SEEN Erasmus Project

Project Title

SEEN

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits); Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The phenomena involving marginalized people requires creative and flexible skills to constantly develop innovative intervention modalities. It emerges as a wave-like pattern so that what you meet in a country will probably be exported to another country in a short time. The outreach projects dealing with marginalized people are capable of reading these developments and offering the opportunity for a “just in time” exchange of different expertise, providing the institutions involved with the data and advice needed to formulate effective responses. Such activities need constant updating and training. Only a wider, structured range of opportunities for mutual learning involving the people working in similar services in areas with similar needs, can best respond to their needs.
Workers, educators, professionals and peers with experience in outreach, low –threshold, harm/risk reduction services, they are the dynamic element of such services and a human resource we must invest in.
Objectives: Empowerment and capacity building for: outreach workers directly involved in the project’s activities,social and health workers indirectly involved in the project’s activities, the organizations involved. Development and implementation of teaching methods and informal/experience-based training.
+ Partners:
Associazione Gruppo Abele onlus is a major organization in Italy, it has worked for 50 years in the social field helping marginalized people with outreach approach, low threshold services and harm/risk reduction initiatives such as: drop-in centres; sex workers mobile units; outreach work targeting minor migrants, homeless people, partygoers; “Università della strada” (Street University), which is Gruppo Abele’s training agency, provids training courses, seminars, technical and psychological support to social and health professionals and organizations all over Italy since 1978.
Foundation The Rainbow Group (RG) in an Amsterdam-based NGO committed to people with social problems: homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse and psychiatric disorders. RG provides day centres and night shelters, psychosocial support, drug consumption rooms and needle exchange programmes. RG has been involved in European and international projects and is the main coordinator of Correlation network (http://correlation-net.org). The aim of the international involvement is to exchange experience and knowledge, to improve the accessibility and quality of services for vulnerable and marginalised people and to influence policies.
Agência Piaget para o Desenvolvimento (APDES) is a Portuguese NGO, it works with people in vulnerable situations (prisoners, elderly people, foster children, drug users, sex workers, …) aiming to improve the access to health, and enhancing social integration and cohesion. APDES is member of international networks: Correlation Network I, II and III, European Network of Harm Reduction (EuroHRN), Access to Treatment and Harm Reduction for Drug Users in Custody (Access) and InDoors – Support and Empowerment of Female Sex Workers and Trafficked Women working in Hidden Places, IDPC – International Drug Policy Consortium; European Civil Society Forum on Drugs, hosted by the European Commission – DG Justice.
Villa Maraini Foundation (VM) is one of the leading organization in Italy in the field of drug abuse prevention and treatment. During 30 years of activity, VM has increased its activities and services, becoming a reference centre on all drug abuse related issues at international level. VM offers a wide range of services and programmes: outreach street units, emergency unit, drop-in centre and night shelter, helpline service, support activities in prison for drug offenders, training courses for specialists and volunteers. VM is member of the Red Cross Movement and it organizes training courses on drug issues for Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies from all over the world.
+ Main activities: international meetings, local training workshop (one workshops/each partner to present the project and to select the trainees, one workshops/each partner to report and share experience and best practices), internships: one month working with another team in another country to learn different modalities, techniques, ways of implementing activities but also to share experiences and provide an external competent point of view to the host organization.). The whole process is be shown during different training phases and through dissemination seminars involving different stakeholders (e.g social workers, public officials, social and health professionals, policy makers etc.),operating manual, process and impact evaluation.
+ Results and impact: For many of trainees their work experience has paved the way for improve motivation and to became more proactive in their activities. It was be done a good log term exchange of knowledge in between partners not only at pratical level but also in terms of different style of working and cultural differences.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 114876,25 Eur

Project Coordinator

Associazione Gruppo Abele onlus & Country: IT

Project Partners

• AGENCIA PIAGET PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO
• STICHTING DE REGENBOOG GROEP
• FONDAZIONE VILLA MARAINI ONLUS