The overall objective that the project intends to pursue is to improve the offer of essential services to the population, aimed primarily at young people of school age, to share with the school some educational tasks on the themes of land management, the understanding of the social dynamics and the creative experience and to encourage the rediscovery of the values of the agricultural world and its productions and more specifically of the local traditions, through the knowledge of the ancient art related to the Fòcara’s of Novoli building.
Others recipients of the project activities are other population groups such as disadvantaged people or the existing Fòcara’s builders to which will be provided information services to operate safely and in compliance with the regulations, in order to make them aware in the performance of Fòcara’s construction activities. For the execution of the overall objective, the project includes the following specific objectives:
- Develop and disseminate the knowledge, the traditions and the consciousness related to the historicity of th Fòcara event, symbol of active protection of the landscape and good fire of Puglia, a messenger of peace and human rights in the world, lighthouse of slow and religious tourism off-season in Puglia, with its values of cultural and natural attractor of transversal tourism, testimonial of cultural resources and structural materials of an area of quality;
- Increasing the level of involvement and active participation of schoolchildren and of citizens in general also in order to create some future job opportunities and of local development;
- Involve operators in a process of sharing and implementation of innovative actions for the renewal and relaunch of the ancient tradition of the Feast of St. Anthony Abbot and of the "Fòcara", Heritage of the intangible culture of the City of Novoli.