The aim of the project was to : - identify the skills (human, technical, political and digital) that needed to be developed by these referent volunteers - propose training and educational tools to help them acquire these skills - identify and mobilize a network of ‘point of contact’ volunteers, spread across the regions and effective relays for mobilization at European level.
Terre-en-vue (ngo - Belgium, founded in 2011 - here TEV) and Terre de Liens (ngo law 1901 - France, founded in 2003 - here TDL) are two citizens' organizations set up to protect food-producing land, support (future) farmers in their search for land and thus accelerate the agro-ecological transition. Our two organizations have made the education and mobilization of citizens the cornerstone of their action. With this project, our two organizations wanted to structure and professionalize the reception of citizens who are working to protect and make good use of agricultural land, through exchanges of practices, the construction of spaces for commitment within our structures, the creation of a commitment pathway and the constitution of a network of ‘point of contact’ volunteers, spread across the territory and capable of mastering the issues linked to agricultural land and mobilizing other volunteers around these issues. The project has enabled us to address the issue of civic engagement and volunteering, to identify the key issues and to set up spaces and training to better welcome and equip volunteers in our organizations.