Big Foot Conference Presentations. Big Foot Activities in Gubbio, IT

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Title of the Presentation
Sub-title
Description of the area, Community Consultation
& Intergenerational Experiments
Moira Sannipoli, Gubbio Municipality
VIC
Final Conference Big Foot
4th June 2013
CROSSING GENERATIONS, CROSSING MOUNTAINS
Gubbio Municipality

www.bigfoot-project.eu
-Nature: 525 km2 of mountains areas in
the Alto Chiascio Mountain Community
surrounded by several protected areas,
including the Natura 2000
-Culture and History
-Handicrafts (ceramics, iron made
work)
-Folklore and traditions (Corsa dei Ceri,
The Medieval Crossbow)
- Gastronomy
Gubbio (about 32000 inhabitants)
in the green heart of the green
heart of Italy- Umbria region
Gubbio Municipality features

- Difficult access to the area and isolation
- Depopulation and migration of the younger generation
- Aging of the population (low birth & low mortality rate, and higher
general life expectancy)
- High unemployment rate among women and youngsters and exit
from the labor market of people from 45 years with low education
level due to the financial and economic crisis
- Low level of collaboration among the different actors (high
competition among the actors which lead them from ages to defend
the own relations)
Gubbio Municipality features

Threats Opportunities
-Lack of opportunities of encounter and
dialogue and solidarity among the
generations
-Low recognition of the importance of
Cultural Heritage for the socio-
economic development
-Low interest and consciousness of
Cultural Heritage from the younger
generations
-Valorisation of the Intangible
and tangible cultural Heritage
inserted in a wider conception of
the local community and the
specific competences
-Using the Intergenerational
approach as a tool for new
business opportunities opening /
networking among the existing
ones, exchanging competences
for revitalisation of the Cultural
Heritage
Gubbio and Intergenerational Learning

CCRR- Gubbio
Municipality Youngsters
Council
Community Consultation
Youth
associations
8 classes of
Secondary Schools

ANSPI Madonna del Prato
Centro Sociale S.
Pietro
Community Consultation
Proloco Branca
Elderly University
Association in Semonte

THE YOUNGERS The ELDERLY
The Council of Youngsters (the
CCRR)
7 classes of Secondary Schools
O.Nelli and Secondary School of
Mastro Giorgio -2°G
The youth of the local association
ANSPI Madonna del Prato and
Proloco Branca
Youngsters with mental illness of
the Webradio
The Elderly Center of Gubbio
(Centro Sociale S. Pietro)
University of the Elderly (Università
della Terza età)
The Association of the Christmas
Tree
The Crossbow Association
The elderly participants of the local
association ANSPI of Madonna del
Prato and ProlocoBranca
Immigrant women from Morocco
and Ukraine
all the grandparents of the students
The “Big Foot Society”

Gubbio Interventions:
Intergenerational Cooking Classes
40 elderly as teachers
of 35 young masterchefs

Gubbio Interventions: Discovering the Folklore and
their messengers
Christmas tree tradition
The CrossBow

Gubbio Interventions: Culture and Intangible
Heritage in the dailylife
The cooking was taken as a basis to share the
elderly personal stories and thus the community
traditions and history. This allowed the youngsters
to reflect on the Intangible Heritage
Participants: Elderly University, Local Public Library
and the Secondary Schools M. Giorgio
The story behind each
festivity and traditional
recipe has become and
audio book, read by the
elderly adults and
youngsters with mental
illness

Gubbio Interventions:Cibo e Parole
The elderly taught the youngsters how to cook
sustainably (diminishing the leftovers & re-
using them) and the intergenerational group
together thought of recipes of “recupero”
The students were encouraged to "replicate" it in
their families by interviewing their grandparents,
cooking together and video-documenting it. The
students then watched all the videos in class,
sharing experiences and reflecting on the
importance of their grandparents’ knowledge. They
were then uploaded on Big Foot Project 2013
youtube channel

Gubbio Interventions: The Youngsters in exchange
At the end of each cooking session, the young participants taught
ICT competencies to the “cooks on duty”. The elderly took photos
of their younger learning partners” and learned to upload the
pictures on the computer and post them on Facebook
A course on information and Communication
Technology was organized for the
Students of the "University of the Elderly"

Gubbio Final Product: Digital Guidebook on the
Intangible Heritage
It is unique in Gubbio,
made by the “Big Foot
citizens”. It is the
expression of a
participative process,
of knowledge sharing
among the members,
and of discovering the
value of traditions for
the sustainable
development

 Big Foot offered a clear opportunity to transform the elderly in a
source of economic and social development, giving back a role in the
community (Truffle event and the “Bee Happy avventura Summer
2013” initiative)
 Big Foot increased the interest and consciousness of the Cultural
Heritage from the younger generations and made the community
aware on the importance to guarantee the transmission to the future
generations
 Created occasion for dialogue among generations and created
structured initiatives of sharing of activities, thus the Intergenerational
Learning is now seen in Gubbio as a system not as an informal
experience in a family environment
Main Results

 Thanks to the Big Foot project, it was activated a network among
different associations at local level, that never collaborated together
before. This is a chance for building a strongstrong civil society governancegovernance
 Thanks to the Big Foot project, the Elderly association “open their
doors” to schools and to other association which surely increased the
social cohesion
 The Gubbio Municipality is already planning to replicate it organisaing
Intergenerational Interventions in the Council Flats for Elderly to
maintain them active
Main Results

 Big Foot project increased the involvement of disadvantaged
citizens as the immigrant women and youngsters with mental illness
thus increasing the Community Social Cohesion
 Sustainability Issues were covered: Food waste, Local products and
organic markets, Locally and regionally grown food, reduce the
products with C02, respect for the environment, water consumption
 Sense of belonging to the Community increased after all
participated to the production of the Digital Guidebook of the
Intangible Heritage of Gubbio
Main Results

Participant Feedback
Sheet For each
Interventions session
Cibo and Parole: 6 classes of average 23 students for three
sessions;
Intangible Heritage: 14 students for 4 sessions;
Intergenerational Cooking Classes (CCRR and Centro S.
Pietro): average 13 young students for 7 Sessions;
Cooking session in Branca: 11 young for 2 sessions;
Cooking session in Madonna del Prato: 10 young for 2
sessions;
ICT Course: 7 beneficiaries (Young and Elderly) per 4
sessions
User Self Administered
Questionnaires (SAQ)
Mid term and Final term.
We found some reluctance
from the Elderly to answer
to those questions
Intergenerational Cooking Classes (CCRR and Centro S. Pietro):
average 13 young students Mid and Final
ICT Course: 7 beneficiaries (Young and Elderly) per 4 sessions
Cooking session in Branca: Mid and Final
Cooking session in Madonna del Prato: Mid and Final
Initial Validation Tools

Key Informant Interview
Schedule (Mid and Final)
Video Interview to the Secondary School O. Nelli involved in
“Cibo and Parole”;
Key Informant interview to:
1. Directors of the Schools involved in the experimentation;
2. the CCRR responsible;
3. the president of the Elderly University;
4. the Centro San Pietro director;
5. the president of the Association in Branca and
6. Of Madonna del Prato
7. Comunità Montana Alto Chiascio
8. Web Radio
User Focus Group
Guidelines Mid and Final
Focus group:
Mid Term- Sabrina, Roul from Municipality of Gubbio
Final - Sabrina, Raoul and Moira
Initial Validation Tools

Key Informant Interview
Schedule (Mid and Final)
Video Interview to the Secondary School O. Nelli involved in
“Cibo and Parole”;
Key Informant interview to:
1. Directors of the Schools involved in the experimentation;
2. the CCRR responsible;
3. the president of the Elderly University;
4. the Centro San Pietro director;
5. the president of the Association in Branca and
6. Of Madonna del Prato
7. Comunità Montana Alto Chiascio
8. Web Radio
User Focus Group
Guidelines Mid and Final
Focus group:
Mid Term- Sabrina, Roul from Municipality of Gubbio
Final - Sabrina, Raoul and Moira
Initial Validation Results

Main Findings and feedbacks
Among all the interviewed beneficiaires the overall satisfaction was between good and
very good
At the question “what have you learned they answered”:
- “Learning that once food was not wasted as today”;
- “I learnt how good is to work in team. I learnt that talking to each other is better than
talking on facebook”;
-“The old traditions are disappearing and it is nice to recover them. How my
grandpartents lived and how important is to hear from them”.
-“I have a lot to learn from the youngsters, not only the ICTs, but the desire to live giving
the right importance to the things happening in life.”
Key Informant:
-the responsible of CCRR“In my experience, none of the past projects have had such
success. We will re-propose it after the end of Big Foot”
-- “Big Foot puts allowed the youngsters to look at the elders differently and to approach
their grandpartents and learn from them in an original way”

Exchange of Experiences
with the “Big Foot
Greeks”
Celebrate the Success: Saturday 1 st June
They all asked us to
replicate it as they
really liked it and it
was so much fun!

And have a good
summer..if it will ever start

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