Inside the Agreement of the plan “Informazione, Formazione di Educazione Ambientale” IN.F.E.A. (Information, training end environmental education) with the Ministry of environmental and territory protection.
Department for the development, Calabria endowed itself whit a network (constituted by territorial laboratories and Experience centres coordinated by a regional facility provided of promotional, cooperative and checking tasks) called C.R.E.A.R.E. (coordination centre of regional environmental education network) in order to reach the following targets:
 

	to propose a unique frame of region’ s actions in the educational, training, informative and environment field.
	to promote the functional ordainment among public boards, privates and associations which operate on regional territory with promoting aims regarding the knowledge of the environment and the opportunities of a sustainable development.
	to support the operative conditions for the development of a wider regional system for the environmental education and the establishment of technical tools for the system coordination.

The new established experience centre for Reggio Calabria district is “GAIA. A net for environmental education”; realised by Prometeo Association; it takes shape as a place where didactic, training and research activities are linked to meaningful experiences and activities in the environmental field. The experience centre takes shape as a facility where it’s possible to become experienced directly to one or more natural or semi-natural ecosystems.