Gardeniser Community activities kick off. Gardenisers, gardeners and non-gardeners who will be part of the project's community of practice will contribute to meetings and focus groups based on participatory activities that will facilitate the discovery of the educational, social and cultural benefits of the community gardens.
This is a research and training project carried out in three European countries by third sector organisations with the scientific guidance of the University of Roma Tre, which will ultimately result in the development of an innovative online tool for reading the impact areas of community gardens on their territory: the Community Impact Tracker.
Why is it important to take part in this process?
- because the community garden is an important actor in the city
- to promote the garden as a space for learning and participation
- to increase its accountability towards institutions and businesses
The project focuses on the participatory construction of a matrix that can help urban community gardens to make a self-reading of the impacts of their actions on their territory, aiming to have, at the end of the 3-year project, an online tracker that will help the gardens to
- read their own impacts and govern their community project over time (replicable and updatable reading over time)
- use the DASHBOARD that the tracker gives back to the community garden, to increase its credibility towards the institutions
- use this tool to communicate to companies with social responsibility the value of each of their investments in support of the community gardens
Being able to count on the help of the Roma Tre University and its students, we may be able to expand the capacity to support several urban community gardens at the same time in Rome, allowing them to have a reading of their impacts already during this process.
Gardeniser Community is an Erasmus+ Adult Education project coordinated by Replay Network aps (Italy) in partnership with Roma Tre University - Department of Economics, Sustainable Human Development course, Gartenpolylog (Austria) and Pistes-Solidaires (France).
