📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Ridracoli hosts one of the largest dam in Europe and is located within the Foreste Casentinesi National Park, in Italy. The dam is an artificial barrier that forms a large lake that has been supplying water to more than a million people in Emilia Romagna since the ‘80s. Lake Ridracoli is located 557 meters above sea level and has great environmental value; it represents a small corner of paradise and has a strong tourist impact. An interactive museum is located in the natural reserve; it\'s called “IDRO – Ridracoli\'s water Ecomuseum“ and helps to understand the importance of water in the life of all living beings.
The program of the activities is created with the aim of developing and stimulating the knowledge and critical thinking of the participants on various topics such as: the importance of water, drought, education to sustainability, climate change and global warming. The project location offers a perfect experience for a full contact with nature.
💼 What the programme involves
All the activities will be based on non-formal educational working methods: workshops, excursions, group activities, discussions, presentations, interviews, brainstorming, world-café, expression games, etc.
The activity programme also includes: - Visit to IDRO, the interactive ecomuseum with experiments and multimedia interactions on the importance of water in our daily life and for the development and the future of our planet; - Visit to the dam of Ridracoli and the viewpoints of the wildlife of the lake; - Hiking in the woods with a break in lodges surrounded by nature on the shores of the lake.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The workcamp will take place in Ridracoli, in the municipality of Bagno di Romagna in the Emila-Romagna region. Participants will be hosted in a sandstone and wood house surrounded by mountains and woods of the Foreste Casentinesi National Park near the dam. The house is equipped with bunk bedrooms, shared bathrooms and showers, equipped kitchen only for the participants, large space for outdoor activities and leisure. Everybody will collaborate in keeping the house clean. The isolated location, far from busy roads, allows the sighting of deers, roe deers and woodland animals.
📍 About the location
The activity programme also includes:
- Visit to IDRO, the interactive ecomuseum with experiments and multimedia interactions on the importance of water in our daily life and for the development and the future of our planet;
- Visit to the dam of Ridracoli and the viewpoints of the wildlife of the lake;
- Hiking in the woods with a break in lodges surrounded by nature on the shores of the lake.
For all the activities that foresee a ticket cost this it will be in charge for the volunteer.
⚠️ Requirements
English language. The camp is especially aimed at those who have passion for enviroment, nature and mountains.
