What is CITYGREENERS ?

Citygreeners is a transnational youth initiative between young people from France, Italy and Greece that aims to develop environmental awareness in the cities of Marseille in France, Kalamata in Greece and Anzio in Italy through "guerrilla gardening" activities.

The aim is to spread a message around us: nature has its place in urban environment and can help people to reconnect with themselves and the others. 

All 3 groups are going to realise workshops in their city where the participants will learn a lot about plants, the environment, sustainable development and gardening techniques. Moreover the idea is also to let the participants think about places in their neighbourhood that in their opinion could use a spark of green. With the creativity of the group these places will then be « filled with nature » by using guerrilla gardening techniques.

Then, in April 2014 there will be a one-week exchange phase in Marseille where the three groups will meet up and act together. Therefore the big group is going to use the gardening techniques that they learned so far with the goal to make the city of Marseille a little greener in a creative and original way.

The objective of these activities is also to get the public’s attention in order to make them think about how it is important to include the nature in a city.

Furthermore it is intended to organise of a public event and a photo exhibit at the end of the exchange in order to show the results and experiences of the project.

The project is funded by the European Union through the Youth in action programme.

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