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Startdate: 2011-11-05

Summary
Millares is listed as one of the Land_Offers in Spain to OSE Europe by the Spain Community. It is a little city about 45 km south-west of Valencia with a population of 530 people - Google Map

Finca de Cavas en Millares; current situation pending
Finca de Cavas it the main interest of OSE Europe. This land still has to be requested from the local administration. The spanish community is in the process of creating an association called “Tecnologia de Codigo Abierto/ Open Source Technology” with the purpose to have another legal entity for bureaucratic documentation.

Facts about Finca de Cavas:
 * annotated Google Map
 * Finca de Cavas en Millares is in Wind Zone 6; Average wind speed: 6.4 – 7.0 m/s 800 watts/m2

Workshop; 350€/month; not used atm

 * 750m2 Workshop:
 * There is lots of material such as such as metal, electric motors, gears, etc.
 * There are 6 Industrial Loom Clamp “Nuovo Pignone TP 300”(for manufacturing of all kinds of fabrics from delicate fabrics such as bed sheets to heavy fabrics such as tarps/canvas, jeans.
 * 2 Industrial Automatic Shuttle Loom “Cerdans”

Jesus' Land; free to use

 * “Paraje las Fuentecicas”; 3ha land; slope of 50%: Could be used for terraces (farming) or cabins/domes(housing)
 * Flat Land; 2000m2; abundant water(spring): Could be used for an Aquaponics System. There is place to raise chickens, make compost containers, there are hives for honey production, bees have enough natural resources in the area.

Rabbit Farm; 300€/month; 1 acre

 * 2 buildings, one of 350 square meters and the other of aabout 200/250 sqaure meters
 * 250 olive trees
 * 2.000sq meters free space (maybe more where domes or cabins or any other structure like containers could be built and used for housing

House for Rent; 3 rooms; 150€/month
This is a house in Millares; 300 euros extra as security for the owner in case of damage; is returned after ent of contract, no damage

Lands for farming in Town

 * Usufruct: As most lands are abandoned because the town has suffer depopulation in the last decade, the majority of people in town is old and is pensionary, so most of the people who have some piece of land doesn’t use it. Some of them have offered their piece of land to Jesus for him to develop his purposes or in fact Sicania Nova Coop objectives, so now it is an alternative to have some pieces of land for free. The quality of earth of these lands is for determine. There is an area of the town that has good quality of earth.


 * For Rent: The same lands or other lands with better features. All these info is for determine till new information is generated.


 * To Buy: Some lands can be purchased for about 1.000€/Hectare, depending on land quality

Sicania Cooperative Current Situation:
Sicania Nova is a worker cooperative under the Social Economy Enterprises. Its main objective is the creation of ethical employment, especially for youth in the rural world, practical training and the promotion of cooperation as a way of generating new decent jobs for its members and partners, as well as giving the rest of society a chance to progress and fare well.

Objectives: Methods of achieving these objectives:
 * Create stable and quality employment.
 * Encourage the development and use of renewable energy.
 * Promote respect for the environment.
 * Encourage a cooperative and social economy.
 * The short-term creation of jobs through activities related to the principles of the cooperative.
 * The construction of a development and training centre in renewable energy.
 * Convert the cooperative into an integral cooperative that can meet the needs of its partners.

The cooperative has several advantages: Here is their Website
 * It has “legal identity” so it will save time if anyone wishes to undertake a new project.
 * There is land available for farming and a workshop.
 * In addition to the available land there are people willing to give up their land they are not using to new projects.

The current situation of cooperative is that have no financial capacity and will have to sell machines and metal parts as scrap to get some monetary resources to cover expenses. Possibly will have to close doors for it has no human resources or financial capacity to achieve its goals by now.