European projects list

According to Lisbon objectives in education and training and under the assumption of the important role that schools have for integration (as stressed in EU CBP for immigrant integration policy), considered that valorisation of human capital is a primary asset not only for social integration issues, but also for a knowledge-based competitiveness benefit, in particular in time of economic downturn and labour market difficulties, the proposal, focusing on secondary education (11-18 years old students) aims to improve comparative knowledge on good practises of assessments and recognition of knowledge, skills and competences of migrant students entering and exiting the education system, in order to adapt teaching skills, to avoid the placement of migrant children in lower than their age-appropriate grades and to support new forms of knowledge certification useful for job research and mobility. The project wants also to promote an effective mutual exchange at translocal level between educational staff to share experiences and to identify common criteria to disseminate good practices in assessing and recognizing of migrant students competences and to improve equity and wellbeing in education, involving also migrant families.

The project has the general objective of expanding the knowledge-base on the available services of each geographical area, exchange experiences and good practices, creating a set of self-assessment indicators on the quality of the services, with a European scope. Besides, in Lombardia Region: testing of the set of indicators and selection of criteria for the accreditation of the regional services targeted to minors victims of violence.

The project aims to promote social inclusion of young care leavers in the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine through public-private partnerships. The project expect to achieve: increasing knowledge about constraints suffered by young care leavers, existing services in their support, challenges still to be faced and potentialities to be developed by Non State Actors and Local Authorities in each country; improving operational capacities of Non State Actors and Local Authorities in pursuing their mission; implementing effective supporting services for 600 young care leavers by Non State Actors and Local Authorities; increasing Non State Actors and Local Authorities influence on local and national decision making processes affecting young care leavers’ destiny.

The main aim is to contribute to locally develop effective social policies aimed to promote social inclusion of young people leaving child protection residential settings (such as institutions and community based services).
The operative objectives are:

• to offer policy-makers and social service providers evidence based on ad hoc transnational social experimentation to evaluate the possibility to introduce in their respective child protection systems the professional figure of the "social intermediary" able to support (before and after) young people leaving residential settings to approach the new challenging social context;
• the improvement of the quality of services for care leaving.

The main issue of the project is sharing international good practices in decentralized management of immigration and in the implementation of public regional services of Lombardia (IT) and Wallonia (BE).
Develop an analytic, methodological and institutional frame to improve the management of migration flow in Autonomous Region of Andalusia as foreseen in the article 62 of the statute of autonomy of Andalusia.

This programme intends to co-finance the operating expenses that enable European Federation of Street Children to implement a range of activities envisaged in their work programmes that contribute to the development and implementation of one or several of the objectives of the Daphne III programme, such as contributing to the prevention of, and the fight against, all forms of violence occurring in the public or the private domain against children, young people and women, including sexual exploitation and trafficking in human beings, by taking preventive measures and by providing support and protection for victims and groups at risk.

In accordance to Art. 20 of the UN Convention on Children’s Rights (CRC) of 1989, foster care is promoted across Europe. Notwithstanding, civil society organisations (CSOs) have identified the following problems: insufficient access to foster care and ethnic discrimination; inadequate support to the family of origin; no data exist on the effective participation of the child on the matters that concern himself or herself. This project addresses the clear need of more in-depth research and recommendations on this issue. Its general aim is the promotion of appropriate and effective forms of foster care in accordance to the spirit of the CRC of 1989, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Parliament resolution of 16th January 2008 Towards an EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child. All these legal sources highlight the need of making the child grow up in a family environment.

According to UNICEF, children in institutions find themselves at a higher risk of exploitation, abuse and neglect. Violence against children in residential facilities takes a number of forms:

• violence within residential care. Child-to-child violence is often not less significant than that perpetrated by the staff. The Committee on the Rights of the Child has recently notified Romania of its concerns about violence in care facilities. In Bulgaria the number of incidents of violence of older over younger children within institutions is so alarmingly high that the impression is that violence is the basic mean of communication. We can assume that such high incidence of physical violence is related to other forms such as verbal violence.
• unwarranted and/or inappropriate placements. international research overwhelmingly shows that for children under three-five years of age, placements in residential (as opposed to family-based) facilities because has long-term detrimental effects can be qualified as “acts of violence” in themselves.

The specific objective of the project proposal is the empowerment of social care providers (local public authorities and not for profit organisations) operating in the areas of the partnership so as to increase their capacity to prevent, detect and manage these types of violence suffered by children living in residential care.

The project intends to address the lack of knowledge in three European geographical areas (Regione Puglia in Italy, the Region Wallonie in Belgium and Paìs Vasco in Spain) about: on one side, the characteristics and diffusion of the phenomenon of violence against women; on the other side, and this is the main added value of the project, the characteristics of actions and services available on the surveyed territories for this target.

The consumption of drugs in recreational settings is increasing in Europe and it is becoming a growing phenomenon especially among young people. The recreational settings, and in particular the night-life ones, represent the best places where to implement actions for preventing and reducing drug use, dependence and drug-related harms. While in other prevention contexts (i.e. school) many studies and research about the effectiveness of the programmes are available, the knowledge-base is not so developed regarding prevention in recreational settings. This for two main reasons: prevention in recreational settings is at the moment only translated into experimental actions, while prevention in traditional contexts like school, peer groups or local community is not; the traditional methodologies of epidemiological research adopted for the evaluation of prevention programmes are not applicable to these kinds of action, because it is not possible to have a stable sample during time (time-series).The project proposed aimed to fill these knowledge-gaps through research and analysis actions promoted by an interdisciplinary transnational workgroup in order to improve the knowledge base and the exchange of information about the prevention and reduction of drug-related harms programs in recreational environments.

The care leavers are post-institutionalised young people that have to leave the residential placements where they have grown when reaching 18 years old. Young care leavers who lived for a long period of time the experience of a protective measure outside their birth-family represent a target-group of persons at great risk of poverty and social exclusion. These young people are often absolutely de-socialised, without any family-relationship, without daily autonomy, without neither skills nor chances for job employment, often without housing opportunities, exposed to different kinds of exploitation such as child trafficking, prostitution, criminal activities, begging, etc. (this is especially true in Eastern European countries), at risk of social and psychological disease and deviance. The project aims at studying their experience of transition to the outside world and evaluating possible services of support they might have received, as well as their main needs.

This project is aimed at the promotion of life-long learning and the labour integration of victims of discrimination. The main products are: a set of indicators on integration and fight against discrimination on the labour market and within social and health services; transnational comparison among different monitoring systems; case studies; elaboration of a research protocol able to analyse the migratory phenomena; on-line bibliographical archive.

Active@Work addressed the sub-theme of management of demographic change. The main priority issue addressed was development and piloting of alternative working arrangements at enterprise level to improve the quality of work for ageing and older workers which includes maintaining the health and well-being of workers. It consists of different means such as rethinking the way work is organised, adapting work processes and making working arrangements more flexible. Active@Work aimed to increase the ability of enterprises to utilise alternative working arrangements as a mean to prevent the early retirement of their employees. The second objective of the proposed project is to intensify European level discussion, evaluation, co-operation and supportive activities concerning alternative work arrangements for aging labour force. To realize this a Transnational Dilogue Forum (TDF) was established.

This project deals with the adaptability of migrant workers on the labour market and with the elaboration of tools for the monitoring of the socio-economic integration of migrants.

Project on the labour insertion of migrant workers with the development of a set of indicators.