Projects & Experience

What the association plans and what experience its team brings. We keep the two clearly apart.

The association's plans

All three applications have been submitted. No decision has been made on any of them yet.

From Patterns to Growth (Aus Prägung erwachsen)

Submitted 23 September 2026, decision pending

The project trains youth workers to safely support young people affected by the long-term consequences of war, displacement or family burdens. Body awareness, systemic reflection, nutrition, movement and Chi Kung are adapted as non-formal methods for youth work. The project is explicitly not a therapy programme. Twelve young people review the materials in a Youth Advisory Group.

Programme: Erasmus+, Small-scale partnerships in youth (KA210-YOU)
Role: Applicant and coordinator
Partner: Origó Műhely Nonprofit Kft, Hungary
Period: January to December 2027
Seminars: "Patterns I": Bad Wimpfen monastery, 24–28 May 2027
"Growth II": Three Treasures Valley, Hungary, 13–17 September 2027
Results: Toolbox of 20 methods, methodological guideline, four-module online course, in German, Hungarian and English
Requested: €60,000

Nourish. Unfold. Create. (Nähren. Entfalten. Gestalten.)

Submitted, decision pending

A ten-day international training for youth workers. Cooking together, coaching and the Yin-Yang principle as an orientation free of dogma help participants develop healthy routines, self-care and new methods for their own youth work. Half of the places are reserved for people with fewer opportunities.

Programme: Erasmus+, Mobility of youth workers (KA153-YOU)
Role: Applicant and host
Date and venue: 7–16 May 2027, Maltese monastery Bad Wimpfen
Participants: 28 youth workers from eight countries
Partners: İzmir Eğitim Kooperatifi (TR), Shen Dao Egyesület (HU), Space-time Works AB (SE), Udruga Zvizdan (HR), Bonsai Break Through The Box (GR), La Città del Sole (IT), Citizens' Action For Europe (GR), Asociación Juvenil Horizonte Rioja (ES)
Result: Digital handbook "The Cookbook for Success"
Requested: €40,330

The Nature of Poetry

Submitted 29 September 2026, decision pending

A ten-day training for youth workers on the Fishermen's Trail on Portugal's Atlantic coast. Walking, nature and free writing become methods for youth work.

Programme: Erasmus+, Mobility of youth workers (KA153-YOU)
Role: Partner; the applicant is Várzeapoética (Portugal)
Date and venue: 19–28 September 2027, Odeceixe to Carrapateira, Portugal

Experience of the team

The following activities took place before the association was founded or independently of it. They are the personal experience of our members, not projects of the association.

Axel Bergdolt's path

1984
Civilian service in Neckargemünd
Supporting children and young people with disabilities in a rehabilitation centre.
1991–1993
Cuisine et Santé, Saint-Gaudens
Training in whole-food cooking, then head of kitchen and cooking teacher at an education centre for about 150 guests; simultaneous interpreter on lecture tours.
1993–2006
Cuisine et Vacances, Moliets-et-Maa
Founded and ran a year-round seminar and retreat centre for young people and adults on the French Atlantic coast, with an open teaching kitchen, talks, and seminars in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
2006–2013
Life and work in Portugal
Moved to Portugal. Counselling on nutrition and healthy living; individual support for people with health limitations, including preparing specially adapted meals for limited periods. Organised seminars on whole-food cooking and Yin-Yang-based nutrition, and also took part in them.
2007–2013
Casas das Alfambras, Aljezur
Planning an eco and education centre in Portugal, the long-term goal.
from 2013
Open kitchen with young people
For many years an open kitchen where young people cooked along two to three days a week. They learned to tell foods apart by origin, season and way of preparation, and to put together balanced meals from them. Also conversations on balanced eating and a small restaurant.
since 2023
Erasmus+ courses
Cook, trainer and participant in international courses, mainly with Origó Műhely.
2025
Seminars with Christiane Huber
Two four-day seminars in Portugal on the after-effects of the Second World War in families.

Large group of people in the courtyard of a house with a wooden balcony — Guests and team in the courtyard of Cuisine et Vacances, Moliets, September 2004.

Erasmus+ courses Axel Bergdolt has contributed to

Course	Period	Place	Organiser	Role
Your Heart Beats 2022-1-HU01-KA210-ADU-000083500	19.–27.10.2023	Vila Franca do Campo, Azores (PT)	Origó Műhely	Cook
Walking on Inner Pathways 2023-2-HU01-KA210-ADU-000173827	September 2024	La Verna–Assisi (IT)	Origó Műhely / Libero Pensatore	Participant
The Next Beat 2024-1-HU01-KA153-YOU-000239022	21.–30.10.2024	Vila Franca do Campo, Azores (PT)	Origó Műhely	Cook
Three Treasures II	2025	Three Treasures Valley (HU)	Origó Műhely	Participant
Midnight in Paris & Sky above Berlin	August 2025	Paris (FR) and Berlin (DE)	Origó Műhely	Cook and trainer
Pilgrimage to Sustainability	01.–14.09.2025	Way of St Francis, Tuscany–Umbria (IT)	Libero Pensatore	Participant
Ritmo Vivo 2025-1-HU01-KA151-YOU-000297895	21.–30.10.2025	Vila Franca do Campo, Azores (PT)	Origó Műhely	Cook
The Next Beat II Training course for youth workers, led by Audicia Lynne Morley	May 2026	Three Treasures Valley (HU)	Origó Műhely	Participant
Women Empowerment	September 2026	Budapest (HU)	Origó Műhely	Cook and trainer
Rural Activators	September 2026	Lago Trasimeno (IT)	Associazione Kora	Participant
Transform your life (Youth Exchange) 31 participants from Hungary, Romania, Greece, Italy and Spain	25.09.–03.10.2026	Three Treasures Valley (HU)	Origó Műhely	Trainer
Footsteps: introduction to the Tamalpa Life/Art Process® Facilitation: Audicia Lynne Morley	24.–30.10.2026	Convento de São Francisco, Vila Franca do Campo, Azores (PT)	Origó Műhely	Cook (planned)