Glocal Factory designs and implements projects granted by the European Union and other public and private institutions, aimed at social inclusion, people and community empowerment, sustainable development.

We are currently engaged, together with other Italian and European partners, in implementing 15 transnational projects funded by the EU in the frame of the Erasmus Plus Programme:


WINGS

Carefully designed programmes are elemental to help migrant women to socially and economically integrate and get empowered through quality learning opportunities; provide adult educators with innovative tools in order to facilitate migrant women’s empowerment and inclusion; develop migrant women’s transversal skills and competences in order to support their socio-educational and personal development, and influence policy solutions that are centred around immigrants, and particularly migrant women.

RaCIP – Raising Capacity for Inclusive People engaged in private sponsorship

Project supported by AMIF programme of the European Union, RaCIP involves 9 partners from 5 countries.

RaCIP will enhance capacity building for organisations operating Private Sponsorship (PS) schemes or otherwise engaged in community-based support to refugees’ integration. The project will feature several pilot schemes aimed at scaling up existing PS and strengthening community-based efforts by experimenting PS initiatives in the Member States involved.

Boomering – Combattere le fake news col pensiero critico [pagina in italiano]

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Boomering è un progetto Europeo Erasmus Plus che vuole offrire agli adolescenti, ai genitori e agli educatori strumenti e metodi per contrastare le fake news e la disinformazione sul web sui temi della Salute, Politica, Migrazione, Economia, Religione, Ambiente etc.

PROM-PAR

Promoting migrants’ democratic participation and integration.

The objective of the project, which aims at stakeholders such as national and local institutions and NGOs/service providers, is to create a training curriculum and modules on Civic Education for newly arrived and settled Asylum Seekers and beneficiaries of International Protection through a unified online platform. The scope is to offer multi-faceted CE opportunities and support their social inclusion process into the host societies, with tacit knowledge such as virtues, norms and critical thinking so as to strengthen their autonomy, self-efficacy, to self-confidence and enhance their cognitive skills.

GREEN S.E.E.D.S

Synergy and Environment to Empower Decentralized Schools.

A 36 months project, starting the 1st of September 2019. It is an Erasmus Plus project, a Strategic Partnership for Innovation that aims to help the breaking of isolation of the schools located in decentralized regions (in the mountain and in the smaller islands), trying to counter the risk that their geographical isolation may lead to cultural deprivation towards the correct knowledge, understanding and participation to the globalized and constantly interconnected world of today by the youngest.

Individually, some members of “Glocal Factory” are involved in the implementation of other EU projects. Among them:

  • PANDPAS – PRE AND POST ARRIVAL SCHEMES TO FACILITATE INCLUSION AND PREVENT XENOPHPOBIA AND RADICALIZATION, focused on refugees’ welcoming and first inclusion
  • BELOW 10, focused on fighting against early school leaving
  • AMARE – A Multicultural Approach to REsilience, focused on migrants involvement in civili protection activities