\nRaquel Tavares<\/strong>: This took place following the founding of the \u2018Slow Portugal\u2019 NGO with the objective of filling a gap that had not been taken up in the national panorama accompanying a rising and deepening international trend. A slow movement style organisation makes every sense to the extent this defends life styles based on simplicity, sustainability, solidarity and quality \u2013 factors so very relevant to current times.<\/p>\n
What characterises this movement in comparison with the original Slow Food initiative?<\/strong> How is the slow movement structured in Portugal?<\/strong> What establishments or companies are associated with you?<\/strong> Plans for the future?<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Further Information:
\nThe \u2018Slow Movement\u2019 is an international movement that traces its origins to the \u2018Slow Food Movement\u2019 that in Italy in 1986 stood up against the values and culture associated with mass and impersonal fast food before then also specialising in the slow city concept and seal of quality.
\nThis trend has then steadily spread throughout Europe and the world as well as into other areas of action: health, children and education, tourism, the preservation of heritage and traditions, relationships, the balance between personal and professional lives, leisure, family life, etc. (Slow Travel, Schools, Cities, Family Living, Medicine, Slow Design, etc.). The Slow Movement defends efforts to live at a particular pace, prioritising quality, balance and wellbeing in the different areas of life and always within a logic of sustainable development in harmony with the dynamics of local communities and in conjunction with the globalisation movement that we today experience.
\nHence, the \u2018Slow Movement\u2019 stands out from its slow food counterpart as the latter has its focus uniquely and exclusively on diet related issues. In turn, the \u2018Slow Movement\u2019 is more holistic and transversal and relates to the utilisation of time and material resources in a more balanced, moderate and satisfied fashion, premises that may be adopted in different areas of life and not only in terms of the food chain.<\/p>\n
\nThe \u2018Slow Movement\u2019 followers do not fit a single profile but rather identify with the principles and the general idea that it is necessary to slow down and give more value to the essential and only in a society that is not excessively speedy and fast are we able to attain such depth whether in the world of work, personal relationships, consumption patterns or in the way we live in our territories and communities. As such, the slow movement has grown spontaneously and without any great formalisms or structures. However, there began to emerge ever more initiative that sought to organise the movement into a more structured fashion. In Portugal, the pioneering and also the only entity, – with the exception of slow cities \u2013 is the NGO \u2018Slow Portugal\u2019.<\/p>\n
\nWe are getting frequent and countless contacts with various entities seeking to establish partnerships, whether local councils, tourism companies, artisan and regional products and restaurants. However, we have not yet expanded our scope of action to be able to welcome everybody who gets in contact with us. We are beginning small and growing step by step. At this moment, we have a protocol with the council of Arruda dos Vinhos where we have our headquarters and we have an associate agreement with the restaurant \u2018Nau Palatina\u2019 and the tourism residence unit \u2018Casa Carpe Diem\u2019 and negotiating a partnership with the \u2018Mercearia do Prato\u2019 restaurant.
\nOne of our objective is launching the \u2018Slow Movement\u2019 seal of quality that would be unprecedented both nationally and internationally and correspondingly holds great potential for development. We are now in a new phase of revitalisation and boosting our range of activities and planning to establish the means to expand our network welcoming all of those who contacts us and giving them the means to take part and collaborate with the movement.<\/p>\n
\nDeveloping a diverse series of workshops, demonstrations and ateliers in accordance with the slow theme; expanding our network of partnerships and associate members; promoting the movement online and on social networks; running more slow activities, meetings and debates. Furthermore, getting official recognition for the \u2018Slow Movement\u2019 seal of quality would be an unprecedented contribution to the slow movement.<\/p>\n![\"sergio](\"http:\/\/eco123.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sergio-aires-150x150.jpg\")
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Aged 44, with a background in Social Anthropology and Educational Psychology. Her professional career has been in education and lifelong learning and social intervention projects in disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Lisbon. She also has many years of experience participating in associative movements and voluntary\u00a0 work. Her personal passions including reading, family and social life, photography, handicraft, education and personal and social development, travelling, good conversation and relaxation, as well as enjoying the simple things in life.
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