Time to start?
Last year when we held Lote also at unMonastery we came up with something to help us engage with the local people… We wrote and published an open letter to the community Matera 2019, in Italian, inviting people to join us and get involved in the organisation. It worked wonderfully - people offered to host conference participants, help cook meals together and so on.
Can we consider writing maybe a post in Italian to launch engagement - explaining we are looking for projects on stewardship and want to meet the initiators? We could then publish it in Italian media and social media groups. Or maybe you guys already have tons of personal contacts?
I think this could work, if not for making new contacts, at least for starting to be visible in key spaces.