Foreste Urbane

The Social Promotion Association FORESTE URBANE is engaged in the protection and promotion of the local culture with its history, art, tourism, business, nature and environment. It promotes an idea of community as a participated urban/rural environment, a shared space, a laboratory of ideas where all the individuals could create their own opportunities, implementing any activity that may contribute to the improvement of the quality of their lives. It promotes the local contest, enhancing people and their cultural heritage, in an “glocal” perspective, it means using local resources together with international networks of cooperation. It realizes initiatives promoting sustainability, healty lifestyle, agriculture, social agriculture and social entrepreneurship, with a special attention to the intercultural contests; it implements workshops and educational and training activities aimed to raise awareness, to inform and to train youth and adult to develop awareness and a sense of citizenship through planned actions and projects for local, national and international development strategies. It’s focused on several target groups, especially youth, adult and people with fewer opportunities, in order to: - Support the development of their personality, working on intellectual, artistic and creative skills and competences; - Promote their physical, psychological and spiritual wellness; - Realize their dignity and express their right to study, to work and to develop a concrete social integration. The main educational and training activities of Foreste Urbane are focused on supporting youth, women and local entrepreneurs to develop their own skills and to become individually, socially and economically independent, through: - Outdoors activities, agriculture workshops, pet therapy; - Promotion of rural and local development initiatives; - Organization of conventions, meetings, debates and other informative, professional, cultural and training initiatives on cultural, social, artistic, musical and employment promotion; - Promotion of non-formal education and European and international mobility of youth, youth workers and volunteers through the implementation of youth exchanges, training courses, seminars, study visits and workcamps in Italy and abroad; - Youth and adult training through strategic partnerships abroad; - Promotion of cultural and scientific initiatives aimed to raise awareness on disadvantages faced by youth, elderly, disabled, migrants and people with fewer opportunities; - Promotion of physical and psychological health thanks to initiatives for sport, healty eating and sustainable lifestyle; - Designing and implementation of projects for the promotion of local, national and international environments; - Promotion of national and European voluntary service and the values of volunteering among youth.