2018 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
XII Edition 2018
Accepted
ENGLISH
1) Who’s presenting the candidacy?
- The Environmental Interpretation Center, which is part of the Mealhada City Council, was established in October 7th 2015 and is managed in cooperation with the National Forest of Bussaco Foundation.
- The Alive Laboratory of Bussaco is implemented in two different locations: the Environmental Interpretation Center, located in the City Park of Mealhada, which has a green surface of 14 hectares and in the 105 hectares of the National Forest of Bussaco, a candidate for UNESCO World Heritage.
- The Environmental Interpretation Center, is equipped with high-end technology (ex: microscopes, augmented reality…), which enables the implementation of different pedagogical activities and is therefore considered a scientific laboratory.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6LpPSUjt5I (External link)
City Council website: http://www.cm-mealhada.pt/ (External link)
FMB website: http://www.fmb.pt/v2/pt/ (External link)
1) Who’s presenting the candidacy?
- The Environmental Interpretation Center, which is part of the Mealhada City Council, was established in October 7th 2015 and is managed in cooperation with the National Forest of Bussaco Foundation.
- The Alive Laboratory of Bussaco is implemented in two different locations: the Environmental Interpretation Center, located in the City Park of Mealhada, which has a green surface of 14 hectares and in the 105 hectares of the National Forest of Bussaco, a candidate for UNESCO World Heritage.
- The Environmental Interpretation Center, is equipped with high-end technology (ex: microscopes, augmented reality…), which enables the implementation of different pedagogical activities and is therefore considered a scientific laboratory.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6LpPSUjt5I (External link)
City Council website: http://www.cm-mealhada.pt/ (External link)
FMB website: http://www.fmb.pt/v2/pt/ (External link)
2) What’s the experience about?
The Environmental Interpretation Center (EIC) is framed under the municipal strategy and has the mission to “sensitize citizens regarding environmental issues and promoting behavioral changes in the community in order to face sustainability challenges”.
Goals: to awaken the curiosity for knowledge, understanding, valorization and preservation of the natural environment of the Bussaco Forest and the species which inhabit it; to contribute to the development of an environmentally conscious and informed society; to expand the cooperation between students and teachers, building the bases for an ecologically healthy society; to democratize the community’s access to science and technology; and to create opportunities and spaces for public discussion and participation.
EIC activities are meant to be educational tools for citizenship, heritage, environment and non-formal science, all gathered in a living laboratory. These are identified based in a participatory methodology (bottom-up) where session participants, school community and associations are heard in order to adjust the activities to the main curricular topics. They are grouped the following way: campaigns of awareness; educational activities; workshops; trails to explore the City Park and the Forest; laboratory workshops; recycling workshops; commemoration of environmental ephemeris (for example, Earth Day); temporary expositions; and reusage competitions.
It’s considered a Living Lab despite the fact that it is not yet formally established. Its goal is to turn the community and the forest into an experimentation laboratory for ecological solutions and environmental preservation (for example, attracting auxiliaries for the plants through insect and bird nests).
The group methodology is assumed as reflective of life conditions, based in an adaptation of The Experiential Learning Cycle of the American psychologist David Kolb (1990), who starts from an individual and group experiment and goes on to reflect on it.
The Environmental Interpretation Center (EIC) is framed under the municipal strategy and has the mission to “sensitize citizens regarding environmental issues and promoting behavioral changes in the community in order to face sustainability challenges”.
Goals: to awaken the curiosity for knowledge, understanding, valorization and preservation of the natural environment of the Bussaco Forest and the species which inhabit it; to contribute to the development of an environmentally conscious and informed society; to expand the cooperation between students and teachers, building the bases for an ecologically healthy society; to democratize the community’s access to science and technology; and to create opportunities and spaces for public discussion and participation.
EIC activities are meant to be educational tools for citizenship, heritage, environment and non-formal science, all gathered in a living laboratory. These are identified based in a participatory methodology (bottom-up) where session participants, school community and associations are heard in order to adjust the activities to the main curricular topics. They are grouped the following way: campaigns of awareness; educational activities; workshops; trails to explore the City Park and the Forest; laboratory workshops; recycling workshops; commemoration of environmental ephemeris (for example, Earth Day); temporary expositions; and reusage competitions.
It’s considered a Living Lab despite the fact that it is not yet formally established. Its goal is to turn the community and the forest into an experimentation laboratory for ecological solutions and environmental preservation (for example, attracting auxiliaries for the plants through insect and bird nests).
The group methodology is assumed as reflective of life conditions, based in an adaptation of The Experiential Learning Cycle of the American psychologist David Kolb (1990), who starts from an individual and group experiment and goes on to reflect on it.
3) Why is it innovative?
- The Mealhada City Council has the co-responsibility of preserving and valuing Bussaco, therefore creating the Interpretation Center to develop an educational tool towards environmental citizenship and cultural identity that is close to the population and aiming its active participation.
- Association/Partnership with the Foundation’s educational services - through the implementation of environmental workshops, such as “The Forest goes to School” and by invigorating family oriented experimental activities.
- Methodology: The experimental activities provide what David Kolb called “The Experiential Learning Cycle”. Through these, participants think about different practices and enhance their perception about what they can improve and preserve. It’s a process which fosters learning and behavioral changes of the participants of the Living Laboratory of Bussaco: it enables to link theory and practice; it promotes group integration; it develops self-awareness; it searches for creative team solutions; and it helps people experience feelings and sensations which a specific situation may create.
- Participatory Framing of the Activity Plan: To meet students’ and teachers’ interests, by adjusting and adapting the content of the programme; and through the municipal strategy to promote and value Bussaco.
- Education for Science: Promotion of the democratization and inclusion in the access to science and technology.
- The Mealhada City Council has the co-responsibility of preserving and valuing Bussaco, therefore creating the Interpretation Center to develop an educational tool towards environmental citizenship and cultural identity that is close to the population and aiming its active participation.
- Association/Partnership with the Foundation’s educational services - through the implementation of environmental workshops, such as “The Forest goes to School” and by invigorating family oriented experimental activities.
- Methodology: The experimental activities provide what David Kolb called “The Experiential Learning Cycle”. Through these, participants think about different practices and enhance their perception about what they can improve and preserve. It’s a process which fosters learning and behavioral changes of the participants of the Living Laboratory of Bussaco: it enables to link theory and practice; it promotes group integration; it develops self-awareness; it searches for creative team solutions; and it helps people experience feelings and sensations which a specific situation may create.
- Participatory Framing of the Activity Plan: To meet students’ and teachers’ interests, by adjusting and adapting the content of the programme; and through the municipal strategy to promote and value Bussaco.
- Education for Science: Promotion of the democratization and inclusion in the access to science and technology.
ESPAÑOL
1) ¿Quién presenta la candidatura?
- El Centro de Interpretación Ambiental, propiedad del Ayuntamiento de Mealhada, fue creado el 7/10/2015 y es gestionado en cooperación con la Fundación del Bosque Nacional de Bussaco.
- El Laboratorio Vivo de Bussaco se divide entre el espacio del Centro de Interpretación Ambiental, situado en pleno Parque de la Ciudad de Mealhada, con un área verde de 14 hectáreas; y las 105 hectáreas del Bosque Nacional de Bussaco, candidata al Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO.
- El Centro de Interpretación Ambiental está dotado con los más modernos equipamientos (por ejemplo microscopios o realidad aumentada, entre otros) y permite la realización de diversas actividades pedagógicas, constituyéndose un laboratorio científico.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6LpPSUjt5I (External link)
Web del Ayuntamiento: http://www.cm-mealhada.pt/ (External link)
Web de la FMB: http://www.fmb.pt/v2/pt/ (External link)
Web del Ayuntamiento: http://www.cm-mealhada.pt/ (External link)
Web de la FMB: http://www.fmb.pt/v2/pt/ (External link)
2) ¿En qué consiste la experiencia?
El Centro de Interpretación Ambiental (CIA) se enmarca en la estrategia municipal y tiene la misión de "sensibilizar a los ciudadanos sobre la problemática ambiental, promoviendo el cambio de comportamiento en la comunidad para hacer frente a los desafíos de la sostenibilidad".
Objetivos: despertar la curiosidad por el conocimiento, comprensión, valoración y preservación del medio natural en el Bosque de Bussaco y las especies que allí habitan; contribuir a la formación de una ciudadanía ambientalmente consciente e informada; desarrollar la cooperación de alumnos y profesores, sentando los cimientos para una sociedad ecológicamente sana; democratizar el acceso a la ciencia y a la tecnología para la comunidad; y crear oportunidades y espacios de discusión pública y participación.
Las actividades del CIA se inscriben en un trabajo de educación para la ciudadanía, el patrimonio, el entorno y la ciencia de ámbito no formal, materializado en un Laboratorio Vivo. Estas tienen como base una metodología participativa (bottom-up) de escucha de los participantes de las sesiones, de la comunidad escolar y de las asociaciones. Para adecuarlas a los principales temas curriculares, están agrupadas de la siguiente forma: acciones de sensibilización; acciones de formación; talleres; itinerarios de descubrimiento del Parque de la Ciudad y del Bosque; talleres de laboratorio; talleres de reutilización; la conmemoración de efemérides ambientales (por ejemplo, el Día de la Tierra); exposiciones temporales; y concursos de reutilización de materiales.
Se asume como un Laboratorio Vivo aunque todavía no está formalmente constituido, transformando la comunidad y el bosque en un laboratorio de experimentación de soluciones ecológicas y de preservación ambiental (por ejemplo, atracción de auxiliares para las plantas, construyendo nidos de insectos y pájaros). La metodología de grupo asume como reflexión las situaciones de vida, incidiendo en una adaptación del Ciclo de Aprendizaje Vivencial (CAV), del psicólogo estadounidense David Kolb (1990), que parte de una experiencia individual y de grupo, y reflexiona sobre ella.
3) ¿Por qué es innovadora?
- Papel del Ayuntamiento de Mealhada: Tiene la corresponsabilidad de la preservación y valorización de Bussaco, creando el Centro Interpretativo para desarrollar un trabajo de educación para la ciudadanía ambiental e identidad cultural, cerca de la población y con su participación activa.
- Asociación con la Fundación al nivel del servicio educativo: A través de la realización de talleres "el bosque va a la escuela" y actividades experienciales para familias.
- Metodología: La actividad experiencial proporciona lo que David Kolb denominó CAV. A partir de la actividad, los participantes reflexionan sobre las prácticas, aumentando la percepción sobre lo que pueden mejorar y preservar. Es un proceso que favorece el aprendizaje y el cambio efectivo de comportamientos de los participantes en el Laboratorio Vivo del Bussaco: posibilidad de unir teoría a la práctica; promover la integración del grupo; conocimiento de sí mismo; búsqueda de soluciones creativas en equipo; y vivencia de sentimientos y sensaciones que determinada situación puede causar.
- Construcción Participativa del Plan de Actividades: Ir al encuentro de los intereses de los alumnos y profesores, adecuando a los contenidos programáticos; y la estrategia municipal de promoción y valorización del Bussaco.
- Educación para la ciencia: Promoción de la democratización e inclusión en el acceso a la ciencia y la tecnología
FRANÇAIS
1) Qui soumet la proposition?
Le Centre d'interprétation de l'environnement, propriété du Conseil municipal de Mealhada, a été créé le 10 octobre 2015 et est géré en coopération avec la Fondation nationale des forêts de Bussaco.
Le laboratoire vivant de Bussaco est divisé en l'espace du Centre d'interprétation environnementale, situé au milieu du parc municipal de Mealhada, avec une zone verte de 14 hectares et les 105 hectares de la forêt nationale de Bussaco, candidat au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO .
Le Centre d'Interprétation de l'Environnement est équipé des équipements les plus modernes (par exemple, microscopes, réalité augmentée, ...), permettant la réalisation de diverses activités pédagogiques, constituant un laboratoire scientifique.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6LpPSUjt5I (External link)
Site du conseil Municipal: http://www.cm-mealhada.pt/ (External link)
Site de la Fondation nationale des forêts de Bussaco : http://www.fmb.pt/v2/pt/ (External link)
Site du conseil Municipal: http://www.cm-mealhada.pt/ (External link)
Site de la Fondation nationale des forêts de Bussaco : http://www.fmb.pt/v2/pt/ (External link)
2) Quelle est l'expérience?
Le Centre d'Interprétation de l'Environnement (CIE) fait partie de la stratégie municipale, avec pour mission de «sensibiliser les citoyens sur les questions environnementales, en promouvant le changement de comportement dans la communauté pour faire face aux défis de la durabilité».
Objectifs: éveiller la curiosité pour la connaissance, la compréhension, la valorisation et la préservation de l'environnement naturel dans la forêt de Bussaco et pour les espèces qui y vivent; contribuer à la formation d'une citoyenneté respectueuse de l'environnement et informée; développer la coopération des étudiants et des enseignants, en construisant les bases d'une société écologiquement saine; démocratiser l'accès à la science et à la technologie à la communauté; et créer des opportunités et des espaces de discussion publique et de participation.
Les activités du CIE s'inscrivent dans un travail d'éducation à la citoyenneté, au patrimoine, à l'environnement et à la science, non-formel, matérialisé dans un laboratoire vivant. Ceux-ci sont identifiés à partir d'une méthodologie participative (bottom-up) d'écoute des participants aux sessions, de la communauté scolaire et des associations. Pour les adapter aux principaux sujets du programme, ils sont regroupés comme suit: actions de sensibilisation; actions de formation; des ateliers; itinéraires de découverte de la ville et du parc forestier; ateliers de laboratoire; ateliers de réutilisation; la commémoration des éphémérides environnementales (par exemple, le Jour de la Terre); Expositions temporaires; et, des concours pour la réutilisation des matériaux.
Il est considéré comme un laboratoire vivant, bien qu'il ne soit pas encore officiellement constitué, transformant la communauté et la forêt en un laboratoire d'expérimentation de solutions écologiques et de préservation de l'environnement (par exemple, attraction de plantes auxiliaires, nids d'insectes et d'oiseaux). .
La méthodologie de groupe prend en compte les situations de la vie, en se concentrant sur une adaptation du cycle d'apprentissage vivante (CAV), du psychologue américain David Kolb (1990), qui part d'une expérience individuelle et collective et réfléchit sur elle.
3) Pourquoi vous considérez que c’est une pratique innovante?
Le rôle de la Mairie de Mealhada - la coresponsabilité dans la préservation et la valorisation de Bussaco, la création du Centre d'Interprétation pour développer un travail éducatif pour la citoyenneté environnementale et l'identité culturelle, proche de la population et avec leur participation active.
Association avec la Fondation au niveau du service éducatif - à travers des ateliers «la forêt va à l'école» et des activités expérientielles pour les familles.
Méthodologie - L'activité expérientielle fournit ce que David Kolb a appelé le CAV. De l'activité, les participants réfléchissent sur les pratiques, augmentant la perception de ce qu'ils peuvent améliorer et préserver.
C'est un processus qui favorise l'apprentissage et le changement effectif des comportements des participants au Laboratoire Vif du Bussaco: possibilité de joindre la théorie à la pratique; promouvoir l'intégration du groupe; la connaissance de soi; rechercher des solutions d'équipe créative; et, l'expérience des sentiments et des sensations qu'une certaine situation peut causer.
Participation à la construction du plan d'activités - pour répondre aux intérêts des élèves et des enseignants, en s'adaptant au contenu du programme; et la stratégie municipale de promotion et de valorisation de Bussaco.
Education pour la science - promotion de la démocratisation et de l'inclusion dans l'accès à la science et à la technologie.
This proposal has been accepted because:
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