1. GRUNDTVIG PROJECT
FLOWERS UNIT EUROPE (FUE)
GRUNDTVIG
PARTNERSHIPS

2. ACLI Campi Flegrei (Naples – Italy)
May – June 2010
GRUNDTVIG PROJECT
FLOWERS UNIT EUROPE (FUE)
Project number: 2009-1-PL1-GRU06-0511
The photographs shown in this presentation were taken by Leonid Smulsky, Sebastià Guillem and
Alfonso Marotta.

3. Aims of the visit:
 Evaluation session about the first year of collaboration.
 Preparation of progress report for the National Agency.
 Power point presentations about the activities done
during the first year of collaboration.
 To acquire and improve knowledge about the
Mediterranean Flora and naturalistic heritage of the
Flegrei Fields and other areas of Campania region.
 To make partners aware of internal and external
resources of ACLI association both in human terms
and as regards its professional competencies.

4. Aims of the visit:
 To Involve partners in taking part into events
organized with the involvement of local people and
ACLI association members (learners and staff ) in
order to communicate our idea and disposition
toward friends and strengthen the human relation
among the Italian team, local community and
Partners.
 To acquire knowledge about the main features of the
Flegrei Fields territory with reference to its Flora,
geological and archaeological aspect.

5. Activities
 Evaluation session
 Preparation of progress report
 Study visits
 Mortella Garden on the island of Ischia
 Botanical garden of Napoli
 Palace and garden of Caserta
 Exchange of material collected during the different
visits and specially in Naples for pedagogical purpose
and didactic use
 Visit to the ACLI association

6. Activities: evaluation session
 The project meeting was mainly devoted to evaluate the
results, impact and dissemination of the project after the
first year of collaboration. During the evaluation sessions
each delegation was asked to synthesize the result of their
work and focus on the project achievement and its impact
on staff and learners.
 All the coordinators expressed satisfaction, especially about
the quality and degree of learners and staff participation
and involvement into the project. All activities have been
successfully realized and additional activities have been
realized too such as the website and logo of the project
which Italy was responsible for.

7. Activities: preparation of progress
report
 All the delegation members discussed about the final
report for the National Agency, focusing especially on
the aims, activities and final products. All delegates
equally contributed to the realization of the progress
report. The result was a common final draft.

8. Evaluation session and preparation
of progress report

9. Evaluation session and preparation
of progress report

10. Evaluation session and preparation
of progress report

11. Activities: study visits
Mortella Garden on the island of Ischia
 The guided study visit at the charming tropical garden of
Mortella on the island of Ischia (with its more than three
hundred plants ) was an opportunity for each participant to enjoy
the scents and colours of the flora and enrich the knowledge
about exotic plants, Mediterranean flora, aquatic plants and
orchids. The group was particularly fascinated by the water lily
area named Victoria house.
 Everything about the extraordinary blooming of these plants was
explained to the group by the guide and an expert botanist.
 The garden is also an example of a perfect landscape architecture.

12. Mortella Garden
on the island of Ischia

13. Mortella Garden
on the island of Ischia
Different moments of the guided study visit
to Mortella Garden

14. Activities: study visits
Botanical garden of Napoli
 At the Orto Botanico (Botanical Garden of Naples), one of
the great botanical gardens of Italy for the consistency of its
collections and extension, the partners explored (guided by
an expert botanist guide) several areas: desert area, citrus
orchard, arboretum, Pynophyta areas, fernery, Mediterranean
bush, palm grove carnivorous plants, etc.
 Particularly interesting was the observing of epiphytes plants
living on other form of vegetation but autonomous as far as
nutrition is concerned. They get water and minerals thanks
to particular hairs they have on the surface of their leaves.
These plants are especially widespread in the rainforest.

15. Orto Botanico
Botanical garden of Napoli

16. Orto Botanico
Botanical garden of Napoli

17. Activities: study visits
Palace and garden of Caserta
 The visit at the palace of Caserta, listed as a world heritage
site by UNESCO, was organized in order to give the
participants the idea of the two main European styles in
gardening: the Italian style and the English one. During the
visit a documentary film was shot in the English garden.
The intention was to use it as didactic material.
 All the study visits were joined by a group of learners and
young people at risk of social exclusion.

18. Palace and garden of Caserta

19. Palace and garden of Caserta

20. Exchange of material
 One of the important activities in each meeting is the
exchange of material collected by de different delegations
during the visits for pedagogical purpose and didactic use.
 Some power point presentations activities were shown
such as “The spring flowers” and a video documentary film
about the visit in Mosset, where the members participants
took part to different seminars and workshops, one of
them devoted to the creation of flower compositions
created by each member participating in France. The
videos and power point presentations were realized by the
Spanish team with the support of all material provided by
each delegation.

21. Activities: visit to the ACLI
association
 The visit at the ACLI Association in Naples aimed at giving
partners wider and better information about the kinds of
activities sustained and developed by the Association at
international, national, regional and local level.
 The partners were also informed about the ideology,
believes and aims standing beyond the several projects and
activities carried out by ACLI. Each of them, though in its
specific field and target to specific people, is pushed
essentially by a common and shared policy based on
spreading active citizenship and democracy.

22. Activities: visit to the ACLI
association
 During the visit ,with the support of an overhead projector
connected to Internet, the partners were also given further
instructions about the best use of the website “Flowers
unit Europe”. They were explained how the home page and
links work and how to insert and add new writing reports.
 In addition we discussed about the importance of using
the forum section which will be used by learners and staff
starting from the next year.

23. Visit to the ACLI association
Webmaster Alfonso Marotta explaining the
secrets of the FUE project web site

24. Visit to the ACLI association

25. Activities: visit to the ACLI
association
 The ACLI members, learners and staff, with the
support of local people, other no profit associations of
the area and local authorities such as the Major of
Monte di Procida, Dott. Francesco Paolo Iannuzzi,
organized a big traditional Neapolitan feast that was
celebrated in the conference room of the comune in
Monte di Procida. Partners together with local people
enjoyed Neapolitan songs and traditional food
breathing a friendly atmosphere.

26. Activities: visit to the ACLI
association
 Here a lot of final hand made
final products on the themes of
flowers were displayed:
needlework on cloth of any kind,
pictures created through
embroidery technique, pottery,
floral arrangement and
decorations made of chocolate and
sugar. The feast was celebrated in
the conference room of the
comune in Monte di Procida.

27. Activities: visit to the ACLI
association
Floral decoration made of chocolate and sugar

28. Activities: visit to the ACLI
association

29. Final results
 Progress report.
 Strengthening of the intercultural dialogue among
members and staff of different countries.
 Acquiring and enriching the knowledge about flora in
the Mediterranean area and specifically in the
Phlegrean Fields.
 Getting knowledge about some plants reproduction
and characteristics in blooming.
 Collecting material for didactic use.
 Documentary film about the English garden at the
palace of Caserta.

30. Final results
 Increase the prestige of the association in the
community and the international arena by embracing
European dimension in its curriculum.
 Enhancing learners and staff awareness of their own
culture and their ability to pass this on collaborating
countries.
 Increase motivation to study foreign languages among
partners and staff of the adults institutions involved.
 Increase and refine the disposition of members and
learners towards the beauty of nature, giving start to a
process of positive attitude towards environment and
its safeguard.
 Getting to know some aspects of Neapolitan culture
and tradition.

31. End of
presentation
May-June 2010