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BARCELONA 18—22 OCTOBER 2012
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CONTENTS
About Nexes ................................................................................................ 3
Staff membres of EU’GO project + Participants 4
State of the Art 9
Programme 17
Detailed programme 18
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NEXES
Nexes Interculturals is a youth association working social transformation and
active participation through intercultural and local experiences of young peo-
ple. Since 10 years, Nexes has been using European programmes to enhance
active participation of young people, help them to set up projects, train
them, give them resources and opportunities to grow up professionally and
personally. To achieve the goals and mission of Nexes, we promote:
Intercultural experiences and empowerment of young people: European
Voluntary Service, vocational training projects of the Leonardo da Vinci
Programme (hosting and sending), youth exchanges, Grundtvig projects,
leisure and cultural local activities, and many other activities for young
people and for adults.
Training and counselling: information sessions and guidance, workshops,
training courses, counselling for youth mobility.
Cooperation: youth cooperation projects, projects to increase awareness,
participation in international networks.
To carry out this Project we collaborate with several institutions, NGOs and
we participate in several local and international networks.
Nexes has been working with the topic of sustainable development since 3
years as a way to change the society and educate people through youth pro-
jects. Nexes has participated in Otesha Youth Exchange organised by Pistes
Solidaires in 2009 on this topic and then created a local group to keep on
working at local and international level. In 2009, a local project called "Junts
fem mes" proposed to train some youth leaders on these topics to be able to
do workshops in schools and institutions of the city. One of the training was
based on urban gardens work for social transformation. On 2010, Nexes was
also partner of Pistes Solidaires in the project Global Impact where young
people with fewer opportunities has been working at local and international
level to raise awareness on education for sustainable development. The
group created a Theatre Play, organised local events and dissemination
events.
On the other hand, Nexes has always been a link (as "nexes" means "links" in
Catalan) between people and organisations and when it decided to be part of
this project, the idea was also to contact many gardens and organisations
working on that topic.
Nexes Interculturals de Joves per Europa
C/ Josep Anselm Clavé, 6, 1-1 08002 BARCELONA SPAIN
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Staff member in EU’GO project
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: General and theoric since I’m in EU GO. I am very interested in the learning process of gardeners and the social impact on society WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? To make gardens meet, share, exchange, and think about good practices of urban gardens
Ilenia Zuccaro Italy
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): CEMEA del Mezzogiorno ONLUS
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Staff member in EU’GO project
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: Not really in gardening but thanks to EU’GO project I started to analyze form a social-culture point of view urban gardens as a new and original educative tool. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? To see the Spanish realities about urban gardens and go deeper in the sense of having a garden in the city. Discover new practices in order to transfer them to the Italian EU’GO gardens.
Vivianne Cronier France
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Les Jardins de l’Espérance and RJSM ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Staff member in EU’GO project In my garden I’m a staff member, I’m dealing mainly
with environmental education for children, adults, and
disabled persons, I’m also responsible for planning the
work in the vegetable garden.
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: Gardening, training, environment and sustainable development
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? Meet gardeners from spain, to learn more
about how the gardens are existing and why. I would like to share my knowledge of the different kind of gardens that exist in France, and especially of my garden and hope to bring my stone to the construction of a world with more gardens and gardening in it
Marlene Benzler France
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): PISTES
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Staff member in EU’GO project
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: Not much but lots of interests.
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? Identify good practices, discover the reality of ur-ban gardens in Barcelona, exchange with the oth-ers, get ideas for the experimentation
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PARTICIPANTS
Helen Parker UK
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Shared children's and young people's centre garden, Kingsand, Cornwall.
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Pre-school leader and forest school leader also on the committee that organises the children and young people's centre KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: Lots of enthusiasm and interest, but really only a beginner
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? To be inspired! To gain ideas about how to involve different sectors of the public in respecting, developing and managing a shared outdoor space. To gain some creative ideas about how to develop a garden suitable for a range of age groups.
Olivier Brunetto France
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): ARBRE (NGO) / Soli-darity Garden of Super Rimiez (Potager solidaire de Super Rimiez)
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Manager of an environment workshop for young people on probation between 16 to 25 years old. KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: We teach workshops of vegetable garden, bee-keeping, olive oil production, heritage workshop… for 12 trainees.
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? To meet organic gardeners, to find different approach of educational projects, to visit Spanish social and insertion gardens. To strengthen European garden network.
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: Cultivation of vegetables and flowers. Construction of different types of raised beds.
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? Getting to know as many projects as possible. Finding answers to: Which plants grow under specific climatic conditions? How do gardens ensure the water supply? In the last century the boom of Urban Gardening was usually connected with a social crisis (hunger, rebellious population groups). Which influence has the actual economic crisis on Spanish Urban Gardening projects?
Paola Turroni Italy
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Lavangaquadra
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Gardener with a didactic purpose, I run gardening laboratories in a secondary school. I’m one of the fundraiser for the Lavangaquadra organization and I’m responsible of a school garden. KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: Autodidact gardener, I experiment gardening ac-tivities in the school garden. I’m a support teacher for pupils with special needs and gardening is one of the activity that I proposed to the school. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? Exchange of knowledge among ur-ban gardeners to improve my knowledge, input for new experimentation and new cultivation.
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Elise Aracil France, Corsica
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Association CAP VERT. ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Development executive KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: Trained in urban gardens management and imple-mentation of urban garden in Nice. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? To meet different profiles of gardens and garden-ers and share ours experiences.
Chantal Diart
France
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): cosmos kolej
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S):
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: garden drawing, trimming, aromatic plants
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? Meeting and exchanging ideas with other gardeners and improving my knowledge in permaculture.
Sheila Taylor
UK
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): POINT EUROPA UK ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): volunteer, general gardening KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: NVQ IN HORTICULTURE
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? To find out how volunteers work in other countries.
Sezgi Uygur
Italy
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Ortofficina in CSOA ExSNIA.
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Co-founder, responsible of composting & blog & networking
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: Thesis in Ethics of Philosophy of Ecology
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? Finding out about other good practices, networking
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Laurence Malcolm Watkins
UK
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Cornwall.
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Volunteer Gardener in 30 acre Formal Gardens within the Country Park, assisting with all aspects of garden maintenance. KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: Requirements of Plant Health. Soil management. Shrub Pruning/Trimming. Lawn Care. Seasonal task planning. Vegetable types and their soil requirements. Watering and irrigation systems. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? Opportunity to understand the ‘Urban Garden’ issues and approaches of a different culture, climate and country.
Serge Franc
France
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): cosmos kolej
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): gardener
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: do it yourself ; beginner in land art ; plumbing
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? Meeting European gardeners and discover the dif-ferent ways of gardening in urban areas.
Lory Dell'Anna
Germany
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Ton Steine Gärten
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): Responsable for the community bed of green squash
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: seedbombs, raised beds
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? Learning more about gardening (permaculture, composting), getting to know other organized community gardens and gardeners
Christin Zschoge-Meile
Germany
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): InWoLe eV
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S):
Coordinator, Staff member
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: I have theoretical and practical knowledge about gardening and subsistence.
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? Exchange of experiences: The management of gardens within a city with a high density of buildings and high population density. The political aspects of urban gardening in the city (squattering of gardens and the reaction of the government)
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Aline Grosjean France
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S):
Association Accueil et rencontres – Jardin des
Aures (Marseille) ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S): animator – organizer
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING: To introduce people to discover natural and gar-den ecosystem's through adapted (for different ages) ludical, scientifical, artistical, practical, etc activities – to organize events to make people meet in the garden WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA? To discover other urban gardening functioning : to exchange about practices, tools, activities in garden
Heidi Games Germany
ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S):
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION/GARDEN(S):
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS ABOUT URBAN GARDENING:
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE VISIT TO BARCELONA?
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STATE OF THE ART
Local context in Spain, Catalonia
Nexes is situated in Barcelona, Catalo-
nia, Spain. Catalonia is the north-east
region of Spain with autonomic status
and proper language. Second region
for population, Catalonia is one of the
strongest region of Spain
Population and territory
Catalonia has 7,364,078 inhabitants,
according to the population census of
2008, after some years of constant
growth particularly as a result of foreign im-
migration. It represents 15.9% of the total
population of Spain and makes Catalonia the
second region of Spain for population. At
present, a little over 60% of Catalans were
born in Catalonia, 20% were born in other
communities in the State and approximately
15% are of foreign origin. One out of three
Catalans is between 20 and 39 years of age,
the largest population group.
Catalunya has 946 municipalities but very few
rural population as 95% of the population is currently living in 300 municipalities of
more than 2000 inhabitants. The Urban Region of Barcelona includes 5,416,447 (2008)
people and covers an area of 2.268 km² and about 1.7 million people live in a radius of
15 km from Barcelona. That represents 74% of the population of Catalonia and 11.8%
of Spain Population.
With a surface area of 32,107 m², Catalonia has a very diverse and divided orography,
with extensive mountain ranges mirroring the coastline, inland depressions, mountain
peaks reaching 3,000 meters high in the Pyrenees, and just 240 meters to the south is
a delta that collects the sediments from one of the most abundant rivers of the Iberian
peninsula: the Ebre. The orography itself is notably responsible for the climate. While
it can be said that the winters are mild and the summers are hot and dry, the tempera-
tures themselves vary considerably between the coastline and the inland plains and
the Pyrenees.
90% of the population of Catalonia is living in a third part of the territory, called
"franja costera" (coast border) in about 9.235 km². This part of the territory has a high
density of population. If the average of Catalunya is 234.8 inhabitants for square me-
ters, the Barcelonese area (Barcelona, Hospitalet, Santa Coloma and Sant Adrià) has a
density of 15.412 inhabitants for square meters!
Sources and references:
General government of Catalonia www.gencat.cat/catalunya/eng
Statistical Institute of Catalonia www.idescat.cat
Culture and Language
Catalan culture has developed its own unique and universal identity over the
centuries. The innovative flair, creativity, capacity to absorb different influ-
ences, co-existence and tolerance values have shaped a culture that is both
national and cosmopolitan.
Traditionally, art and thought trends seep into Catalonia as a result of the
country's geographic location, open to the Mediterranean and European coun-
tries, and also due to the leading spirit and attraction created by Barcelona.
Catalonia has always been an intersection of cultures and influences.
Breakfast at the Hostel Breakfast at the Hostel Breakfast at the Hostel Breakfast at the Hostel
Morning 9:30 Presentation of urban gardens in the hotel
Work on good practices, tool fair and local imple-
mentation
10h: Visit to garden Can Masdeu (nº18)
Visit of the project and exchange with garden-
ers
9:30 Train to Cardedeu and visit of Cardedeu autosuficient and Phoe-nicurus (nº25) and Lla-vors orientals (nº21)
9:15 Evaluation
Lunch 14:00 Lunch in the city
Paella in Can Masdeu cooked by gardeners
Solar cooking workshop and lunch
Departures
Afternoon 16:00 16h: Visit to “Fàbrica
del sol”
Arrivals
16h Visit to garden CONREU SERENY Badalona (nº23)
19h Visit to garden MAS
GUINARDO (nº17)
Napping Visiting Barcelona Pre-
paring Tool fair
15:00 Visit and presen-tation of EsBiosfera school (nº22) Return to Barcelona 19h: Visit to Garden Xino (nº19)
Evening 20:30 Dinner at the hotel
Dinner at Mas Guinardo centre
20h: Tool Fair party in Nexes with guests and
pica pica
Dinner at restaurant
Night 21:30
Presentation of par-ticipants
Free time Free time
PROGRAMME
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1/ THURSDAY AFTERNOON: Arrivals
As you all arrive to different points and hours, we will meet at 20h in the ho-tel, except for Italians and German people who will arrive later.
During the afternoon, you have several choices:
Fàbrica del Sol http://www.mcrit.com/crbs/
It is a municipal centre on Education on sustainable development. They or-ganise activities, exhibitions and events related with sustainability. We will go there with the participants who already arrived.
Parc del Laberint www.barcelonaturisme.com/Parc-del-Laberint
A very nice park next to the hotel in the upper part of the city. We could go there for a walk between 17h and 19h if it’s not rainy!!
21h-22h: Presentations round at the working room of the hotel. A small activ-ity to present the group and the programme in order to be able to start work-ing on Friday.
2/ FRIDAY MORNING: Working session
We will present our gardens and then work on good practices, on the concept of learning and skills in the gardens. We will also work on the good practices of Eu’Go.
3/ FRIDAY AFTERNOON: Visit to gardens
After lunch, we will visit the garden of Sant Jeroni de la Murtra (GP nº23), which develops several projects of social integration in Badalona
CONREU SERENY
Our association was born in April 2010 in order to recover rural lands for la-bour insertion of migrants and citizenship through the pedagogy of the love for Nature. The gardens are situated around the old monastery of Sant Jeroni de la Murtra (Badalona) in a “quiet space” very near from a big suburban area (Badalona).
Good practice: Sowing the seed: introduction to Ecological agriculture for migrants in a situation of social exclusion. The idea of this course were to pro-vide to the participants basic skills to manage their professional and life pro-jects in the rural area with a concept of self-estimation, love and respect for nature.
Contact: Dolors Clotas
HORT DEL CASAL D’ENTITATS DEL MAS GUINARDO
The Casal d’Entitats Mas Guinardó is a municipality equipment that acts to promote the associative and social life of the district. The aim is to give sup-port to the organisations and stables groups, informal or not, and to the neighbours of the district.
Practice: The organisation has a shared garden run by the neighbourhood: Once a month, they organize an agroecological cineforum where they screen documentaries in the community centre, generating reflexion and debate about agroecological culture.
Contact: Anna Suñé
Place: Casal d'Entitats Mas Guinardó Plaça Salvador Riera 2 08041, Barcelona Metro L4 Guinardó / Hospital de Sant Pau
It’s a big garden but also a project, a house and many more things: http://www.canmasdeu.net/ They have many years of experience, set up many pro-jects and surely will have a lot to exchange. They will make a complete visit of the project (house, energy, gardens, organization, etc.) and we prepare a meal for you.
Practice: social and intergenerational ecology.
The group that squatted the farm of Can Masdeu opened some gardens for their own consumption, in which people of the house as well as anyone who wanted to learn and help could participate every Thursday. Apart from the gardens of “the house” they have a project of community gardens and a pro-ject for a total of 40 individual and shared plots and a community plot opened for all participants of the community gardens.
Both in the gardens of “the house” and in the community gardens ran by the neighbours the management is based on active participation assembly-based and counts with work commissions. Through this participative system of as-semblies, the participants can develop skills of social dialogue, understand-ing, conflict resolution and sharing concepts.
The neighbours will prepare a meal for you.
Contact: Can Masdeu Claudio Cattaneo Laura Ciudad
5/ SATURDAY AFERNOON: Free time and TOOL FAIR at Nexes
On Saturday, we will meet at 19h at Nexes to prepare the last staff for the Tool fair.
There, some local people will see the practices, information about the project and could speak with you about your projects.
Cardedeu is a small city 1 hour away from Barcelona in a peri urban area where different gardens have been set up:
PHOENICURUS AND CARDEDEU AUTOSUFICIENT (11h-13h)
The project was unintentionally initiated by the sowing of a small patch of broad beans in the autumn of 2009, in the corner of a former dairy farm. Since then it has evolved into an abundant garden providing year-round, fresh, local, organic and seasonal produce to a group of 30 families.
Practice: “Growing together” – how to combine small-scale organic food pro-duction and responsible consumption.
The consumer cooperative “cardedeu autosuficient” burst into life in the au-tumn of 2010, with the express desire from the outset to source food as lo-cally and organically as possible, and to seek to support small producers and innovative projects, and to establish strong, direct contacts between the con-sumers and producers.
As founding members of the group – we ourselves are, after all, consumers too – we had the great fortune to be able to offer our organic produce for the weekly vegetable boxes. Only a couple of months previously we had decided to expand our garden with a view to commercialising, and making a small, but sustainable, living.
Contact: Hort Phoenicurus Cardedeu http://phoenicurus.wordpress.com/ Mark I Gisela
Llavors orientals is a Seed bank with the aim of recovering of cultural patri-mony and of seeds genetic resources. The gardeners of the region grow seeds and observe all the cycle, put the seeds in the bank and exchange them with other gardeners. Simultaneously, documentation about the characteris-tics of the seeds is elaborated.
Contact: http://productesdelvalles.wordpress.com Josep Maria Pi
Es Biosfera is a organic horticulture school with gardens. The school has its own garden of 1500 square metres where beginners’ courses in organic horti-culture are carried out. The course participants (this year 9 people or familiar unit) are able to cultivate a 50m2 plot for one year (February 2012 to Febru-ary 2013). We also have another group of 10 people doing the same course, who already have a garden at home, and therefore share one big plot for the practical sessions.
Contact: http://www.esbiosfera.cat/ Gemma and Jordi
7/ SUNDAY AFTERNOON: Hort del Xino
We will meet at 18h30 at the end of the Ramblas, next to Colon Statue. From there, we will go to visit a communitarian garden.
Hort del Xino:
Initiated in 2009. There was a squat in its place. The people living there were evicted and the building was pulled down. The people from the neighbour-hood decided to keep occupying the land and they created the garden as a symbol for political fight. It is situated in the heart of the Raval, the multicul-tural neighbourhood of the centre of Barcelona.
It has an horizontal organization. There are several “commandos” (commissions): Diffusion/Land/Kids/Bioconstruction
Practice: Communitarian Bread oven with documentary
The practice that I am currently documenting is the construction of a bread oven in the community Garden “Hort del Xino” in the Ravel neighborhood. This project involves volunteers from the neighborhood who have come to-gether to help Renan to construct a wood oven to be able to bake bread for common meals and gatherings. We have edited a video that shows the com-munitarian process, the active participation of the neighborhood and the learning process from a technical point of view but also from the active par-ticipation and communitarian learning.
Contact: Hort del Xino http://hortdelxino.wordpress.com/ Klaus Jack, videographer
Dinner in the city!
8/ MONDAY (9h-11h): Evaluation and individual meetings
We will do the evaluation of the stay in the meeting room. After the evalua-tion, people would be able to work on their own implementation and stay with the “expert” from the other country or speak with topic-related persons.