Município de Odemira

The Municipality of Odemira characterized by immense landscape diversity, extending between the plains, the mountains and the sea, a total of 1720.25 km2, of which the Mira river and the dam of Santa Clara, give a special color. In area, this is the largest municipality throughout the country, despite having just over 26,000 inhabitants. Odemira is the country’s largest municipality, with an economy based on primary sector, including agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and forestry. At the level of the tertiary sector, there is the retail trade and services. Manufacturing is virtually non-existent, but Odemira is a county of agricultural production including irrigation. “Odemira Acredita em Ti” is a project in the field of youth that aims to affirm the youth and their role in the municipality of Odemira, promoting territorial competitiveness for the young and their mobilization for civic participation active. A cross-sectional design to various areas (participation, citizenship and bond; economy and innovation, housing, culture and leisure, education and environment, employment and initiative, eco-tourism, sustainable and adventure, energy efficiency, sport adventure ...) that is developing. Resulting from several projects in various areas expressed, it is intended that the volunteers, can not only help create new dynamics of the use and enjoyment by the community, develop related experiments aimed at improvement of implemented projects, promotion of projects with the various public, add value and knowledge to technicians who will interact, absorb knowledge that can carry into our reality. Presentation of new solutions and practical measures of valuation of projects. The municipality of Odemira wants to work with the greatest possible number of organizations, with and without experience in the Youth in Action / Erasmus +, so as to spread opportunities throughout the country, promoting the participation of rural young people with fewer opportunities and to support the initiative own these organizations and local young people within the Youth thematic.