AGRO-EUROPEAN TOURISM, how to reinvigorate rural areas
AGRO-EUROPEAN
TOURISM, how to reinvigorate rural areas
Training course with workshops & visits in Spain
TITLE
KIND OF ACTIVITY
“AGRO-EUROPEAN TOURISM, how to reinvigorate rural areas”
Training course with workshops & visits.
LOCATION Cantabria, Spain.
PROJECT DATES From Nov. 2016 to May 2017.
TARGET GROUP Mainly directed to local development agents with interest in the agro tourism world.
DURATION OF THE COURSE 10 days + 2 travelling days = 12 days.
FRAMEWORK OF ACTION MOBILITY PROJECT FOR ADULT EDUCATION STAFF Pages 68 -74
APPLICATION FORM Application form direct link
SUMMARY OF
THE PROJECT
From Permacultura Cantabria (NGO located in the north of Spain) we want to invite you to carry out a training activity sponsored by the ERASMUS+ programme.
We are organizing a training course “Agro-European Tourism, how to reinvigorate rural areas” to which we are pleased to invite you.
We have developed a 12-day programme, so that agency officers of local development institutions interested in entrepreneurship strategies, could get to know the initiatives taken in our territory and at the same time, share with us what it is done in their countries.
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INDEX
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Day 3
Day 5
Day 6
Day 9
Day 10
Manufacturing of artisan products in the Pasiegan Valleys
From the countryside to the city and from the city to the countryside
Agriculture and farming in Pasiegan Valleys
The importance of history and educational resources
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We will send you the project for you to check it out
Waiting for the answer of your national agency
Coordination to arrange applications and other activity preparations
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PLANNING
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PLANNING 1 day 2 day 3 day 4 day 5 day 6 day
Breakfast 8:30
1st Session 9:30
Travelling day
Travelling day
Coffee break 11:30 Travelling day
2nd Session 12:00 Travelling day
Lunch 13:30 Travelling day
3rd Session 15:30 Travelling day
Coffee break 17:00 Travelling day
4th Session 17:30
Evaluation 19:00
Participants welcome
Room distribution
Dinner 20:00 Dinner
Soirée 21:30
Rest 23:00
Games for introducing ourselves
Rest
Breakfast
Intro to the rural world wall)
(Post-its
Coffee break
The importance of traditional games
Lunch
(playing)
From traditional to modern (Scale of values)
Breakfast
Taking care of environmental landscape (Visit to the Pasiegan valleys)
Coffee break
Wild fruits and berries production
Lunch
Traditional
Farming reestructuring
(Alpacas)
Breakfast
Local strategic actions
(Community of municipalities)
Coffee break
Examples of Regional
Development
Lunch
Creating local trademarks and quality seals
Coffee break
Breakfast
Conversion of old mines into an international
Park
Coffee break
Visit to
Cabarceno Park
Lunch
Visit the research area of
Cabarceno Park
Coffee break
Walk and rest
Daily evaluation
Visit to the educational area of Cabarceno
Park
Return and evaluation
Dinner Dinner
Cinema forum Sharing time
Breakfast
Opening gates to International tourism (Ferries
Santander)
Coffee break
The importance of Museums
(Maritime)
Lunch
Connecting countryside and sea (Santander-
Somo)
Coffee break
The importance of cultures and their languages
(Linguistic game)
Presentation of the evaluation system
Dinner
Sharing time
Coffee break
Local products manufacturing and processing
(Quesadas and sobaos)
Return and evaluation
Dinner
Sharing time
Coffee break
City marketing of rural products
Return and evaluation
Dinner
Sharing time
Rest Rest Rest Rest Rest
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PLANNING 7 day 8 day 9 day 10 day 11 day 12 day
Breakfast 8:30 Breakfast
1st Session 9:30 Sharing
Initiatives
(Part I)
Coffee break 11:30 Coffee break
2nd Session 12:00
Lunch 13:30
Sharing
Initiatives
(Part II)
Lunch
3rd Session 15:30 Open space I
Coffee break 17:00
Coffee break
4th Session 17:30 Walk and rest
Evaluation 19:00 Daily Evaluation
Dinner 20:00 Dinner
Soirée 21:30 Sharing time
Rest 23:00 Rest
Breakfast
Developing projects with
Dragon Dreaming methodology
Coffee break
Dreaming projects
Lunch
Breakfast
Visit the vocational training school on dairy products in Cayón
Coffee break
A transformation example of Jarradilla livestock farming
Lunch
Dragon Dreaming
Goals
Coffee break
Youth agricultural
Initiatives
Nestlé factory: analysis and its impact in local economy
Project designs
Daily Evaluation
Celebrating
Initiatives
Daily Evaluation
Breakfast
Protecting historic heritages
(Castillo Caves)
Coffee break
Breakfast
Open space II
Coffee break
Dinner
Cinema forum
Dinner
Sharing time
Rest Rest
Sharing time
Rest
Farewell party and providing certificates
Rest
Breakfast
Farewell
Return
Travelling day Agrienvironmental
Resources, I
Lunch
Agrienvironmental
Resources, II
Networking
Lunch
Initiatives and
Proposals
Presentation
Visit to an artisan brewery
Coffee break
Return
Daily Evaluation
Evaluation in groups
Activity Review and Evaluation
Dinner Dinner
Travelling day
Travelling day
Travelling day
Travelling day
Travelling day
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PROJECT SUMMARY
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PROJECT SUMMARY
Day 1 and 12 First and last day will be intended for travelling. On the arrival day, we will collect participants from train and bus stations and airports in Santander, so as to facilitate the arrival to our centre. The same will be done on the leaving day.
Days 2, 4, 7, 8 and 11 These classes will be given at the training room. There are, mainly, three kinds of classes:
· Those in which an expert comes and shares his/ her experience.
· Participative classes, in which participants share their experience and knowledge.
· Group work where projects and future collaborations will be designed.
Days 3, 5, 6, 9 and 10 These classes will be given outside the training room. We will visit different projects and initiatives to learn directly from their examples.
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VISITS
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VISITS
Day 3 Manufacturing of artisan products in the
Pasiegan Valleys
The main goal of this day will be getting to know the Pasiegan Valleys. This rural area was known for its farming activities, but lately it entered into a downturn. Eventually, this activity was boosted, as well as the beautiful landscape in which it is located. We will witness the whole cycle: how food products are produced, elaborated and marketed. At the same time, we will observe the efforts made to keep the environmental heritage.
Growing organic blueberries in the Pasiegan
Valleys: “LA PIZPIRETA”
There is a small exploitation (one hectare), where, with love and good deeds, different varieties of wild fruits are grown (Blueberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants, raspberries and blackberries). All of them are grown organically, keeping in this way, all its flavour and natural properties.
Alpacas in Vega de Pas
Alpacas del Alto Pas is an exploitation of alpacas recently created. It is located in the southern valleys of Cantabria
(north of Spain). It is the result of several years of hard work, planning and training. It has been brought to life in the middle of the economic crisis, a time where the increasing financial loss urges many traditional farmers to abandon the countryside or search for new alternatives.
Pasiegan sobaos and quesadas: “JOSELIN”
Pasiegan Valleys are known for their high quality raw materials, derived from family farming and agriculture.
Sobaos and quesadas (traditional baked products)
Joselín are a good example of how to exploit this quality in order to keep on producing, with artisan recipes, the traditional desserts of the area.
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VISITS
Day 5 Cabárceno Natural Park
Cabárceno Natural Park, a part from being a zoo (belonging to one of the most important
European zoological associations), it is distinguished for its potential as an animal rescue centre, especially for its undoubted success in reproduction of endangered species.
For this reason, every year, the Park develops investigation and educational programmes.
They aim to continue with this important task of helping the survival of different species that should never disappear of their, our planet.
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VISITS
Day 6 From the countryside to the city and from the city to the countryside
Countryside and cities are closely linked and they need each other. Santander, a part from being the most populated city of our
Region, it is also a very attractive maritime city full of charm. This day we will explore this relationship, specially the entrance of international tourism from the city to the rural areas and the distribution of products in metropolitan areas.
Visit to the maritime area: Beaches and the main maritime transportations
The first stop will be at the travel centre Brittany Ferries.
Then, we will get to know Santander’s bay and its beaches on a boat trip.
Santander’s Maritime Museum
The Cantabrian Maritime Museum is dedicated to the promotion of the maritime heritage of the Bay. Its resources, one of the most important and complex of the country, allow having a global approach to the marine biodiversity and a perspective of the diverse ways of relationships of human beings with it, through centuries and from different points of view.
Local stores specialized in Cantabrian products sale
In Santander’s city centre we will visit different models of distribution of Cantabrian local products. A remarkable place is the Esperanza Market and other small local stores dedicated to quality products.
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Day 9 Agriculture and farming in Pasiegan Valleys Visit to the JARRADILLA livestock farming and cheese factory
La Jarradilla is a family project, which involves three generations determined to achieve a goal:
Make a living out of the rural environment.
Jarradilla cheese factory produces artisan pasiegan cheeses from their own livestock. It is a great example of how a family managed to adapt to the market. Their products were even awarded with international prizes.
Visit the vocational training studies of dairy products and the Nestlé factory
Two of the main institutions, which encourage the regional development, are the vocational study centre of dairy products and the Nestlé factory. We will get to know their facilities and the key aspects of the training, as well as its job opportunities.
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VISITS
Day 10 The importance of history and educational resources
Visit to the Castillo Caves in Puente Viesgo
By the river Pas, where it passes through Puente
Viesgo, we find the Castillo Mountain. It hosts inside four caves with prehistoric art, declared
World Heritage by UNESCO, in 2008. The most remarkable one is called El Castillo, whose vestibule was excavated at the beginning of the XX century, writing the “first page” of Prehistory in Spain, and the “first chapter” in Europe.
Visit the Dougall’s brewery
In this brewery they pay special attention to the raw material; they select it with care and completely personal criteria. This company had an organic growth, when they run out of beer, they would invest in equipment, so as to quench their consumers’ thirst.
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MAP
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MAP
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Maritime area
(pag. 12)
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Cabárceno zoo park
(pag. 11)
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Dougall’s brewery
(pag. 14)
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Puente
Viesgo
(pag. 14)
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Pasiegan
Valleys
(pags. 10, 13) to Oviedo
(2 h.)
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5 to Bilbao
(1 h.)
PROJECT STAGES
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STEP BY STEP
PROJECT STAGES
Request collaboration
Application form
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Deadline to send us the application form is the 15th of January. In order to be able to work together, we need to know that you are interested, that you can meet the demanded requirements and that you agree with the working conditions. In the application form, you will have to fill in your contact details and answer other questions, which will help us to draft the project, so that, ultimately, you can submit it to your national agency. In this manner, we will be able to work jointly and meet the deadline of the first round of
Erasmus + 2016.
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STEP BY STEP
PROJECT STAGES
Applications will be accepted by strict order of arrival, provided that they meet the minimum requirements. From Permacultura
Cantabria, we commit ourselves to answer applications, within a week after it was sent.
If your organization is accepted, we will write the erasmus + application, send you all the necessary documents and reports already filled out, so that you can check them out.
Thus, we simplify, largely, the work of filling out all the necessary documentation.
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We will send you the project for you to check it out
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STEP BY STEP
PROJECT STAGES
Submitting the project online
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The last step is to submit the project in the online form of the Erasmus + application. This is your responsibility, but It will be very simple because we will send you the written project and you only have to fill in the different questions of the form and click “submit”.
Still, it is important to check that all signed and stamped documents are attached, that all data are correct and, especially, to do it all before midday, the 1st of February (official deadline). We suggest not leaving it for the last day, in case any problem arises.
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STEP BY STEP
PROJECT STAGES
National agencies normally take the decision of approval or denial within 2 months. Thus, we would know if we succeeded, the latest, in the midst of April. Whatever the answer would be, it is very important, that you inform us as soon as possible, so as to keep on organizing. We will keep in contact, if we don’t hear from you by the end of April, we will write you asking for any news.
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Waiting for the answer of your national agency
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PROJECT STAGES
STEP BY STEP Start preparing the activity
In case the project is approved
(Congratulations!), we will need to start with the organization of the project. If all the due dates are respected and nothing strange interferes, by the midst of June, your
National Agency should have deposited you, the 80% of the grant awarded. Once your organization receives this amount you have to make a transfer to our entity, so that we can start with the staff recruitment and the preparation of the activity. The amount you should deposit in our account is the 79% of the total amount received.
The rest, the 21%, will be the amount that you have at your disposal for the travel expenses and the preparation of the activity.
Thus, neither your agency, nor ours, will have to advance any money and we won’t run any risk.
Distribution
Example:
30.445 €
1 st payment
80%
(Around June)
2 nd payment
20%
(2 months after justifying)
Awarded 24.356 € 6.089 €
For the sending organization
For
Permacultura
Cantabria
5.708 €
19.278 €
TOTAL 24.356 €
6.089 €
0 €
6.089 €
37% of the total
63% of the total
30.445 €
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STEP BY STEP
PROJECT STAGES
At the beginning of the academic year
(September 2016), your organization should start with the participant’s selection process.
The group must have one person in charge, a coordinator, who will manage the necessary documentation and stay in close contact with the Spanish organizer.
Our organization will facilitate all the necessary information: location, emergency telephone numbers, how to get there, what to bring, the programme of activities and any other relevant information necessary to carry out the activity successfully.
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Coordination to arrange applications and other activity preparations
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STEP BY STEP
PROJECT STAGES
Carrying out the activity
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We will make sure that the activity is carried out successfully and, ultimately, provide participation certificates and diplomas. Your coordinator has just the single task of writing a small evaluation every evening (15 minutes).
Thus, when we finish the activity, you will have all the necessary documentation to elaborate the final report appropriately.
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STEP BY STEP
PROJECT STAGES
Elaborating the final report
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Finally, and in order to close the project, it is necessary to write a simple report and submit it to your national agency. If the coordinator did his job during the activity, it will be very easy. Sometimes, some organizations have assigned a certain percentage of the budget for pocket money, but only gave it to participants after they had written a little memory of their experience, when the activity was over. Anyhow, your organization is responsible to close the process. Once it is done, the National Agency will deposit you the final amount, which will be entirely for your organization.
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PRACTICAL
INFORMATION
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PRACTICAL
INFORMATION
HOW TO GET THERE Cantabria is located in the north of Spain.
You can reach here by:
Plane: there are 3 airports (by order of proximity):
· Santander: It is the best choice and the most close to the location of our activity. Ryanair is operating from several countries, at low fares, with Santander as destination. If a cheap flight is not found, you can also consider flying to Bilbao or Madrid.
· Bilbao: It is one-hour drive from Santander. There is a good bus connection, leaving every hour from Bilbao bus station to Santander bus station.
· Madrid: Madrid is the capital city of Spain and it has the one of its principal airports. From Madrid you can arrive to Santander by bus or train.
Bus: either from Bilbao or from Madrid, here you have the website of the bus company which covers this itinerary: www.alsa.es
Train: from Madrid you could also get to
Santander by train: www.renfe.com
We will help the sending organization with the travel arrangements, sending detailed information, with enough time before the activity starts.
Permacultura Cantabria will be in charge of the travels from the airport, bus and train stations to the accommodation, both in the arrival and leaving days.
This service will be coordinated and will follow an established schedule, which must be respected. In case that participants couldn’t reach this schedule, they should get to the activity facilities by their own means.
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VARIOUS DETAILS
ACCOMMODATION Accommodation will take place in one of the available hostels of the organization. We attach some images of the most usual places where we carry our activities out.
All facilities have bunker bedrooms, activity rooms, Wi-Fi, bathrooms and hot water showers. They are also in compliance with the national regulations about public accommodation.
In the case that someone has special needs, allergies or any other relevant information that should be taken into account so as to organize or adapt the activity and its infrastructures, he or she should notify it in the application form.
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Urb. Bautizan, N4, Bajo B, La Helguera,
Penagos, Cantabria, Spain tfn.: 0034 636 231 390 permaculturacantabria@gmail.com
