Shaping Fair Cities

SDG 11 - Sustainable cities and communities

SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

The GREEN IS THE COLOR project aspires to make our communities more sustainable and safer, both in terms of civil coexistence both environmentally. To do this, it starts from some concerns and needs, which were found among people who populate the territory of the plain around Bologna, such as environment, viability, sustainability, integration and safety, and it does so by deploying important resources: the richness of local associations on the one hand, and the existence of policies and projects that already exist, while they "only" need, for their fullness implementation, an adequate communication. The project promotes a wide involvement of citizens and reserves a particular attention to women, both Italian and foreigner, to the central role for the sustainability and safety of communities: women in general as bearers of good practices, and women foreigners, in particular, as mediators between home communities and arrival ones.

Fundamental will be the collaboration with the partners involved and, above all, with the Metropolitan City of Bologna, which starting from actions foreseen in the Metropolitan Agenda for Sustainable Development (July 2019) supports the Union in its activities at the center of the present project; ‘Sustenia’, which offers its skills on resilience and sustainability; ‘Anci’, a co-proposer institution, with whom the Union normally collaborates on the issues of environmental sustainability and energy transition; the Villa Smeraldi Institution, which hosts the central event of the project, etc.

The planned actions, in an ideal path from autumn to spring include:

PILLS – screenings of short informational and practical videos;
MEETINGS - screenings, guided visits and special focuses for different targets (students, associations, sport professionals and amateurs, farmers, companies);
MARATHON - along the Union's pedestrian and cycle paths, runners and cyclists will converge at Villa Smeraldi in Bentivoglio, where the Museum of Rural Life is and where the physical marathon will be followed by readings and testimonies from women and migrants;
GADGET - distributed during all initiatives.

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