EXSULI Erasmus Project

Project Title

EXSULI

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Integration of refugees; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

ExULI is a strategic partnership for innovation in the Youth sector, lasting 24 months. The project partnership is formed by 5 organizations from 4 of the main European countries concerned by the reception of migration flows: Replay Network (ITALY) as applicant and coordinator, CCP-Onlus (ITALY), Pistes Solidaires (FRANCE), Active Citizens Partnership (GREECE) and Forum Opcio Escola Campo Lacaniano (SPAIN). The cross-sectoral nature of this consortium, in which the experience in educational programmes for European cooperation and a strong expertise in the fields of non-formal education with young people and Lacanian psychoanalytic practice converge and are combined, is at the same time the distinctive feature and one of the main innovative aspects of the project.

At the core of ExULI there was the aim of fostering, within communities, synergies between professionals active in the field of work with young migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and second generation, from different fields of intervention, such as youth workers, social workers, educators, teachers, cultural mediators, psychoanalysts, psychologists and other multipliers, in order to improve the impact of their current practices and encourage innovation, moving away from the idea of standardization and responding concretely to the needs of the current migration phenomenon. In this way, the project aimed to act in the direction of depowering the conditions that can lead to extremism and violent radicalisation, while intervening both on the subjective dimension of young migrants and on the communities in which these young people often find themselves forced to flow into. In particular, the project approach is based on the combination of the typical conditions created by non-formal education methods, such as the ability to engage, the creation of safe, welcoming and positive environments and the presence of the group in support of the individual, with the knowledge acquired from the psychoanalytic discourse, in order to allow these young people to elaborate their trauma. However, this can only happen by creating the conditions for them to be able to identify it and recognise it.

ExULI has been developed through the implementation of the following actions:

• 4 INTERNATIONAL FOCUS MEETING targeting the staff of the partner organisations, in order to capitalise the expertise of the different consortium members applied to the field of work with young migrants and thus translate it into an intellectual product which can be transferable and exploitable in different contexts;
• A COMPENDIUM that outlines and presents an integrated approach of non-formal education and Lacanian psychoanalysis related to the area of reception, in order to foster the creation of preconditions for the treatment of trauma of young migrants through the participation in expressive pathways (atelier) based on low threshold access;
• INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE FOR FACILITATORS targeting the staff of the partner organizations, in order to test the developed approach and its methodological framework and prepare European educators and psychoanalysts for the implementation of ateliers with young migrants in their local realities;
• EXPRESSIVE PATHWAYS (ATELIER) targeting young migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and second generation, focused on four low threshold expression medium (images, words, sounds, movement) in order to stimulate the exploration of their symbolic and imaginary resources and the creation of new social links;
• AN IMPACT ANALYSIS on the implementation of the atelier in order to highlight and capitalise the impact and potential of the experience and approach proposed in the Compendium on direct beneficiaries (young migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and second generation) and operators;
• A WEB PLATFORM targeting professionals active in the field of work with young migrants, in order to create connections between practictioners, to access the contents of the Compendium through a dedicated MOOC and to deepen the dialogue and exchange through a section of additional resources and a Community of Practice space;

The project managed to reach more than 162.000 people interested in the topic of ExULI. The intellectual products of the project have been strengthened by an experimentation phase in the 4 countries, carried out by the consortium, through the involvement of 23 practictioners who activated 17 atelier pathways and raised the interest of 404 beneficiaries, of which 187 actually participated in the activities. The active sharing of what has been produced and the extension of the professional community involved is now fed by the www.exuli.eu platform, which has seen more than 2.700 interactions in the first period of operation alone.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 247478,25 Eur

Project Coordinator

REPLAY Network & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Forum Opció Escola Campo Lacaniano – Cataluña
• SYNERGASIA ENEGON POLITON
• Collegio di Clinica Psicoanalitica Onlus, Spazio Clinico di Praxis – FCL in Italia
• PISTES SOLIDAIRES