The Life Beware buying group has been set up with the aim of reducing the price of water resilience measures in the household.
More than 50 participants from various realities of the territory, from local administrations to members of the academic staff, actively took part in the online event “The AltoVicentino Mayors Adapt Strategy” organised within the framework of the LIFE Beware project.
Inauguration of Lake Giavenale in the presence of the authorities, Giustino Mezzalira, Director of the Sezione Ricerca e Gestioni Agro-Forestali di VenetoAgricoltura, Silvio Parise, President of the Consorzio Alta Pianura Veneta, and representatives of other partner projects.
The great theme investigated by the author is climate change, which is presented through photography and that has already been able to attract many people and move the thoughts of visitors.
The images express the power of nature and its adverse events and the links that bind them to man, who is both the cause and the victim. However, the shots also show the attempts that have been carried out to solve the serious problem of the impact of climate change.
The festival focused on the need to collectively develop effective resilience strategies to the increasingly devastating consequences of the epochal climate change that the world is witnessing, with the involvement of local communities, using a variety of methods and forms of expression.
One of the Rain Gardens of Santorso municipality, an innovative bioretention system for rainwater management realized by the LIFE BEWARE Project, is located in Piazza Libertà.
Climate change and flood risk: the LIFE BEWARE project, co-funded by the LIFE Programme of the European Union, is implementing an innovative prevention strategy adopting hydraulic risk mitigation measures in the Altovicentino area, in the Veneto Region (Italy).
The LIFE BEWARE Project has become a case study of the Master Program “Governance of local development networks” at the University of Padua, intended to form the experts of territorial growth processes who, starting this year, should come in close contact with the most innovative responses geared to prevent the hydro-geologic risks and increase the resilience of the territory, such as the interventions implemented in Santorso, Marano Vicentino and Giavenale of Schio.
Is dealing with water in agriculture as easy as drinking a glass of water? Unfortunately, it is not! For this reason, Veneto Agricoltura, LIFE BEWARE project, the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (TESAF) of Padua University and the Brenta Land Reclamation Consortium organized a series of meeting with the Italian Agricultural Associations to open a dialogue and focus on the subject.
On Friday 29th of May, it took place the first edition of the “Kids University BEWARE” which involved young students and teachers from the primary and secondary schools of Santorso and Marano Vicentino who had the opportunity to join an innovative online campus on water, environment and climate change.
The partners of the LIFE project BEWARE are relaunching a new edition of the School of Common Goods.
The main objective of the LIFE project “BEWARE” is to implement a strategy for adaptation to climate change and flood risk in urban and rural areas, through the active involvement of local communities.
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The last public meeting of the first cycle of events promoted by the LIFE project “BEWARE”, led by the Municipality of Santorso.
During the meeting “The way the wind is blowing: the case of cyclone Vaia” experts will provide in-depth information about the case of the cyclone which hit Northern Italy (Triveneto) in October 2018.
The first cycle of events – realized in the framework of the LIFE project “BEWARE – BEtter Water-management for Advancing Resilient-communities in Europe” continues with an appointment dedicated to high schools: entitled Anthropocene and human wounds on our planet: is a cure still possible or are we at a dead end? will be performed at the Pasubio Cinema (Schio).
Nine years after the flood that hit Vicenza in autumn 2010, the partners of the LIFE project “BEWARE” are proposing a debate on how the emergency has been addressed, what have been the critical issues tackled and the initiatives that have been undertaken so far.
A new BEWARE event entitled “Weather Emergency in Marano: Problem for all, which are the possible solutions?” will take place in Marano Vicentino Auditorium.
The LIFE project “BEWARE” takes us on a walk through the industrial area between Schio and Santorso, to stimulate a critical reflection about urban cementation, thanks to the collaboration of Vaghe Stelle, a territorial research project.
The cycle of meetings promoted by the LIFE project “BEWARE” continues, with a new appointment in GB Cipani secondary school (Santorso). Lucia Bortolini and Paolo Semenzato, professors from Padua University, will present the different systems for guaranteeing a sustainable management of rainwater in an urban environment. Furthermore, the artist Lorenza Zambon from “Teatro Natura”
The first cycle of meetings promoted by the LIFE project “BEWARE” continues with an appointment with the meteorologist Marco Rabito in the municipality of Marano Vicentino entitled “The climate that is changing us: the consequences of a sick planet on our territory” .