SA LIMBA - Community exchange and co-operation instrument

SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT

a) Contents
The project proposed includes a programme using Sardinian language to disseminate experiences had in communities located in different EU territories and in the Region of origin.
The 1^st phase of the project will consist of a research  collecting what individuals are able to represent. The short stories, narrations and drawings - gathered from the people in charge of the clubs in absolutely neutral conditions - will be  free and spontaneous.
Both the meetings planned after the briefing to the people in charge of the Sardinian Clubs involved and the research will provide the necessary elements to make a serious survey and to gather material.
During the 2^nd project phase, an activity of dissemination and education to the language and to the relationship between groups operating in different countries of the Union will be carried out together with FASI clubs.
Sardinian language, recorded and transcribed narrations, in will be analysed from  a double methodological point of view, i.e.
language analysis
contents analysis
The analysis will be carried out within a work group composed by research experts, language experts and representatives of the Promoter.
The activity will consist of :
•	dissemination of documents to participating community members living in Italy, Europe and in the rest of the world ;  
•	use of traditional and multimedia audio visual systems for the dissemination

b) Goals
The project will include  a research phase and a language education /dissemination  phase, carried out within  and through Italian and European Sardinian clubs, as they represent a privileged meeting and aggregation  point.
The “research - intervention”  methodology used, gives value to Sardinian language , and aims at recuperating the experience of the ones living and working abroad, making inhabitants aware of their values and allowing better integration with other communities.
The content of the research- intervention starts from the theme of “reproducing  the landscape” ( to be intended as environment, nature, men, history) allowing to set narration in the real places and times of the experience, through a work methodology tested by the implementing subject.

c) Workplan
The concept of “Co-operation network” among groups present on the territory, will be realised with the direct involvement  of the Promoter FASI and the operational support and the scientific co-ordination of the implementing subject Consortium U.SA.S.

Foreseen agenda 
Half September 1998 : creation of a work group managed by a Steering Committee composed by a representative of FASI in charge of the management of the project and by a representative of USAS in charge of the co-ordination of the project
second half September 1998 meeting between the researcher in charge of the operational research on Alessandria territory and the Steering Committee for the start up of the works and the planning of the research modalities at Sardinian Community in Alessandria
end September 1998 first transnational meeting in Brussels between the Steering Committee and the representatives of Sardinian Community in Belgium to start co-operation and plan exchange methodologies
half December 1998 1^st  meeting between the researcher operating in Alessandria and the Steering Committee to exchange information gathered at Sardinian Community in Alessandria
half June 1999 second meeting between the researcher operating in Alessandria and the Steering Committee to update on the information gathered at Sardinian Community in Alessandria
fist half September 1999 final seminar in Alessandria between the people in charge  of the Sardinian Community in Alessandria and the Steering Committee to show the results of the research and prepare a report to be presented in Brussels
half September 1999 second transnational meeting in Brussels to present the results supervised by the Steering Committee

d) Results/ Foreseen Products 
The main aspect of the work characterised by the language, is represented by the growing awareness of environmental, historical and cultural patrimony.
Narrate ourselves to the other using (or learning to use) our own language  of origin becomes a very important function allowing to :
organise our interior world
know the exterior world  we interact with
order different information
give meaning to our own and other’s origin 

e) Reason
For some communities  language represents  something precious- the  link to tradition and history.
Such  awareness  is not so common in Italy as the most part of minority languages are spoken by emigrants who left their  country looking for a job.

The protection and valorisation of the  linguistic patrimony requires a cultural intervention involving both local communities  and those living abroad.
The mother language  remains however an indefinite link with the past, unless cultural awareness makes it  alive giving meaning to time and space experience.
Narration is the form  we chose to carry out our initiative as :
•	it is  a form of thought organisation
•	it favours the process of memorisation  and transfer of knowledge
•	it is characterised by social interaction
•	it represents an exercise of cognitive abilities not to be disjointed from the emotional sphere