The Inter‐university Institute for Local Development (IIDL) of the University of Valencia celebrates this Thursday, 26 June, a national conference on landscaping within the European E-CLIC project, which aims to raise awareness among the citizenship about the importance of landscape in people’s lives, to promote the principles that underpin them: protecting, managing and planning.
The conference will take place in the building of Research Institutes of the University of Valencia at the Tarongers Campus (carrer Serpis 29), from 9:00. Inscription is free after previous registration of the participants, sending the personal data to the e-mail eclic@uv.es
The phase of the contest of this project started at the beginning of the year with a period of promotion and distribution for registrations, which ended last May. Twenty-two participants (individual or group) were enrolled in the contest, of which eleven belong to the category of the general public; eight in the category of university students; and three, to the category of students of secondary schools, thus covering the three categories of the competition. These projects will represent Spain in the international phase of the competition, to be held in Estonia in 2015.
The head of the European project in Spanish and director of IIDL, Joan Noguera, was pleased with the participation data, as well as with the quality of the submitted projects. Therefore, there have come proposals to IIDL from Catalonia, Castile and León, Valencian Country, Canary Islands and the Community of Madrid, among others. Among the submitted proposals, explains researcher of IIDL Héctor Alcázar, the highlighting projects are the ones that reclaim spaces with proposals with socioeconomic purposes, the recovery of urban lots with organic gardens, proposals to restore natural areas affected by fire, digital tools and technology to promote the debate on the recovery of degraded areas or the integration of natural spaces to the daily life of urban areas. There are also projects that stand out for the rehabilitation of coastal landscapes and a proposal to analyse the situation of the Valencia neighbourhood of the Cabañal.
E-CLIC is a competitive project of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union which is being developed simultaneously in Estonia, Greece, Spain, Germany, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. They do so through the management of a partnership consisting of eight members, among which there are centres of knowledge, universities, companies and technological centres, among others. The University of Valencia, Spanish member of the same, had already participated in previous projects with members of this partnership.
Last update: 24 de june de 2014 13:07.
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