exchange and the construction of a joint project.
• To strengthen participants’ project management skills and their ability to develop awareness-raising tools in an intercultural context.

Impact

This project will have an impact on different scales. The students‧e‧s directly involved‧e‧s will become relay actors, on the stakes of food sovereignty and security and interculturality, with their peers as well as within their university both in the reflections they will have led in an international context but also on animation techniques discovered and used during the training seminars.

The teaching tools developed and used can be reused and serve as a basis for future reflection for continuous improvement.

As part of a network, students will change their behaviour by integrating a more sustainable and systemic vision into their behaviour. They will raise awareness of the issues surrounding food sovereignty among those around them as a result of their experience, who in turn will be able to change their behaviour.