Petrarca - European Academy for Landscape Culture, Germany
PETRARCA is a non-profit organisation based in Witzenhausen at the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences of the University of Kassel.
The NGO deals with the sustainable development of European development of European cultural landscapes. Special attention is paid to social and organic farming and land use. In 2004, PETRARCA was one of the initiators of the first European conference conference on farming for health, held in the Netherlands.
Under the umbrella of Petrarca, the German Association for Social Farming DASoL was founded, whose newsletters reach 7,000 email addresses and which manages the portal www.soziale-landwirtschaft.de. One focus is on research to support, promote and ensure the quality of social farming through social and ecological inclusion.
Address:
Petrarca e.V.
c/o Universität Kassel, FÖL
Nordbahnhofstr. 1a D-37213
Witzenhausen, Germany
European Grants International Academy (EGInA), Italy
The agency, founded in 2012 and accredited by the Umbria Region for vocational training and certification of competences, represents today one of the main stakeholders in the field of local, national, and European initiatives design and implementation, relying on the cooperation of numerous experts in the fields of education, social innovation, cultural heritage and digital transformation.
Address:
Via A. Vici, 8/b
06034 Foligno (Pg)
Italy
EMAC - Empresa Municipal de Ambiente de Cascais, E.M., S.A., Portugal
Cascais Ambiente (or EMAC) is a municipal enterprise founded in 2005 with the mission to ensure all the 214 000 residents live in a healthy and clean environment. It started with the city’s waste management but it has soon evolved to other responsibilities such as the planning and maintenance of green public spaces, the management of the territory’s ecological structure, and the promotion and implementation of sustainable measures, both at the individual and collective levels. Cascais Ambiente has around 800 workers and many volunteers who participate in different projects related to ecological restoration and urban agriculture, some of them funded, both at the national and European levels.
Address:
Complexo Multiserviços da Câmara Municipal de Cascais,
Estrada de Manique, n.º 1830.
Alcoitão, 2645-138 Alcabideche – Portugal
Akdeniz University, Turkey
Akdeniz University was founded in 1982 in Antalya, and incorporated a number of higher education institutions in the West Mediterranean region of Turkey. From its foundation to the present day, Akdeniz University has played a significant role in the development of activities of vital importance in the fields of education, research and development and service to society, as well as putting its signature on a list of outstanding successes in the fields of health, science, social development, education and arts at both the national and international level. The primary mission of Akdeniz University is;
- to provide a high level of education which is closely integrated with the academic world;
- to establish high quality programmes which support student mobility;
- to create scientific research and applications to a global standard with universal relevance;
- to transform our scientific projects into technologically viable products;
- to meet the needs of society for knowledge, technology and social solutions at the most advanced level through ongoing programmes in the fields of education, health and other vital services.
The vision of Akdeniz University is to become a world-class university dedicated to continuous improvement in the quality of its education, research, art and technology, while at the same time encouraging entrepreneurial activity and showing sensitivity to the environment.
Akdeniz University took a role 2 different social farming projects.
The project title is given in below.
- Green Care in Agriculture (COST action 866) 2006-2010
- Inclusive Farming – Transfer Of Concepts, Experiences, Skills And Training Tools For Social Farming and EcoSocial Inclusion (2013- 2016)
Address:
Pınarbaşı Mah. Dumlupınar Bulvarı
07070 KONYAALTI / ANTALYA, Turkey
ITCG Ferruccio Niccolini, Italy
The “Graziani” section of the ITCG “F. Niccolini” of Volterra was established in the school year 1993/94 thanks to a group of eight teachers who, with the authorisation of the prison management, began to volunteer to prepare private students to take the aptitude examinations.
Given the good results of the examinations, it was decided to continue the voluntary work for the year 1994/95 as well. At the same time, however, under the encouragement of both the ‘Niccolini’ presidency and the prison management, a request was submitted to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Education to institutionalise a course for surveyors within the Volterra Prison.
Today, the school is well integrated into the fabric of the city by training students who are currently working in numerous companies in the area; but before that, the school in prison is a special and precious moment for the prisoner’s rehabilitation pathway. As far as the agricultural vocational pathway is concerned, the institute has both a didactic garden located inside the prison and an outdoor didactic garden where native vegetables are grown.
Currently, an aquaponics laboratory is being set up, which will consist of three 1000-litre tanks for the breeding of fish such as the trout perch (Micropterus salmoides), pumping and filtering systems, and three 15-square-metre tanks of cultivable surface area used to house plants grown on floating DWC (Deep Water Culture) rafts. The vegetables that will be cultivated in aquaponics will mainly be indigenous salad cultivars, fine varieties of basil and various types of microgreens.
Address:
ITCG “F. Niccolini”
Via Guarnacci, 6
56048 Volterra (Pisa)
Italy
