Gargantua’s soul
Youth in Action - action 1.2
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Action n. IT-12-E314--2012-R3
The project "Gargantua's soul" comes from the awareness, from the applicant organization, of the existence on the local territory of several groups of foreigners who interact little in the social everyday life. According to official surveys in fact:
a) the population of foreign nationality and residing in Basilicata for work, study or personal reasons, is equal to about 3% of the total population;
b) the number of births with foreign origin in Italy is in constant growing and seems more than the double of number of the the last five years (among foreigners mostly living on the territory of Lucania there are: Romanians, Albanians, Moroccans, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Polishes, Tunisians, etc.).
For these reasons, it is easy to fee the need for actions based on issues relating to intercultural activities, oriented to reflection and that could promote the real encounter among different cultures, that, while living together in the same territory, have difficulty interaction.
This project therefore intends to meet this real need through non-formal education activities that could encourage active citizenship and support the social commitment to promote the entry into a supranational European dimension. The proposed activities will be characterized by a peer to peer approach structured to engage fully and truly participated form many young people who, in turn, could become a means of conveying information to other young people through the transmission of personal experiences and needs.
EURO-NET aims to reach the outlying areas of the city of Potenza mostly populated by foreign families, the smaller towns and villages known to be inhabited by many families from other European countries and that, for geographical and social position, are poorly motivated to integration and to participation in initiatives aimed at active citizenship and at sharing of cultures.
The project, which is inspired by a famous French literature character (exactly the giant Gargantua), which with his "big step" is able to traverse distant lands and learn about people different from each another, wants to create a network of aware relations through the discovery of diverse traditions and encouraging the sharing.
Through engaging activities based on intercultural workshops of various kinds marked to education for active citizenship and to social inclusion (such as peer to peer interventions, team coaching, tutoring, etc..), the project seeks to promote the social integration of young people aged from 15 to 20 years coming from different ethnic groups with peers of the area.
The project has a duration of 10 months and it is divided into three phases: preparation, implementation and follow-up.
In the first phase the project will define the operational details (dates and locations of the various activities) and it will carry out meetings with local Authorities and/or Organisms working in the field of social integration in order to effectively communicate the objectives and initiatives of the project and identify the group of direct beneficiaries. Very important at this stage will also be the communication campaign (which incidentally will be continued in a constant way for the full duration of the project).
In the second phase the project will implement:
- intercultural workshops based on manual tasks and oral transmission;
- meetings with families of origin;
- meetings of education for democracy, solidarity citizenship and active European citizenship;
- social inclusion activities through guided tours, peer to peer interventions, team coaching, tutoring;
- a press-tour with the participation of some journalists to laboratory activities and a series of 4 radio broadcasts.
In the final phase the project will carry out:
- the evaluation report;
- the analysis of feedback from beneficiaries and operators;
- the dissemination and exploitation of results (that will also be strengthened by the creation of a photographic exhibition and a video of the realized initiatives).
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