I linguaggi dell’accoglienza. Una nuova generazione per un’Europa inclusiva

<< Background >>We have presented this project to respond to the lack of inclusive and intercultural approaches in youth work with young people with migrant backgrounds in the Mediterranean territories involved: Portugal, Spain, Greece. In fact, all the partner organizations operate in Mediterranean regions characterized by strong migratory flows and social inequalities. The need for inclusive, creative and community-based strategies has clearly emerged, especially among young people with fewer opportunities. The project responds to the need to create shared spaces for training and reflection between youth workers, volunteers and social operators to co-create tools for local inclusion through artistic languages. Furthermore, it responds to the need of small organizations to enter or strengthen their presence in the Erasmus+ program and collaborate transnationally on common challenges.<< Objectives >>The primary aim of the project is the specific training through artistic methodologies of a mixed group of young professionals and young people with a migrant background from 4 Southern European countries (Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy) aimed at acquiring basic skills in welcoming and activating integration/inclusion processes between native young people and young people with a migrant background. The second objective is the sharing of good welcoming practices among the partners located in Southern Europe in the Mediterranean area, areas affected by the arrival of migratory flows.The second objective is the specific training of 21 young youth workers from the partnership organizations through creative and artistic methodologies and the networking of organizations that operate locally and at European level for the strengthening of an inclusive social transformation of their communities.The long-term objective was to contribute to the construction of an inclusive Europe, which makes diversity an element of wealth, through a partnership committed to building welcoming communities, with particular attention to young people with fewer opportunities<< Implementation >>1. Management and reporting2. Training course “Languages ​​of Welcome: arts and creative tools for migrant inclusion”: this activity is structured in two phases:Online preparatory meetingsIntensive training course in Lecce, at Fondazione Emmanuel, which includes the transnational mobility of n. 18 participants3. n. 7 Local events4. Transnational event and presentation of the guide “Languages ​​of welcome: traces of interculturality”: meeting organized by SAMU, Seville.5. Communication and dissemination<< Results >>Among the tangible results of the project are listed:- Library of practical and replicable resources for participants: it is a collection of all the experiences carried out during the 7 local events (World Cafè) collected within the Methodological Guide “Languages ​​of welcome: traces of interculturality”: it is an Operational Manual with tools and participatory dynamics to be used for the activation of intercultural and multicultural community processes-Intercultural Diary: collection of the “intercultural diaries” of the partnership containing the advances of the skills acquired.Among the results there is certainly the increase in the skills of the youth workers who took part in the training course and in a tangible way it can be seen both from the questionnaires to which they responded and from the organization of the local events and related content contributions produced.