📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Legambiente Dora Baltea local group takes its name from Dora Baltea river that flows through the AMI. Our activities are focused on safeguarding the Morenic Amphitheatre of Ivrea area, either monitoring new industrial settlements or maintaining the natural balance thanks to volunteers activities. We also partecipate to national campaigns such as “Cleaning the World” and “Alps Caravanning”. We cooperate with other local clubs engaged in similar activities and involving specifically young people.
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: The activities will be focused on the prevention against hydrogeological instability and to the enhancement of the area. The main activity will be the environmental restoration of specific areas previously identified by local administrations. Activities will be shared with local firefighting volunteers (AIB association) and other people already involved in preventive interventions against hydrogeological instability. STUDY PART: There will be held activities and focus groups about themes as sharing economy, local food supply chain, the importance of recycling and the immigration politics and integration of migrants and refugees. An important focus of the actions will be the prevention against hydrogeological risk. The knowledge of the region, the AMI, and the history of the social- entrepreneurial model developed by Adriano Olivetti will be the focuses of some guided tours.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be hosted in a guest house of the Municipality, equipped with beds and toilet services. There is a kitchen inside the house.
📍 About the location
LOCATION AND LEISURE: Chiaverano is 55 km far from Turin, and Valle Aosta 39 km. It is located in a naturalistic context of exceptional importance: the largest morain amphitheater in Europe. This scenario is dominated by the straight and regular profile of the great Serra morain, 25 km long, that is one of the most characteristic site with lots of geological peculiarities. At its feet there are five glacial lakes. Chiaverano is an ancient medieval village, offering an exciting view of the area.
TERMINAL: The nearest airport is Caselle Airport, Torino; or Milan Malpensa, Linate, Orio al Serio in Lombardia region. The nearest train station is Ivrea. There are trains or buses between airports and Turin, then trains or buses from Turin to Ivrea. A bus from Ivrea gets Chiaverano.