The GARDENS DAY is a free event dedicated to vegetable gardens for inclusive early childhood education for early childhood and primary school teachers and school managers, for educators and museum professionals.

The GARDENS DAY is part of GARDENStoGROW Urban Horticulture for Innovative and Inclusive Early Childhood Education, a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, which is focused on creating educational vegetable gardens and training courses for early childhood teachers and school managers to set up and manage themselves a permanent vegetable garden in their schools. 

Admission is free, booking is required.
Please be advised that photographs and/or videos will be taken at the event; if you do not wish to be photographed and/or filmed please inform an event organiser.

Info insegnanti@mdbr.it 

Please, register by February 21st.

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PROGRAMME

05:00 pm REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS

05:30 pm PLENARY SESSION:

Welcome speech by Patrizia Tomasich, Explora Director;

Data and analyses of the Erasmus+ Programme 2014-2020. Perspectives for the new 2021-2027 Programme, by Stefano Aiello, Erasmus+ Indire National Agency – KA2 Strategic Partnerships Office;

The value of contact with Nature and children’s direct experience for growing up, by Nice Terzi, board member of Gruppo Nazionale Nidi-Infanzia (GNNI).

06:15 pm  

PANEL – English-speaking meeting, moderator Anna Codazzi, Explora.

The three pillars of #LuissCommunityGarden: Luiss, the community and vegetable gardens, by Tommaso Dumontel, LabGov.city LUISS G. Carli;

Vegetable gardens at school, the experience of the Dungannon Primary School of Northern Ireland and the Escuela de Educación Infantil El Castellar of Bullas, by David Thompson and Maria Garcia Fernandez of Fundación Tierra Integral.

INFO DESK: 

GARDENStoLEARN is a free online course to plant and care for a vegetable garden in your school;

Life in the garden: how to recognise diseases and harmful insects, by Nicola Michelon, a research fellow at the Department of Agricultural and Food Science and Technology (DISTAL) – ALMA MATER STUDIORUM University of Bologna;

Nature in a pot: the microcosm of our gardens, by Raniero Maggini, President of WWF in Rome and Metropolitan Area; 

Vegetable gardens and inclusion: best practices and observation tools, by Paola Corsano, Full Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Parma, Laura Guidotti, a PhD in Developmental Psychology, Psychologist and Psychotherapist – Department of Human, Social Sciences and Cultural enterprises and Full Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology Coordinator of the PhD program in Psychology, University of Parma,by Lina Gaudiomonte and Francesca Notargiovanni, teachers at the Claudio Abbado Comprehensive School – E. Pistelli early childhood school.