The past year, a partnership of four private organizations based in Abruzzo, in Milan and in Lebanon with the leadership of the Municipality of Fontecchio (Abruzzo, within the candidate - Middle Aterno Valley Model Forest), applied for a grant by AICS and won a relevant subsidy to fund the project “From the Apennines to the Shouf: migrations of experiences and knowledge across the Mediterranean (Lebanon)”.
The project will promote exchange actions between Italy and Lebanon with purposes of best practices replication. The interconnections among the partners’ network will be consolidated and the creation of new collaborations will be facilitated, hence strengthening a system of knowledge exchange beyond the end of the project.
The project will encourage the creation of participatory management mechanisms that will ensure the long-term feasibility of the conservation and promotional activities of agro-ecosystems based on the models tested in Abruzzo, Marche and Tuscany framing them according to participatory management schemes such as Model Forest, Water Framework Directive and Slow Food community.
