STUDY CENTRE MEDITERRANEAN DIET "ANGELO VASSALLO"
Unique study centre, focused on the search for balance between humanity and nature.
CENTRE FOR STUDIES ON THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET
Through international university partnerships and the formation of a Mediterranean Diet Think Tank, this unique centre facilitates the collection of information, practices and models on how the Mediterranean Diet can be used as a global resource and methodology for integral ecology and the necessary restart.
Paideia Campus also hosts the Permanent Secretariat of the Mediterranean Diet, UNESCO's intangible heritage.
Academy of Mediterranean Regeneration
Founded in collaboration with the German organisation “Climate Farmers” - the largest European network of farmers and experts on the subject - the school provides intensive programmes to learn new principles and technologies for the transition or discovery of regenerative agriculture.
This school will face three specific objectives:
- Farmers in transition to regenerative agriculture to strengthen the skilled workforce
- New farmers: young people approaching for the first time the world of agriculture or socially disadvantaged people
- migrants and refugees who are looking for a qualification to hold a job in a sector that requires skilled labour. Regenerative agriculture can guarantee the right to work on the one hand, and social inclusion and dignity on the other.
Training of school managers and trainers: Future Food Institute and Centro Studi Dieta Mediterranea are on the list of Green Communities selected by the Ministry of Education to accelerate the Ecological Transition of Italian schools and have already launched several training programs at the campus.
Agri-Culture Youth Welfare: a 10-day entrepreneurial program to train the young people of Pollica through innovative methodologies of coaching and Design Thinking to discover and enhance hidden values, creating new opportunities and distributing beauty for the collective well-being.
RETRAINING AND UPDATING PROGRAMMES
Upgrading and retraining for local teachers: S.O.F.I.A. is a training course designed for teachers of comprehensive schools and high schools of Pollica. It is a program of inspiration and co-design to resonate together the future of the school in transition to integral ecological regeneration, to rediscover the community dimension of knowledge, the relational dimension of life, freedom and the taste of knowledge.
Structured in three phases, inspiration, aspiration and action, the program analyzes the different dimensions of integral ecological regeneration, passing from food diplomacy, to food identity, to circular life, prosperity and climate-smart ecosystems, and then co-design and co-design with teachers a model of Integral ethicstarting from the fundamental values of Mediterranean Diet – conviviality, history, science, tradition, innovation, biodiversity and harmony with nature.
- How to bring territory to class?
- What is the Mediterranean?
- What does it mean to regenerate cultural diversity and Mediterranean ecosystems?
These are all aspects addressed during the course before the concrete didactic design phase.
