The Charter of Todi and the Strategy of Education for a Sustainable Management and Promotion of Territory

Abstract The issue of territorial governance and the promotion of integrated and sustainable land use are currently at the center of international debate. This focuses on strategies for the protection, conservation and enhancement of the different areas around the world, the relationship between urban and rural areas, the challenge of renewable energy, green economy and the eradication of poverty. These objectives and issues therefore need to be put into practice by local, national and international professionals who, from the perspective of “think globally, act locally”, have distinctly modernized “know-how” and the “ability to act”. With these targets, an International Summer School entitled Sustainable Management and Promotion and Territory-SIS SMPT was set up, which has already seen and realized Editions I and II in 2011 and 2012 in Todi(Italy). The participants at the International Summer School—SIS-SMPT have decided to draw up a final document that, in honor of the City of Todi, location of the SIS-SMPT, recognized as the City more Sustainable in the World, was named the Todi Charter. The Charter indicates in the keyword “TRADI-OVATION” intended as an acronym for “Territory, Rural Areas, through Development, Innovation, Organization, Valorization, user friendly Technology, ICT sharing, Online Networking” the main theme around which this innovative process can be structured to give effective credibility. The Charter of TODI could be an attractive example of modality to capture the curiosity of the student to be involved in study, research and training with reference to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Strategy all around the world.