About the Meeting

[Please scroll down to find more information from the organizers about the meeting, as published before the event.]

Social reporting

Various reports, notes and impressions from CoP members that attended the meeting can be found in this list. Please look at it as a mosaic giving you a diverse perspective from how the meeting was experienced by different members. This way of reporting by participants is called social reporting and very well fits the nature of a CoP. Please join us!

• Inspiration
  (by Yvon Schuler)
• What's in a word
  (by Dorine Ruter)
• Video and photo for green care
  (by Dorine Ruter)
• Rural policies and social farming
  (by Dorine Ruter)

NB: If you also posted some reflections about this meeting on your website or weblog, please send us a message (see Help > Contact) so we can include a link here. All notes, even the smallest ones, are very welcome!
 

Pictures

Click here to find participants' pictures taken during this meeting. So far, only a few people uploaded their pictures. Please share your pictures with other CoP members! Create a free account at Flickr.com (which you can also use for sharing pictures from other meetings and with other people than the FfH group), and upload your pictures. Make sure you tag them with "ffh_pisa2009" as well as with "farmingforhealth". They will then automatically appear via the link mentioned above. Send us a message (see Help > Contact) if you need help.

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CoP Farming for Health in Tuscany
Pisa 25/27 May 2009

Policies and networking in Social Farming across Europe

Dear CoP Farming for Health Members

We are really glad to organise the CoP in Pisa, Italy. On this website, you’ll find some information in order to better join the meeting:

• Organisation
• Meeting Dates
• Meeting Location
• Programme
• Workshops
• Field Visits
• Terra Futura meeting
• Registration
• Transportation
• Hotels and Accommodation
• Weather conditions
• Tourism
• Overview of all Forms

Organisation

Coordinator of the CoP workshop is ARSIA - Regional Agency for Development and Innovation in Agricuture and Forestry. Website: www.arsia.toscana.it

• Roberto D’Alonzo and Nella Oggiano n.oggiano@arsia.toscana.it

With the participation of Pisa University.

• Francesco Di Iacovo (francovo@vet.unipi.it ).
   

Meeting Dates

Monday 25 to Thursday 27 May. Monday to Wednesday are scheduled for the international CoP meeting. 
  

Meeting Location

The CoP meeting will take place in the Auditorium of the Opera Primaziale, in Arcivescovado Square. The place is just under the Pisa Lining Tower, close to the Duomo Museum, so you shouldn’t miss it. 
 

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Programme

A detailed programme can be downloaded in PDF here.
 

Workshops

During the 25th (Monday) the afternoon will be dedicated to workshops hosted by community members themselves. Here you find more information about the workshops.
 

Field visit

During the 26th (Tuesday) some study visit will be organised. We are planning 4 different place/subjects (still subject to change) as indicated:

• Valdera area: Subject: Institutional framework and process of change by networking (farms and institutions at work)
• Gorgona Island: Subject: Vocational training for prisoners in a public farm
• Forteto Farm: Rebuilding an inclusive community in a Farm
• Pungiglione Farm: Social Cooperative Third sectors and work inclusion for less empowered people
   

Terra Futura

Terra Futura  ("Future Land") will take place in Florence during the days 29, 30 and 31 May. Read more: www.terrafutura.it.

During the 29th (Friday) of the Terra Futura meeting, an Italian meeting on Social Farming will be also organised with the presentation of some social farms and a debate about the start-up of an Italian CoP on care farming.
 

Registration

Here you find more information about Registration, including the forms to:

• Register for participation
• Convene a workshop.
   

Transportation

Here you find more information about Transportation to the Meeting Location.
 

Hotels and Accomodation

Here you find some information we selected about hotels and accomodation.
 

Weather

The weather in Pisa is hot at the moment and should be fine during the CoP meeting, with themperatures around 22-26 degrees.

Of course during the field visits and the evening you need to cover a bit more with a jumper. Forteto and Pungiglione are more in a mountainous area, so colder. People that will go to Gorgona have to move on a ship for about one hour - so it may be a bit windy.
 

Tourism

For more information about tourism in Pisa and region, please see: www.pisaturismo.it.
 

Overview of all forms

Find here an Overview of all forms for this meeting. Information about the forms can be found under Registration.

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