7 small movies to get “moving” impressions form the transnational meeting in Sweden. Have a look!
Our project gets more and more attention as loacal activites and PR are increasing. Today we can present a radio coverage from France about READ IT. Have fun listening to Marie 😉
The READ IT project got quite some feedback in Sweden. Here is a second press article that was realeased shortly after the secons transnational meeting.
Preparatory meeting with our local partners, in order to discuss the 2nd transnational meeting in Sweden, the schedule sent by Ake and the implementation of local activities. Regina Lecointe, Marie-Raphaëlle Minier (MdEY), Pauline Winocour-Lefèvre (Yvelines’ Departmental Board), Liudmila Ismagilova (GPS&O urban community) and 2 MdEY interns attended the meeting.
First contact with the association “Rencontre Ville-Campagne”
We’ve made contact with a local association called “Rencontre Ville-Campagne” (Town-Country Gathering) which aim is to bring young consumers and farmers together. With special learning material, farmers answer the children’s questions for an hour and a half and explain them their lives, the passion for their profession but also their daily difficulties and challenges.
Awareness raising actions in a 2 rural schools (Guerville), about European and French subsidies to implement citizen’s projects in the rural areas and more generally about the European Union. And the 25th May, as part of the “Joli mois de l’Europe” (European month), the two classes met for a giant quiz in a media library. This specific action has been carried out with one of our local “Read it” partners, GPS&O.
The Maison de l’Europe des Yvelines got funding from the FFME (French Federation of Europe Houses) in June, to set up a conference about the Common Agricultural Policy, “Parlez-vous PAC?” (“Do you speak CAP?”), which will deal with the following topic “Fair income for French farmers”. We will do it with another Read it partner, the agricultural school, and in partnership with another school in a very isolated Norman area. The school from Normandy will go to Saint-Germain in March 2019 to benefit from all the speakers’ experience.
13 awareness raising sessions in 2 primary schools (in Saint-Germain-en-Laye), on the following topics: sustainable development, citizenship and solidarity initiatives in rural areas (compost collect for the AMAP’s (association supporting small farming), new entertainment places research (sheepfolds, fruit picking etc.) Graphic representation, based upon Keith Harring work, of “citizenship” and collaboration between the land and the towns.
A public activity in Sweden for the promotion of our project on the 8th of May.
We ”occupied” the hall of the municipal hall in the community of Ljusdal, up north in the county, to give information of our project and about our Europe House. We met around 75 intrested people during 2 hours. In the photos is Hasse and a representiv, Lena Husen, from ”All o Sweden shall live”. We had meetings and contact with people who will be engaged in the meeting in Sweden. Very productive.
After the first international meeting in France the newly established citizens group in Bad Marienberg enhanced its activites. But instead of just setting up the agenda we realized “citizens interviews” to recheck if we are in line with what local citizens really want and care about. Thus each and everyone of us consulted friends, family, relatives, colleagues and so on to ask specific questions about the needs of local citizens in our rural area.
With this results, that were developed in recent weeks we continue in August with our next local meeting where we will focus more on the content after having collected all the content beforehand.
More in August when we will proceed with our local activities….
Quite some time after we puplished something here but the partnership is pretty active. We are fully involved in local activities which will also be presented here as well as preparing for the next milestone – the meeting in Sweden in September.
But now, just a quick glimpse of Swedish distribution of the strategic partnerhsip – local PR is done very well (click on image or PDF download):
After the approval of the project in Germany and the first meeting of the steering group in Budapest during the EUNET annual conference, in the Netherlands we started our search for an additional partner.
Through some contacts that we (from Learn for Life) consulted we came in contact with an organization called VKD (association of small villages). This is a very active umbrella organization for village councils in the Frisian municipality of Weststellingwerf. All 24 small villages are member of the VKD. They represent the villages where it concerns municipality wide developments. The VKD and the municipality inform each other about new developments. Together they think about ways to maintain and widen the involvement of the villages in municipality wide developments.
One of the board members of VDK is actually working for Doarpswurk and through the Read It project we see an extra opportunity for cooperation between LfL, VDK and Doarpswurk. In the past Learn for Life and Doarpswurk had a common strategy for development of the rural areas called the rural academy. Because of new workers, new targets and much other work, this academy has been dormant for a couple of years. But through the READ IT project new opportunities have risen for this cooperation.
Doarpswurk (www.doarpswurk.frl) is a professional organization in the Dutch province of Fryslân. They support an stimulate initiatives that strengthen the livability in the rural area of the province. Doarpswurk always makes sure the responsibility and ownership remain in the village itself. They offer proactive, innovative and accessible support to the boards of community centers, village boards and other civil initiatives that strengthen togetherness in villages. Target points at the moment are Network of Sustainable Villages, Energyshop, new democracy and health in rural areas.
We had an initial meeting in the beginning of February with the director of Doarpswurk and the board member of the VKD who also works for Doarpswurk. We discussed about the workload, but mostly about the possibilities this project can provide for us all.
Dissemination
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