Giorgio Andrian, Philippe Pypaert - Reconciling, preservation and development


Project Leaders:
Dott. Giorgio Andrian UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Technology p-za Zorzi-Castello 4930, 30122, Venice, Italy Tel. +39 049 8274090 Fax. +39 049 8274099 E-mail: andriang@unipd.it Web-site: www.unesco.org/venice	Philippe Pypaert UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Technology p-za Zorzi-Castello 4930, 30122, Venice, Italy Tel. +39 041 2601512 Fax. +39 041 5289995 E-mail: ppypaert@unesco.org Web-site: www.unesco.org/venice

Brief description of the initiative: Workshops to identify and further develop innovative collaborative management procedures for protected areas, to gather various stakeholders and experts from different institutions in order to share the existing approaches and methodologies. Furthermore, participants are expected to design innovative co-management and methodologies to be tested in pilot areas, as start up of regional experiences under the cover of UNESCO. How to participate: Which is the purpose: to foster mutual acquaintance among youth of different Countries and Culture, to make them aware to the principles of tolerance, integration and peace, in accordance with the social mission of international integration of the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation. How it works: for each week below listed, Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation invites in Florence not less than 3 and not more than 5 university Institutes (Faculties, Academies or other) of the same cultural field coming from different countries. Each university Institute must be represented by eight students and one professor: all students (with the help of their professors) will attend a weekly workshop, which subject was defined by a Project Leader (with the previous agreement of the Foundation). All participants will be accommodated for free: double rooms for Docents, multiple rooms for students, on overnight only basis; meals and travel expenses excluded. Docents interested to participate with their students to one of the weekly workshops enlisted below, can fill up and send the Participation Request Form directly to the relative Project Leader (see the addresses below) in charge to co-ordinate the organisation of the workshop. Requsites for admission: please pay attention to following requisites which must be strictly respected: *Request of Participation: each Docent/Tutor interested to take part with his/her students in one of the below listed students’ workshop must send the relevant Participation Request Form; it must be received by the Project Leader and/or the Foundation* within 60 days before the beginning of the workshop. Each request of participation will be considered in chronological order, previous requests permitting. Participants List: If the request is accepted, each Docent/Tutor must then sent to the Project Leader and the Foundation the Participants' List (with name, surname of all members of his group, photo and signature included); it must be received by the Foundation within 3 weeks before the beginning of the workshop. "Co-operation Agreement Act": at the moment of the arrival to Florence (or before, by ordinary mail) the Docent/Tutor has to deliver two copies of the "Co-operation Agreement Act" signed by the responsible of his/her Faculty/Department/Institute; this agreement doesn'e entail any obligation but it is only a free declaration of interest for mutual co-operation for present and future initiatives with the Foundation. For further information about the working of these initiative, see the General Regulation of the workshops. Deadline: If you want to participate to this student’s workshop, please fill up and send your Participation Request Form to the Project Leader (at one of the addresses above) or the Foundation, which must be received within 16^th November 2004. Then, if your request is accepted, you have to select some students of yours and send your Participants’ List to the Project Leader and to the Foundation, which must be received within 16^th December 2004. Premise: All the students and professors taking part to the weekly workshop are accommodated thanks to Viva Hotel Fleming Novoli, Florence (Viale Guidoni 87 Florence); the final exhibition of the students' works is held on friday at Viva Hotel Alexander Novoli, Florence (Viale Guidoni 101 Florence). *()The Project Leader is the person you can apply for more information or for asking to participate to the students’ weekly workshop**

Reconciling, preservation and development, innovative approaches for management of protected areas
from 16^th to 23^rd January 2005 promoted by Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation with the support of Viva hotels in Florence
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