The trainees live in a campus, placed in the mediterranean shrub inside the Ittica Valdagri, built especially for the FAO Training course.
The campus (fig.2) covers a surface of about 5 000 m2, and includes:
- 6 prefabricated houses, with all comforts. Their measures are 2.91 × 12.27 m × h 2.39 m., divided in two compartements, with two separate entries. Each compartment is composed of two rooms and a bath room (fig.3). The rooms contain a bed, a cupboard, a table, a chair and heater. The bath room is fitted out with a shower.
- a canteen of 50 m2, that can be used also as lounge; a kitchen and a table-tennis room. The canteen has the following time table:
| - breakfast | 8.00 – 8.30 a.m. |
| - lunch | 12.30 – 1.30 p.m. |
| - dinner | 6.30 – 7.30 p.m. |
Meals are prepared by a group of cooks, and in accordance to the different alimentary needs of the students, in respect of age, nationally and religion.
- a prefabricated is unit used as store-room and equipped with a washing machine.
- a parking area for the trainees' bicycles
Personal equipment, given to the trainees at their arrival, includes:
| - stationery | ||
| - fishing equipment | : | 1 pair of long boots |
| 1 pair of short boots | ||
| 1 rainproof suit | ||
| - clothes | : | 1 sport suit |
| 1 pair of sport shoes | ||
| 2 pair of worsted socks | ||
| 1 pair of wollen tights | ||
| 1 wollen jumper | ||
| 1 wollen hat | ||
Each trainee has a bicycle that permits to go as-he-pleases around the farm. The use of the bicycle outside the farm is not allowed, unless if authorised. The bicycles belong to the FAO Centre.
- class-room for 24 students, equipped with blackboard, slide projector and screen, overhead projector.
- library equipped with photocopying, machine, type-writer, collection of F.A.O. papers and books on aquaculture and small scale fisheries, desks and tables for 8 students to read and study.
- laboratory equipped with one compound microscope and one Stereoscope, pH meter, salinometer, oxymeter, dissection tools, various material for analyses (glass and plastic vials and containers, basic chemical equipment, photography equipment) and for phyto and zooplankton production.
- for field activities, the Centre has a collection of fishing gear and equipment for the produce selection (nets for market size fish, for fry, for plankton etc..).
For trips outside the plant, the Centre has rented a small 9 seats bus, pending the delivery of its own vehicles.
Timetable Centre - Policoro - Centre:
| Monday to Friday | 7.00 to 9.30 p.m. |
| Saturday and Sunday | 10.00 to 11.00 a.m. |
| 3.00 to 5.00 p.m. | |
| 7.00 to 9.30 p.m. |
A Campus
B Campus and canteen
A Laboratories
B Library
C Class-room
Fig 2
Canteen
Table tennis room
Kitchen
Living quarters
Bicycles parking-lot
Laundry
Clothes drying lines
Garden
Lamp-post
Square
Farm's main road
Fig.3. UNIT OF LIVING QUARTERS IN THE CAMPUS FOR TWO TRAINEES
