Annual Report 2011 - Fai

FAI - Giardino della Kolymbetra, Valley of the Temples (Agrigento)
Educare e sensibilizzare
Grandi progetti
2. Educating and raising awareness
School
EDUCATING SCHOOL CHILDREN TO OUR VALUES
Educating and raising the awareness of the public on understanding, respecting and taking care
of art and nature must necessarily start with younger generations.
For this reason, our Schools Education Department is constantly engaged on training
and raising the awareness of teachers and pupils of all ages on how to defend the
Italian landscape. In 2011, we renewed the three-year memorandum of understanding
with the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and we signed an
agreement with the National Headmasters’ Association. To allow children to discover
more about history, art, traditions and the lifestyles of the past, we organised school trips
to 19 properties and we developed special visitor experiences with entertainers in costume,
observation-and-discovery sheets and creative workshops for the three new properties opened
in 2011. To increase the flow of school children, we also established start-of-year trips and
end-of-year parties. Despite the major crisis in school tourism, we managed to maintain the
number of students visiting thanks to the implementation of agreements with tour operators,
and we have started once again to hold the volunteer-run summer camps geared towards
safeguarding the Caretta Caretta loggerhead sea turtle along the Ionian coast of Calabria.
A total of
49,165 students
participated in
school visits to
19 properties in all,
and 40,000 were
involved in the two
national projects:
“Io Museo, e tu”
(I visit museums,
what about
you) and the
second “Torneo
del paesaggio”
(Countryside
Tournament).
SCHOOL-STUDENT
MEMBERS OF FAI
OVER RECENT YEARS
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Following the successful conclusion of the 2010-11 national projects, entitled “Fratelli d’Italia”
(Brothers and Sisters of Italy) and “Torneo del paesaggio” (Countryside Tournament), in
the autumn we launched two new projects that involved around 40,000 school students:
“Io Museo, e tu” (I visit museums, what about you) and the second “Torneo
del paesaggio”, a culture-based contest focusing on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural
Heritage. Primary and middle schools in Lombardy, Emilia Romagna, Molise and Sardinia got
involved in the environmental education project called “Viva la Terra! Fai anche tu: fai
la differenza” (Long Live Planet Earth! Do your bit to make the difference).
In addition, in partnership with the Italian Ministry of the Environment, we launched an
environmental education project aimed at nursery school children, entitled “R come Ricerco,
Rifletto, Riduco, Riciclo e…guarda come mi diverto!” (R as in “I Research, I Reflect, I
Reduce, I Recycle”...and look how much fun it is!). To all of the 45,000+ school
students who are FAI members we sent out the School Membership kit, containing the two
most recent issues of “I Quaderni FAI Scuola” (The FAI School Notebooks), which
deal with exploring the local area, and the “Art Stories” CDs, which concentrate on the theme
of water in art. The www.faiscuola.it site received more than one million hits.
45,225
46,176
38,600
34,450
24,025
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