We would like all of you partners to be involved in the organization of the exchange in all its parts. That's why we really need your contribution.
Title: We have a proposal for the name of the project:
PLAN-T YOUR FUTURE!
Dates: We were thinking about the activity dates. We would like to make it happen in late spring (so that you all can enjoy the beatiful italian weather better), preferably in mid-April (approximately 11-20 April 2008). The APV would then be in February.
Could you tell us what you think about it and/or if you have any problem with these dates?
Ideas: We've some ideas on the specific themes and activities of the project that we would like to share with you and you can give us your feedback on them.
1. We are planning to stay both in the countryside and in the city. This is made because we think that the rural and urban way of life are different and we would like to explore the different way of reacting to environment in these two. Also, speaking about nature, it can be nice to appreciate it for real and not in the middle of Florence!
2. General objects:
- analyze the situation of climate in the world and in particular in the EU through a comparison of our countries to raise awareness on this matters as the new threatens of our generation future;
- discuss about our ways of life (intercultural dialogue, tolerance);
- reflect on our behaviour, especially relating to the exploitation and waste of energy and elaborate new common strategies to find original ways of preventing this in our everyday life;
- discuss the role of the EU and of our governments on international agreements in environmental matters (es. Kyoto);
- analyze the way in which the media present the subject and reflect on alternative ways of communicating to our social networks these themes.
3. Specific objects and activities:
- vision of the Al Gore documentary film on environment "An Inconvenient Truth" or "Darwin’s nightmare" by Hubert Sauper and role-game on climate situation;
- intercultural evenings (focus on ways of life);
- production of a decalogue (10 simple rules) of good practices of consumption (to decrease waste of energy and to re-use, re-cycle our resourses) - transnational groups discuss on these and arrive at a conclusion all together. This document can be also released to our social networks;
- City-hunt in Florence to look for italian way of life in relation of sustainable development (es. see how much re-cycling facilities there are, pollution levels, alternative public transport, waste of energy in families and businesses);
- activity on how media picture environmental issues;
- volunteering to clean public areas with Legambiente or Greenpeace;
- discussion and debate with someone that is active in this field (responsible for environment-focused NGOs);
- activity on international treaties4.
We were also thinking of setting a time schedule of several themes to discuss (for example one per month) all together and thus arrive at the exchange with more ideas and a common platform to start from for our activities.
