Azienda agricola La Boa, Belfiore di Pramaggiore, Venezia

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Strawbale Building Training
The Strawbale Building Training Group was set up from the ESBG (European Strawbale Building Gathering) held in August 2007 in Germany. We held our first meeting in December 2007 in Italy. We aim to create a high quality training course in strawbale building with a core of trainers across Europe and where different modules can be taken in one or more countries. We hope to have this training available by 2009.

The development group is:

Stefano Soldati	Italy	Trainer and Designer	La Boa Permaculture Centre
Isabelle Hody	France	Trainer and Architect	Rep of RFCP French network
Remi Velluet	France	Net administrator	Les Compaillons
Zuzana Kierulfova	Slovakia	Trainer and Architect	Rep of ArTUR (NGO)
Boris Hochel	Slovakia	Architect	Rep of Hoblina t.c.(NGO)
Burkard Rueger	Germany	Trainer and Engineer	Rep of FASBA e.V. (NGO)
Olaf Eggers	Germany	Architect	Rep of FASBA e.V. (NGO)
Bee Rowan	UK	Trainer and Designer	Amazonails – social enterprise
Barbara Jones	UK	Trainer and Designer	Amazonails – social enterprise

Our objectives are :
1 to promote good practice in strawbale and sustainable building
2 to develop a Europe wide training programme in strawbale building
3 to disseminate the training programme widely
4 to train trainers to deliver the training programme

And our programme is:
1. To share knowledge, experience and information and to make the training widely available
2. To use external expertise when needed, eg fundraising, building methods, translation
3. To develop a curriculum and associated learning resources: handouts, information sheets, literature, library of photographs, cds, website and on-line learning resources
4. To translate the final training materials
5. To train a core group of trainers
6. To work towards certification of the modules of the training

We are looking for fundraisers to work with us, people with professional skills who know where to apply for funding and are successful in writing applications. If you can help, please get in touch.

We also welcome donations to help us in this work. Please send cheques made out to amazonails (on the back of the cheque please write ‘european training’) and send to either
Barbara Jones or Bee Rowan, amazonails, Hope Mill, Crescent Street, Todmorden,
5HA. Contact: bee@amazonails.org.uk or Barbara@amazonails.org.uk

In Italy you can put money on C/C postale n. 54859756 to Stefano Soldati writing: "donazione per SBT" .

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