SUMMER ON THE RIVER i DISCOVER ITALIAN COUNTRYSIDE

The project is the result of an important partnership between the town Council and the Ekoclub Association. The Council believes in the promotion of youth empow-erment projects and in the development of active citizenship.Ekoclub is an association founded in 1970 to revitalise a correct way of thinking and living nature. It is founded on a deep knowledge of the environment and its healthier traditions. Exclusively non-profit and confirmed between the NGO, includes among its members several tens of thousands of people, with a growing tendency. Ekoclub differs from other environmental groups in the centrality of the human relation to the environment and therefore its ability to reap the benefits of plants and animals of the earth with respect to the actual necessity. This capability enables a man to keep his ancestral customs and to have a key effect in maintaining the environmental bal-ance.The Ekoclub Association has many provincial branches distributed in different Italian regions. The section of Palazzolo, near Brescia, is very active and has worked to the creation of international workcamps for five years with the help of young people motivated by a strong sense of civic duty.The municipality of Palazzolo sull Oglio is undertaking a project of enhance-ment of the naturalistic and historical heritage of the town in which young people are actively involved. The aim of this work is to show the international participants the an-cient historical and naturalistic backgroun