"The European project ""Campo dei Miracoli"", concived to promote innovative ortotherapeutical practices and other related activities in European historical gardens for people with Down's Syndrome and other physical, intellectual and relational disabilities and able-bodied persons, with respect of gender equality, inclusion, creative and interdisciplinary education. The project was conceived in spring 2016, during the first edition of Trisome Games in Florence. The project has been successfully finished, with the goal achieved to improve the quality of life and the social and professional inclusion of people with disabilities between the ages of 18 and 50 and their families, promoting activities, carried out mainly within important European historical gardens, in order to encourage innovative teaching practices and experiment with new forms of museum teaching. In this way, contributing to the enhancement of cultural, historical, artistic and environmental heritage in partner's countries, the project has obtained in 2018 the important recognition of the Italian Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo (MIBACT) on the occasion of the European Year of Cultural Heritage. Achieving these important results has been made possible by the close collaboration of all Project partners. With consolidated experience in the different key areas of the project, each of them has fostered a fruitful exchange of ideas and good practices. The main thread of the entire project was the fairy tale of the world's most famous puppet, Pinocchio, who, with its metamorphosis, accompanied the participants in a real process of inclusion and personal growth, through the significant naming of outputs and workshops. All project partners have promoted activities in their territorial contexts focused on horticultualtherapy: educational meetings, experiential visits, educational courses and workshops that, thanks to the collaboration with important public and private institutions and experienced professionals in the sector, have allowed people with disabilities, with able-bodied students, in fostering a process of learning new botanical and agronomic skills and development of the five senses and their relational skills, thanks to the contact with nature and plants. The close comparison and collaboration between the partner countries has been essential even for the structuring of a course, perfectly transferable in other territorial contexts, aimed at training specialized operators in the field of horticultualtherapy who accompanied the project participants in carrying out activities such as the project and maintenance of therapeutic gardens, with a particular interest in the preservation and enhancement of the rich botanical heritage of gardens and orchards present in many historical gardens. The activities promoted in the three partner's countries have also allowed to develop other activities, such as journalistic writing workshops and artisanal workshops in jewellery or creative reuse of scraps from textile processing - which, always starting from the botanical theme, has involved the participants in further activities, made possible thanks to the synergies and collaborations activated during the two-year project that, as a tangible product of what has been carried out, have ended with the realization of particular ""golden ticks"" that, recalling the fairy tale of Pinocchio, emphasize the concreteness that characterized the whole project. An international scientific committee, made up of doctors, psychologists and members from each project partner, monitored all the activities and the beneficial effects found on the participants that, at the end of each activities, have received a certificate to certify the new skills acquired. Each project activity and mobility and its results have been made transferable through a specifically implemented site and an online sharing and e-learning platform. The videos, made specifically by professionals in the sector and disseminated through the main social media to promote project's results, are very relevant to show the activities and mobility carried out by the participants in Campo dei Miracoli Project and in the visual realization of the philosophy of the Project, represented by the metamorphosis of Pinocchio from puppet to child:https://www.campodeimiracoli.eu/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkxA3Zy2BZo&fbclid=IwAR087q2hrrSRLKwa-CjCumwmJoQgV5YCmrnnhUDxjjN7bNxRTIGWbnVnF94"

The Partners, agreeing that Culture, Relation and Motivation are important elements to foster a social integration at European level, want to contribute, through the innovative project “Oltre il Giardino – Social Inclusion Observatory”, with an active and aware participation, to improve life quality level of a target of people with social exclusion and less qualified skills.Thanks to the creation of special activities aimed to acquisition of self-awareness, the fruition of the cultural heritage and environmental protection and care, keeping in mind beauty and origin of European historical gardens, the Project wants to valorise, promote and concretize a process of social inclusion. This process could be productive, even at work, in overcoming the discomfort with and through the fundamental combination of preventive and continuous activities for monitoring the status of the disease, also to develop skills and practical-digital ability of the target identified, keeping in mind gender equality and with the involvement of local/international institutions creating an effective network of exchange of good practices between the Partner countries belonging to the lower Mediterranean basin (Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal).The project consists of an innovative biennial path in Europe addressed to women, young adult, migrants with social problems and school dropouts between the ages of 18 and 65 and over 65 and divided into theoretical-practical thematic modules/formats that provide:- definition of a questionnaire to be administered to an identified qualitative focus group;- creation of a multilingual European platform to interview people profiled by the project, with a view to increasing participation through strategies that increase awareness;- pilot training course for the management and maintenance of historical parks and gardens in an eco-friendly environment, intended for the target focus identified by the project and for people over 65, with production of documentation relating to “best practices”, with a view to social and participative inclusion, respecting gender equality, through effective orientation and motivation to develop and/or improve practical-manual skills and abilities;- visits to historical parks and gardens. Recent studies have confirmed the importance of acquiring tools aimed at knowledge meaning of environmental care for people with social difficulties and marginalized people. In this regard, among the project purposes, an interesting aspect is aimed at making the historical garden accessible and easily usable for the orientation of aware staff, prepared for its maintenance and for carrying out the activities, promoting the opportunity for orientation of multipurpose figures who, at the same time, will participate in practical upkeep of a historical garden, interacting with it and, at the same time, acquiring skills also at an organizational/managerial level;- creation of manuals and guidelines aimed at transferring the project results to other similar realities and contexts;- statistical and social research that collects the data emerging from the project experimentation.The project is based on close collaboration and interdisciplinarity between the four European partner countries: Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy.The results expected from the project include the identification of common guidelines within the framework of reproducible and versatile best practices, including several realities, through the various activities proposed at national and international level. These results will be widely disseminated through a specially designed multilingual European platform; an app with content similar to the platform, for maximum dissemination and awareness; a manual with guidelines emerging from project experimentation and scientific research between partners with different European reference standards; the different online and offline media, to make that standards public, recognizable and replicable on a European scale.The impacts will be diversified on the basis of various activities proposed and all meetings and events are going to be open to the public and promoted through online and offline circuits.The expected results aim at a positive and concrete confirmation of the new theoretical and practical skills reached by the participants in the Project knowledge, increasing and consolidating target group’s self esteem, locally, regionally, European and internationally.