GenerACTOR è cofinanziato dalla Commissione Europea (Contratto n. CSO-LA/2021/171273-3/13) nell’ambito del Fondo europeo European Development Fund.
Il progetto mira a trasferire nella città di Barranquilla (Colombia) il modello di Roma nella gestione di spazi verdi pubblici utilizzati come orti comunitari, per il quale, durante l’URBACT City Festival nel 2017 a Tallinn, Risorse per Roma ha ricevuto il riconoscimento di “Roma, good practice city” dall’Unione europea.
Entro il 2024, con il supporto di Risorse per Roma, saranno realizzate 4 azioni pilota di orti urbani comunitari nelle aree periurbane di Barranquilla, quali strumento di buon governo, cittadinanza attiva e partecipazione.
Gli obiettivi principali del progetto:
Il progetto persegue gli impegni del Green Deal e degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile “Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs”, promuovendo l’integrazione delle popolazioni più vulnerabili in particolare degli immigrati.
GenerACTOR è coordinato da ANCI Lazio con i seguenti partner:
Durata: Gennaio 2022 - Dicembre 2024
Budget totale: 2.931.080,00 €
Partner associati:
Participants in the webinar of 23rd May 2022
Europe is experiencing an unprecedented surge of interest in urban agriculture as we see public community gardens becoming increasingly popular in our cities.
European citizens benefit greatly from participating in initiatives that include the opportunity to remain independent of global food markets and supply chains, to grow environmentally friendly food, to create green public spaces for leisure, learning and social cohesion, to improve the urban microclimate and to implement organic waste collection and composting practices.
These measures directly address the components of the European Green Deal (climate change, energy, transport, industrial strategy, agriculture, zero pollution, biodiversity, finance, trade) and it is in this framework that the Ukrainian Association "Energy Efficient Cities of Ukraine", held on 23rd May the webinar “Urban horticulture: the experience of Rome and Vilnius". The event was part of the activities of the project "Strengthening the capacity of Ukrainian communities to implement the objectives of the European Green Deal".
Claudio Bordi from the Municipal Agency Risorse per Roma of the City of Rome, Silvia Cioli and Fiammetta Curcio (URBACT ad-hoc experts for the RU:RBAN project) illustrated the long history of urban gardens in Rome, the city’s Regulations for the Management of Urban Gardens and many of the aspects related to the capacity building actions aimed at the implementation and management of an urban garden. Laura Petruske, architect and co-founder of the “Ideas Garden” of Vilnius, shared the parallelism between the implementation of an urban garden and “the place-making for the dialogue between the city and its citizens”.
The event was attended by representatives of urban planning and environmental protection departments of Ukrainian municipalities, NGOs and environmental associations. English-Ukrainian simultaneous translation was provided to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experiences between participants and a fruitful Q&A session marked the conclusion of the event.
Gathering at the Skalice Primary School garden
The City of Split hosted on Saturday 18th of June the event "Garden by Garden: from green areas to urban gardens in Split", which saw urban gardens and ULG members of the city as the main protagonists of the show.
Igor Belamarić (Parks and Plantations), landscape architect and ULG member, spoke of the origin of the Potlund oasis of Mediterranean plants, in the theme park "For all time", and introduced participants to the idea of a park where biodiversity and local wild plants are cultivated and preserved. He also illustrated all the challenges he had to face to set up the park, the struggle to preserve existing plants and trees and the need to change the simplified approach to landscaping based on the division of plants into "useful plants” and “weeds”.
The program continued in the Skalice primary school garden where Ivan Mateljan and Feniks Julija Antunovic, representatives of Permaculture Dalmacija and ULG members, presented the process of creating this unique space in Split and the different education programs that take place on a regular basis such as gardening and carpentry workshops as part of occupational therapy open to all interested citizens. Concepts such as garden beds, compost piles, arrangement of shrubs and trees, "hotel" for insects and outdoor classrooms were also illustrated to the participants.
However, the most important aspect highlighted throughout the event was the "life" of the garden thanks to the active role of the community through activities involving students, teachers, residents of the neighborhood and all other users of the garden space.
The outdoor classroom (part of the project design and used for the first time for this occasion), was the setting for the lecture "Urban gardens and their future in Split" by Maring Kanajet, president of Permakultura Dalmacija and also ULG member. Mr Kanajet spoke of the role and the benefits of urban gardens and introduced the RU:RBAN project, explaining that it is precisely during RU:RBAN that the city will establish a pilot project of an urban garden and will lay the foundations for all future urban gardens in Split.
The event was also the opportunity to inaugurate the benches, the garden furniture and the dry stone walls made during garden activities and to demonstrate how an urban garden can be the ideal space for lectures, outdoor film screenings and any outdoor activity in general.
News on this event (in local language) can be found at the following link: https://www.jutarnji.hr/planet/pilot-projekt-urbanog-vrta-udarit-ce-temelj-za-sve-buduce-splitske-urbane-vrtove-15212404