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understand and compare traditional farming based on local management of water andmodels implemented by agricultural development projects based in new irrigationschemes. In the afternoon of day 3 students presented the results of their fieldwork.The following day was organised as a plenary session giving students the possibilityof comparing their points of view (resulting form fieldwork) with two keynote lecturesdone by Egyptian experts on: water issues in the New Valley, agricultural issues inthe New Valley. The debate was interesting and very rich with important contributionsand exchanges of experience among experts and students. This first step wasconcluded with a plenary session and a keynote lecture done by the coordinator ofthe seminar (P. Faggi) on water in irrigation: changing patterns.The following day was devoted to rest and it was a good opportunity to gainknowledge of the wide landscape around the project. During day 6 of the seminarstudents worked on the ‘Pattern of Territorial Development’ (through groupwork)each of the groups analysed a different issue with visits and interviews: these includedthe tourist sector, commerce sector, public utilities sector and local government. Thefollowing day students prepared the presentation for the plenary and final sessionof the seminar and issued the report. Thus, in just a few days students were able topractice the knowledge of the first two years of their degree and to enter in a newplace and to develop their skills to identify actors, on going development processesand to design ways to increase abilities of local actors to deal with developmentperspectives. It was also a good opportunity to deal with some critical issues: therole of insiders and outsiders, development and dynamics local-global, transfer oftechnology and development models.Citizenship, Territory and Power in Salvador de Bahia (Brazil)The University of Padova has many cooperation agreement with African and LatinAmerican Universities for student and teaching staff mobility and joint studyprograms. In March 2004 (8 th −24 th ) in the framework of the agreement between theUniversity of Padova and the Universidade Estadual da Bahia a program of thematicseminars about “Citizenship, Territory and Power” was developed at Salvador deBahia with the collaboration of the Departamento de Educaçao Campus 1 e Núcleode Estudos Italianos da UNEB (NESTI) .The seminars involved about 100 students, mainly women, studying for a degreein Pedagogy working in community schools (curso de Licenciatura em Pedagogiacom abilitação em series iniciais do ensino fundamental). Community schools arenormally primary schools provided by non-profit organizations and communitybased organizations to answer educational needs of local poor communities in manyarea of Salvador’s suburbs. The experience of alternative education and communityschools are typical examples of citizens’ organization in Latin America (Freire,1973; 1986).Seminars were organised by considering the needs of the student-workers, theyare working during the day in the community schools so the theoretical parts of theseminars were set up for the night session and the fieldwork was integrated withdaily work in the school. The seminars were based on a participatory approach and317