ECOLUSITANICA
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About the project
ECOLUSITANICA
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Associação BioLiving is an award-winning non-profit NGO which motto is "Nature and Education for All". Our objectives are, among others, to Promote sustainability; Encourage environmental citizenship and public participation in the defence of natural values; Boosting the social economy; Promote inclusion, peace and solidarity, using education, natural resources and the protection of nature as their trigger; Provide monitoring and scientific consultancy in the fields of forest, biodiversity and environmental education; but essentially to demonstrate that nature belongs to everyone and to all.
Our team includes biologists, forest engineers, land planners, ecotourism and sports professionals, designers and marketeers, historians and professional environmental educators/science communicators. We work together for over 10 years, aiming at bringing nature and biodiversity to all. Only in the last 3years we have planted over 10000 trees, restored over 15ha of degraded habitat, financed 4 scholarships, and promoted over 500 collective
actions of community/environmental volunteering. Know our work at www.facebook.com/associacaoBioliving
💼 What the programme involves
This camp will take place in Baixo Vouga Lagunar, in two areas of the Estarreja municipality, both of high ecological and social value. BioRia is a network of nature trails, a paradise for birdwatching, integrated in a Natura 2000 site.
In Canelas, the LUSITANICA project has been running since 2016, aiming to convert a degraded area into a model forest for nature conservation and fire prevention, as well as to rebuild heritage buildings: an abandoned water mill and a historic fountain ('Fonte dos Namoricos') which is very degraded. It is an area much cherished by the population, but it requires a major intervention to return to being the social dynamic pole it was in the past. This project integrates environmental and social interventions promoting sustainability as a whole.
General objectives:
- Valorization and restoration of natural and cultural heritage;
- Promotion of sustainability, environmental awareness, and biodiversity protection;
- Promotion of intercultural relationships, good environmental practices, and citizenship;
- Promotion of intergenerational contact (some activities will have elderly people helping or explaining local traditions);
- Promotion of specific skills in the field of cultural and environmental heritage protection.
- Restoration of a degraded land in Canelas, with intervention in a forest, pathways and a fountain (and public presentation of work done to the local community);- Participants will perform field tasks but also learn about nature conservation and engage in conservation-training activities, while getting to know the Portuguese fauna and flora;- Litter gathering; cleaning walking trails; controlling invasive vegetation;- Participants will also contribute to prevent forest fires by controlling shrubs and invasive vegetation;- Build shelters and a pond for wildlife
-Ecological restoration work (control of invasive species and beneficiation of fauna and flora);- Vegetation trimming and removal;- Litter gathering and cleaning of walking trails;- Improvement of local fauna, flora, and landscape;- Encouragement of international exchange and exchange of experience;- Presentation and discussion of the natural and social reality of the regions of origin of the participants;- Promotion of environmentally and socially responsible attitudes and values;- Development of action-training actions focused on individual and collective learning.
🏠 Accommodation on site
🍲 Food
The organization will provide breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Lunches and dinners are prepared/cooked by the municipalitys staff and served in a canteen, but some lunches will be served in the field (sandwiches, fruits, etc.). All canteen meals will be vegetarian.
📍 About the location
🎒 Leisure activities
- The amazing city of Aveiro, and its traditional ‘moliceiro’ boats, saltpans, and colourful houses, and modern university.
- The BioRia nature trails and aquatic sports;
- Baixo Vouga Lagunar Natura 2000 areas;
- Rare Portuguese rice fields and bocage habitat;
- Sketch’n Fun (Pictionary), art crafts, music, environmental movies night, traditional games, quiz night, talks, cultural and environmental tours.
⚠️ Requirements
Conditions of participation (internal rules of the camp)
- High sense of citizenship and environmental protection.
- Will to work for nature protection and improvement.
- Will to learn and share nature protection techniques and good practice.
- Language skills (English preferable, but also Portuguese, Spanish or French).
- Always be punctual.
- Always respect others’ opinions.
- Will to interact with local community.
🤝 Meeting point
- 25/07/2020 – 11:00 AM. - Estarreja train station
ℹ️ Additional information
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
PT-IPJ 10.1
25/07/2020 → 05/08/2020
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–30 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Vouga River, Portugal
Portugal
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
Timezone
Western European Standard Time
Local time: 21:15 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken