The EU-funded project MYSEA, which has training in the Blue & Green Economy as its core activity, conducted creative workshops to enable young people and women to broaden their range of knowledge, putting transversal, sectoral, and digital skills alongside the creative ones that can be a great tool for working in sustainable economies. Among other activities, MYSEA youth and women attended video-making and photography workshops: under the guidance of professional technical staff as teachers, the trainees made a number of mini-documentaries on the topics of agri-food and waste management. We highlight here some particularly noteworthy works.

ITALY

ReFoodGees: a 9-min documentary about a social promotion association that recovers unsold fruits and vegetables at the market, which would otherwise be thrown in the trash, and redistributes them to people in need.

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Capturing Sustainability: a photography project whose subject is a family-run organic farm that produces olive oil, driven by ecological and sustainable values, in which trainees had the opportunity to immerse themselves in the reality of a company that focuses on the principles of eco-responsibility.

LEBANON

Waste Warriors: youth waste management challenges in the Nahr Ibrahim area in Lebanon. The video sheds light on the innovative approach taken to tackle plastic pollution in the river.

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Jar Thuraya: a story of women who have chosen to become entrepreneurs in agrifood: starting from the rural areas of Lebanon, they have founded a start-up that produces and markets typical local food products. A way to resist the crisis, but always with an eye on sustainability!

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Deir el Ahmar Guesthouse: talks about a hospitality project for tourists, run by a woman who has given her business a unique twist by becoming a trainer and providing guests with workshops on how to produce mouneh and other traditional dishes.

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The Azolla plant: Azola is a water fern with consistent nutritional properties, which reproduces extremely fast. But it is not a threat to the ecosystem, far from it! In this video, Romeo explains that it can be used as a protein supplement in animal feed, and that it can be a profitable source of livelihood for small farmers.

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The story of Jabal Moussa: discover the amazing hiking trails of Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve with Tania, an environmental guide that also is the Ecotourism manager of the reserve.

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Hot wine made in Lebanon: another female story about the success of a young startupper's idea to import a traditional Swedish recipe.