Day 1 –  Wednesday - Visual – 25^th May 2022

8.30am  

Registration / Tea / Coffee – Networking

9.00am

Welcome by Chief Executive , Kathleen Holohan  & Cathaoirleach – Cllr. Fintan Phelan

9.30am- 12.30pm

RU:RBAN Training – Part 1

E2 – Gardenisers – Andrea Messori

The aim of Gardenisers  training is to Inform and guide participants on the profile of the Gardeniser in a community garden, increasing their awareness of the complexity of the role and exercising the main social and coordination functions, through activities and simulations, in order to start identification processes and enhancement of the subjects that, at the local level, normally play this role in gardens.

The training course aims to achieve the following specific objectives:

• Support participants in conceptualizing possible structures and missions of urban gardens;
• Understand the costs and benefits of the urban garden;
• Reflect on the role of the urban garden in the local context;
• Support participants in conceptualizing the figure of the Gardeniser;
• Exercise the role of Gardeniser in its main functions

This training course is delivered by Experiential learning. Experiential learning  is represented by the activities that are proposed and which act as a stimulus for the participant leading them to a reflection on their reactions, on their way of relating to others and to the topic addressed, collecting, through sharing, the reflections of the other participants. In this case the trainer facilitates the circulation of ideas for reflection, possibly supporting their systematization and abstraction in terms of analysis.

12.00pm - 2.00pm

Delta Centre Lunch & Tour

2.00pm

RU:RBAN Training Part 2

E2 – Gardenisers – Andrea Messori

6.00pm

Close of Day 1

Day 2 – Thursday - 26^th May 2022

8.30am - 11.00am 

Case Study Visit:  An Gairdín Beo

An Gairdín Beo, a two-acre community garden in the centre of Carlow town where people work together then reap the rewards together.

In 2014, the possibility of a community garden being created on what was then an overgrown site began to be explored. In 2015 a Board of Directors was established and An Gairdín Beo has since registered as a Charity.

Their  ethos is based on valuing diversity, sustainability, organic methods and indigenous species. The overall vision of the garden is of a space where people can connect more with nature, with the growing and making of food and with one another

11.00am - 12.30pm

E1 - Capacity Building Open Session – Silvia Cioli, Ad-hoc expert 

(including small networking breaks)

12.30pm

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