The workshop will take place at La Ricotta Cultural Association. The Association’s purpose is to promote rural areas as a dynamic setting for active living and, in that context, to promote culture and bring it closer to the public, seeking to eliminate cultural barriers that, consciously or unconsciously, impose gender- and social-background-based limitations on both access and interest.
About the venue and the workshop mission: This workshop is a part of a broader project with two primary goals. First, it seeks to organise scientific events in informal settings to foster interaction and collaboration among all participants while removing economic barriers to attendance. Second, it aims to have a meaningful cultural impact on the area where it takes place.
To achieve this first goal, the workshop will accomodate around 20 participants, encouraging interaction among them. The workshop is hosted in a traditional Galician farmhouse, recently refurbished for this purpose, located in the Ribera Sacra -- a stunning natural wine region along the Sil and Mao river canyons. Meals and accommodation will be provided. Participants will be accommodated either in comfortable camping tents, equipped with mattresses and sleeping bags, within the farmhouse grounds, or in rented houses close to the venue. The discussions will take place in a dedicated building on the property, available at any time for the participants.
To achieve the second goal, public events will be held alongside the scientific ones. The venue is managed by a non-profit cultural association and the scientific events will be externally funded, with any surplus being reinvested to organise educational and science popularisation activities aligned with the association's mission: promoting inquiry-based learning for the general public, with a special focus on rural areas.
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