MAPS

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MAPS – Military Assets as Public Spaces

Programme and call

URBACT III – Call for Action Planning Networks

 

Short description

MAPS is a transnational project co-financed by the European Territorial Cooperation Programme URBACT III within the 2015 call for “Action Planning Networks”. InEuropa srl has carried out the design and currently supports the lead partner in the management.

Objectives

MAPS intends to enhance the system of military buildings and disused military areas for the development of urban strategies aimed at social cohesion and inclusion, involving other European cities with a similar urban heritage.

The project promotes the transnational exchange of experiences and learning to develop an innovative methodology of intervention and urban planning regarding the presence of abandoned military buildings and empty spaces in urban areas, which contribute to the disintegration of social cohesion and inclusion in some parts of the city, which do not benefit from urban development policies and urban regeneration.

Actions

The following actions are foreseen for Phase 1 of the project:

WP1  –  Project management (network management and coordination, communication between partners and management meetings, management of Lead Expert activities, support for reporting and management of EU funds, participation in events and training at Programme level)

WP2  –  Project development (organisation of two transnational meetings, finalisation of the partnership for Phase 2, completion of the Baseline Study, identification of local stakeholders and creation of the Urbact Local Support Group, project website and logo, finalisation of the project for Phase 2)

 

Results

The main expected results of MAPS are:

– Beneficial exchange between public bodies and the private sector, to support the spread of a culture aimed at investing in public spaces in favour of social inclusion and cohesion.

– Revitalisation of abandoned or unused urban areas and buildings of former military areas, as important local resources from an economic, social, environmental and cultural point of view.

– Creation of new jobs by planning the reuse of these buildings and areas.

Lead partner

Municipality of Piacenza

Partnership

The partnership for Phase 1 is composed of 4 private entities from 4 different countries: Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Spain.

Duration

The project for Phase 1 had a duration of 6 months (15 September 2015 – 15 March 2016)

Website

https://www.facebook.com/URBACTMaps

Total Budget

The project has a total cost of € 78,457.08 for Phase 1

Contribution

61.354,94 co-financed by the EU (70% for more developed regions, 85% for less developed regions).

Funding body
European Commission – Directorate-General REGIO

E-VET

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Empowering VET Teachers – Innovative & Enhanced CPD for Newly Qualified VET Teachers Working with Migrant Students 

Project number: 2018-1-PL01-KA202-050618

Leader

Università di Lodz (ULO) – Facoltà di Economia e Sociologia (PL)

Programme and call

Erasmus+ KA2 – Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, Strategic Partnerships for Vocational Education and Training, Call 2018

Short description

Because of a significant youth unemployment rate of 18,4% in the UE and a total flow of people that immigrate to one of the EU-28 member states amounting at 3,4 million, it’s held to be true that are needed innovative operations and qualities in the VET area in order to sustain the economic growth both national and European level.

The E-VET project contributes to the overall Europa 2020 objectives, according to which, VET systems should be attractive and inclusive with VET teachers highly qualified, which can supply students both key and specific professional skills. VET teachers operate as social agents, contributing to the development of a skilled workforce, essential to the EU to compete globally, promote social inclusion and sustain his high standards of life.

So, the project main objective is improving the Uninterrupted Professional Development of VET teachers which work with students from all over the world and ethnically different, making them able to reinforce the inclusion level within the school background and consequently strengthen the economic and social empowerment of disadvantaged group of teenagers.

 

Objectives

  • Provide teachers in the field of Vocational Education and Training (VET) an online diagnostic tool that can help them evaluate their own professional skills and identify improvement areas guaranteeing an additional and relevant ongoing formation based on their individual necessities.
  • Provide VET teachers with new skills and tools pertinent to the soft skills, to encourage intercultural communication and skills, improving the underprivileged children’s participation and learning level and tackling discrimination, racism, and bullying.
  • Provide VET teachers with digital guides in order to increase the social inclusion level within the class, using training scenarios in interactive learning activities ready for immediate implementation in the class.

 

The project activities are:

>INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS (O)

  • O1 Online Diagnostic Test for the soft skills evaluation
  • O2 E-learning platform with soft skills methods and tools in order to support intercultural communication
  • O3 Capability E-VET MOOC. Didactic methods to increase social inclusion within the class

>LEARNING TEACHING AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES (C)

Implementation of a transnational training event (LTTA), aiming at finalizing the E-VET MOOC training program, based on the results achieved previously in the project.

>MULTIPLIER EVENTS (E)

5 multiplayer events (E1-E5) will be organised at a local/national level in the involved countries, to spread and transfer the project results.

 

Expected results:

  • Higher knowledge and confidence in the use of teaching methods aimed at social inclusion by teachers in the VET industry.
  • Improvement of VET teachers’ motivation for vocational training and skills development.
  • Increase of insights and benefits obtained by stakeholders and external partners.

 

Beneficiaries:

VET teachers, in particular, to those working in multicultural contexts, educational institutions, active institutions on formal, non-formal, and informal formation, public management, ONG active in multicultural sectors.

 

Partnership

Lead partner: Università di Lodz (ULO) – Facoltà di Economia e Sociologia (Poland)

– PP1: Valencia Innohub (Spain)

– PP2: EURO LIDER (Poland)

– PP3: InEuropasrl (Italy)

– PP4: Cosmic Innovations (Cyprus)

– PP5: KNOW AND CAN ASSOCIATION (Bulgaria)

Project duration

The project lasts 24 months (from 01/10/2018 to 30/09/2021)

 

Project funding

The total cost project is 226.600 euro

FAIR

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FAIR – Fighting Against Inmates’ Radicalisation

Project Number 763538 – FAIR – JUST-AG-2016/JUST-AG-2016-03

Programme and call

Justice Programme – Call for proposals JUST-JCOO-TERR-AG-2016 “Action grants to support national or transnational projects regarding the criminal justice response to prevent radicalisation leading to terrorism and violent extremism”.

Short description

The FAIR project addresses the phenomenon of radicalization that leads to violent extremism within the prison, with the aim of promoting greater awareness of the problem among professionals working around the prison system, identify good practices of de-radicalisation and prevention of the phenomenon and implement a system of early recognition of risk elements that can lead to radicalization of inmates. The project develops an experimental rehabilitation programme for these vulnerable individuals and a training programme for operators. The final objective is to evaluate the feasibility of an alternative model to the specific prison for the disengagement of prisoners at risk.

 

Objectives

The specific objectives of the project are as follows:

– to analyse and assess the specific needs of detention centre operators in relation to the relationship with radicalised detainees/risk of radicalisation

– increase the skills and abilities of detention centre operators to be able to act with radicalised prisoners at risk of radicalisation

– create, through appropriate training of prison staff, an early warning system, making these professionals able to identify and signal in a preventive manner the behaviours at risk and the most vulnerable people so as to include them in a specifically designed rehabilitation program

– to assess the feasibility of an alternative structure to prison for the reception and rehabilitation and gradual social reintegration of radicalised prisoners / at risk of radicalisation, creating an experimental and transferable model at European level.

 

Actions

– Workpackage 1: Project management and coordination

– Workpackage 2: Dissemination and sustainability of results

– Workpackage 3: Analysis of best practices in Europe on measures to prevent terrorist activities and to recruit and map the needs of detention centre operators

– Workpackage 4: Work tables and training of prisoners/children’s prisons/community institutions

– Workpackage 5: Feasibility study of an alternative detention model for the rehabilitation of extremist and radicalised prisoners

 

Expected results

– increasing the skills of operators in identifying behaviour attributable to violent extremism

– promotion of de-radicalisation/disengagement of prisoners involved in rehabilitation programmes

– better cooperation and communication between detention centre operators and the police forces

– more tools and knowledge available to law enforcement agencies and prisons on terrorist activities, including Islamic ones, and on recruitment campaigns via the web

– increasing opportunities for social reintegration and promoting the integration of individuals at risk into society

 

Lead partner

Fondazione Nuovo Villaggio del Fanciullo (IT)

 

Partnership

The partnership is made up of 9 subjects from 8 different countries:

– University of Malta (MT)

– Arq Psychotrauma Expert Groep (NL)

– The European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations – HEUNI (FI)

– DARTKE Association (HU)

– Centre for Promoting Life-Long Learning – CPIP (RO)

– EUROCOOP Institute (SI)

– CIK Trebnje (SI)

– Social Innovation Fund (LT)

– Associação Portuguesa Conversas de Psicologia (PT)

 

Duration

The project has a duration of 24 months (9 October 2017 – 8 October 2019)

 

EU contribution

The European grant received is €734 688,34.

 

Website

www.fair-project.eu/en/

 

Funding body

European Commission – DG Justice and Consumers