After, the students were divided into different groups of "designers" and "creatives" and togetherthey imaged and proposed a new view of the Pollino Park, using the natural resources of the parkitself. The inititiative attracted the attention and curiosity of young people, who took part in therelated path and in the practical workshop showing their interest, actively interacting with theeducators and expressing their desire to repeat this experience in the future.

The reaction of the smaller students was as interesting and positive as this one, above all during thepractical activities in creating a proper park symbolized by a big paper panel decorated with bothnatural elements (flowers, little trees, paths, stream, ecc.) and little works of art, the whole thingrealized by simple materials (colored thin cardboards, crepe, corks, sticks, ecc.) which are of dailyusage.

The experience was useful to think about the contemporary art, which often is considered farfrom the day-to-day things and difficult to understand, instead it is in close relation with thecontemporaneity, and also to think about how it draws most inspiration from the natural world.

In this way, young people had the chance to look, see and imagine their Park in a contemporaryview, and project a proper park/museum giving free play to their creativity.

During the second stage, which occurred on 5 and 6 of May 2008 with the leading role of theteachers, the education was assigned to an expert of contemporary art, the Doctor Dario Pinton,professor in the Gugghenaim of Venice, who presented an educational project aimed to popularizeand understand contemporary art through a stimulating and innovative approach.

The discussed themes aroused, together with the forms and the languages of the proposed works ofart, teachers' great interest, who experimented with a new method to read and understand art, andconsequently the complex relations among it, the humankind and the nature. The proposal by DarioPinton to the teachers invited to think about how contemporary art is alive in the open and widespaces, where the users wouldn't be "in front of" a picture or a sculture anymore, but "inside" thework of art.

This initiative corresponded to a constructive moment for the teachers, and above all it wasan opportunity to compare the educational experiences and the new incitements created bycontemporary art's world.

From February to June 2009, ArtePollino Association has been partner of the "Cultural TourismExpert in internal areas" Training Course, realized by Apof-Il (Agenzia Provinciale OrientamentoFormazione Istruzione Lavoro), in collaboration with the Associazione Italiana Formatori fromBasilicata.

The course lasted 400 hours, 120 hours of class-work and 280 of internship. During the first stage,the educational programmes were as follows:

After the class-work there was the internship, in which three work groups were created to do aseries of activities:

In continuation of the first educational cycle, which occured in April and May 2008, ArtePollinoassociation promoted a new educational project for the year 2009, studied to be developed both inthe classes and open-air, to start routes for the knowledge about the themes linked to the nature-landscape and environment-artificiality relations. The activities allowed to support the diffusion andpopularization of ArtePollino project.

The first stage was during the 15 and 16 of April, with two afternoon meetings addressed to allthe teachers of the Pollino's territory at all levels; almost 30 teachers of the compulsory educationfrom Senise and Latronico took part in the seminars; in the first meeting, ArtePollino Associationpresented the project in a general way, showing the activites carried out in an year and the ones inprogress (realization of tourist routes, educational laboratories for the students, photo contest and artand recycling creative workshops).

After this presentation, it followed the story told by Katharina Trabert, the project consultant forthe Ministry of Economic Development, who presented the instruments of ArtePollino process: thecultural map, the project's explanatory programme, the relations system, the local planning system,highlighting how worth is an ambitious project as ArtePollino for the local communities and notonly for the cultural growth of the territory, but also for the economical and social one.

The third part was by Laura Barreca, the consulent of the Ministry of National Heritage andCulture, who proposed a brief programme to arouse the teachers' interest to study in depth it andtake part in the ArtePollino's cultural activities.

The discussions were about the main artistic movements, from Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Monet, Manet) to Avant-Garde at the beginningof the twentieth-century until the Fifties, with specific references to some significant artists whomarked the beginning of the first Avant-Garde movements thanks to their works.

Teachers were conducted in a process of knowledge and experimentation with the new artlanguages.

Duing the second meeting, teachers were invited to know the developments of contemporarylanguages, from the Sixties until the last experiences in the twentieth-century, with particularreference to the disuse of traditional art techniques, the procedures in the use of industrial materials,the use of new technologies, the video-art.

The seminar finished with the contribution made by Sandra Traverso from the Arte ContinuaAssociation, who introduced the artists Anish Kapoor, Carsten Holler and Giuseppe Penone, calledto create in the Pollino the works of art which will officially open the project in the next September.To know the works of art made by artists who are popular all around the world and know that theywill be the protagonists of an art event of the Pollino Park aroused great interest by the teachers,because they felt their active role in a process that directly involved them, as responsible for thecultural education of young people.

Together with the three popular artists, also Anni Rapinoja, Nils Udo and Claudia Losi wereintroduced, the protagonists of a particular project about didactics and activation in public spacenamed "local communities project" which will finished in September and it is about specificinitiatives for the citizens; in particular, there was the presentation of the art project by Claudia Losiwho excited great curiosity and aroused interest of the teachers.

On the 6 May 2009, ArtePollino Association organized a meeting between some of the schoolsof the Park and the artist Claudia Losi. The initiative was useful to show her work in detailsto the students and the teachers, to further promote ArtePollino project. The meeting created aproper "memories-collection" which will be put in writing by the children, helped by their teachers,and given to the artist within the end of the academic year.

The final stage of the education was referred to the creative workshops for the students, led by theEducation Department of Castello di Rivoli Contemporary Art Museum. The workshops occurredon the 20 and 21 of May, in the Villa Comunale in Senise and in the Parco delle Terme in Latronicoand there were involved almost 300 students of the compulsory education who tested themselvesin a great collective painting's activity; it was inspired to the nature-landscape and environment-artificiality relations, and it was a new method to push the youngest people toward the worldsof art and creativity, and it provoked to all those present the emotion of a collective, unanimousand shared experience, in a powerful dialogue with natural elements. It followed a moment forthe reflections and the deeper considerations by Anna Pironti, the Department of Education'smanager of Castello di Rivoli, with the participation of teachers, educators and representatives oflocal institutions; those attending were invited to reflect about how worth is the knowledge andthe experimentation with contemporary art expression for the understanding and for the relationbetween the school and the educational worlds and the social context, and about the fact thatArtePollino project would be a chance for the territory to grow culturally and socially at the sametime.