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The PRO.GRE.S.S. (Proactive Green Communities and Storytellers for Natural Capital
Safeguarding) project represents an initiative of a transnational network of communities of people living in rural areas of four Mediterranean countries (Italy, France,Spain, Greece). The Partnership proposes a democratic participation pilot model, which among others, stimulates debates and reflections among its citizens about climate and green issues and proposes solutions to decision makers.
In a nutshell the general objective of the project is to increase the participation of local communities, specifically in rural areas in European Union topics concerning active citizenship on environment and climate change. The main tangible result is to define with citizens some concrete proposals ready to be reached by policy makers at all levels. The project, which will run until the end of 2024, involves collaboration and exchange of knowledge and best practices among these countries that will work in concert to engage and activate local communities in community processes that will lead local people to think about environmental issues such as landscape, biodiversity, agriculture, natural resources, immigration, and local migration (all under the big semantic umbrella of climate change) and to take action to implement concrete actions that can have an impact of climate change mitigation. To do this, various kinds of proposals will be made aimed at informing, educating, activating, and intriguing local people and communities and involving different sectors of the
population, children, the elderly, young people, women, and men who have chosen to stay or move to live there. The proposed activities are of various kinds : conferences, workshops, training, seminars, debates, webinars, exhibitions, film creenings/making, campaigns, surveys, research, questionnaires, community maps, flashmobs, etc.
project keywords: participation, community involvement, active citizenship, landscape, agriculture, immigration and emigration, biodiversity, climate change, traditions, oral history, natural, social, cultural capital, and women’s participation.