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LIST OF THE PROJECT DEVELOPED BY Work in Progress - WIP 2008-2012
Work in Progress svolge dal 2008 attività nell’ambito della mobilità internazionale, del volontariato ed educazione non formale, della cittadinanza attiva e partecipazione dei giovani e nella lotta contro la discriminazione diventando nel 2012 l’Antenna pugliese della rete NEAR – network nazionale giovanile contro la discriminazione. Inoltre: - WIP è accreditata presso l’Agenzia Nazionale dei Giovani come Ente di Invio/Accoglienza e Coordinamento per il Servizio Volontario Europeo; - WIP è riconosciuta dalla Regione Puglia come Associazione di Volontariato; - WIP è registrata e riconosciuta dal Comune di Galatone e Provincia di Lecce come associazione onlus; - WIP è parte integrante del network provinciale della Provincia di Lecce per l'inclusione Rom. - WIP è Partner di diverse associazione locali per l’inclusione dei giovani sordomuti nei progetti europei. - WIP gestisce su affido d'incarico da parte dell'Università del Salento lo sportello "Europe Direct Salento"; - WIP gestisce su affido d'incarico da parte del Comune di Galatone lo "Sportello Europa" del Comune; - WIP collabora con il Comune di Lecce per lo sviluppo del Piano delle Politiche GIovanili; - WIP è accreditata come Hosting e Sending Organization per programmi Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs ed Erasmus Placement;
Le principali attività svolte in questi anni riguardano la promozione della diversità culturale e integrazione sociale implementando i seguenti progetti europei:
1) Programme or initiative: Gioventù in Azione Numero di rierimento: IT-11-175-2009-R4 Titolo del Progetto: Young Energies Against Discrimination
Description: This project took place in Lecce in March 2010. Its main object was to sensibilize young people about the topic of discrimination working in a intercultural and European dimension with 30 youn people coming from 6 Eu Countries.
2) Programme or initiative: Youth in Action Reference number: IT-43-3-2010-R1 Beneficiary Organisation: Work in Progress Title of the Project: Youthpass: for a better recognition of non formal education
Description: During the training course for Youthpass multipliers, organized by the organization Together Estonia in Haapsalu in June 2009, we came to a conclusion that there is a great need and demand of develop the methodology and tools of the ways of implementation of Youthpass in the “Youth in Action” program. Youthpass became obligatory since several time; however, there is a risk that the fantastic recognition tool Associazione Work in Progress – W.I.P. Via Giovanni XXIII 39 73044 Galatone (Le) – Italy
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that helps also to add greater importance to the non-formal learning process during the projects in general, and youth exchanges in particular, is not completely understood by many organizations that are implementing it. With the support of the partners that we met in Estonia, we proposed to set up a training dedicated to organisations, dealing with youth exchanges and that need to increase their knowledge on Youthpass: evaluate the existing experience and gain concrete tools in order to put it into practice during their activities and to implement it not just as a diploma, but as a motivating self-accessed recognition tool. The training will be lead by an experienced Youthpass trainers from “Together” organization network, participating in Youthpass implementation since its pilot experimental phase in 2006, and continuing to use Youthpass during their activities. This Training will envolve several partners coming from Spain,Portugal,France,Estonia,Germany,Hungary,Romania and Poland with a total of 40 youth worker and, above all, youth leaders with which we worked together in Haapsalu in order to promote the Youthpass tool. It is supposed to take place in Novoli, Lecce, from the 2 of July until 6 of July 2010
3)Programme or initiative: Youth in Action Reference number: IT-31-63-2010-R3 Beneficiary Organisation: Work in Progress Title of the Project: Sharing Youth Experience-Job Shadowing project Italy-Macedonia
Description: Sharing Youth Experience is a bilateral project, job shadowing, promoted by italian organization Work in Progress ,based in Lecce and macedonian organization Together Macedonia, based in Bitola. The two organizations met each other several time cooperatng together in SEE countries. This project is intended to make stronger the relationship between the two NGOs, sharing and improving the knowledge about Youth in Action Program and plan future projects. This project gives the opportunity to young people to be directly involved in the organisation, learning about the organisation as well as their work. The participants will be implemented in the realisation of several projects, as the best way of getting knowledge about Youth in Action Programme. 2 young people from Macedonia will exchange the NGOs experience in a multicultural context for 21 days, cooperating in all the acticities af the organization.The job shadowing will be of 3 weeks,
4)Programme or initiative: Youth in Action Reference number: IT-13-27-2010-R4 Beneficiary Organisation: Work in Progress Title of the Project: Youth4Europe:An ABC to youth participation
Description: Work in Progress deals intensively with the topic of youth partecipation since several years. We developed numerous projects and collected a lot of inforamtion and good practices. Our experience is that very often youth participation initiatives are not successful if they come from adults. They are not suited to the interests, needs and style of young people. Associazione Work in Progress – W.I.P. Via Giovanni XXIII 39 73044 Galatone (Le) – Italy
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This project will give the chance to almost 50 young people to partecipate in a complex and coherent self- development programme and became “participation ambassadors”.The programme for the ambassadors will encompass international peer education meetings, facilitating a local youth forum in another country, coaching and support activities and implementation of their own participation activity. First, young people will partecipate in one of the three international peer educational meetings (organised in France, Portugal, Malta and Italy). These short meetings will give young people a chance to come up with their own innovative, creative or even crazy ideas and concept for youth partecipation. It will be a chance for them to share experience, learn new skills and develop their competences for promotion of partecipation. In the end of the meeting there will be a local youth forum. The partecipation ambassadors will have the role of facilitator at these local youth forums.This will be integral part of the meeting so that they can use their newly acquired knowledge in practice. At the some time, it will be a unique peer learning concept as the youth forums will be led by young people for young people and with an international dimension. Young people from the local community will be invited to the youth forums as well as local decision- makers. This will give a chance to many young people (including disadvantage young people) to express their opinion about local issues and problems as well as to discuss with the decision-makers how to increase youth participation in solving these issues. We will involve the local authorities and ask the patronage from the European deputies among the represented countries.It will also promote generally the concept of youth parteciaption among other young people, decision-makers and general public. Municipality of Lecce, Youth Office and Youth Information center of Lecce will be official partner. The international meeting connected with youth forum will be just first part. As a follow-up, young “participation ambassadors” will be provided with coaching and support by experienced youth workers. When they will come back from the meeting, they will be motivated to organise a small-scale participation initiatives in the local group. This will give them a chance to use their experience in pratical and multiply the participation concept. A few hundred young people will benefit indirectely from these project. We will also create an Internet portal about youth participation.This will serve as a platform for promotion of youth participation among young people, decision-makers, media and general public and for exchange of good practices. It will also increase the visibility of the project and Youth in Action programme. This idea of Youth4Europe: A european ABC to youth partecipation came out after Work in Progress has been the italian partner in another action 1.3 supported by French National Agency. At the end of the project named “Young and Partecipative” the italian partecipant created a workgroup with the Wip referent ant they wrote this project with all the competences that we acquired in this year.
5) Programme or initiative: Youth in Action Reference number: IT-11-266-2010-R5 Beneficiary Organisation: Work in Progress Title of the Project: Think Global, Act Local
Description: The project “Think global, act local!” will bring together 55 young people from 11 different European countries to discuss and reflect together about the global problems and global issues. We believe that to be European citizen means also to be responsible global citizen and be aware about the consequences of our behaviour on the whole planet. On the other hand, all the global issues affect also the European countries. The project will make young people more sensitive to topics like environment and eco-citizenship, fair traide, human rights, overpopulation and demographic problems, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, climate changes and global warming, sustainable development, gender equality, etc. Associazione Work in Progress – W.I.P. Via Giovanni XXIII 39 73044 Galatone (Le) – Italy
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Young people will discover these topics through simulation games, excercises, activities for interaction with local community, discussions in small groups, plenary session, concrete actions workshops, etc. These topics require not only formal knowledge, but also the reflection about values and attitudes. That is why the non-formal education needs to be used. Young people will reflect on what they can do in their every day life to behave more responsibly and to inspire also their local community to change their way of life. We will also present young people the Youth in Action programme and motivate them to organise their own projects on local or international level to support global development. After young people come back home, they should act as multipliers of their newly acquired knowledge and experience. The project will also involve several activities for visibility of the event as well as the whole Youth in Action programme (sending of a press release, interaction with local community, creation of a website, etc.).
6)Programme or initiative: Youth in Action Reference number: IT-11-266-2010-R5 Beneficiary Organisation: Work in Progress Title of the Project: IN-SIDE
Description: The project „IN-SIDE”, Integrative Solution for Intercultural Deaf Exchanges, is an integrative youth exchange that will bring together 30 young people from all over Europe: France, Estonia, Italy, Portugal, Czech Republic and Romania. The delegations will bring together guys and girls from different countries of Europe, and some of whom would have problem with hearing, that is deaf. During the exchange, we will use pedagogical tools like theater, music/poetry and culture workshops in order to help these people to create a great group dynamic and to work together on intercultural level. The non-verbal communication will be used as a working method and international sign language will be taught to all the participants. The mix between the 2 worlds: people who cannot hear and the ones who can will be an enrichment for all the participants, breaking certain barriers and prejudices and the beginning of interesting projects about this thematic (we plan to provide after the youth exchange EVS opportunities for this network of NGOs and also a training course about the thematic). The part of the leaders of the exchange will be deaf themselves and all the leaders will be young people coming from an international team. The project will take place from 19 to 26 of October 2011 in partnership with municipality of Lecce and Lecce Città Universitaria. They support the project indirectly.
7) Programme or initiative: POR Apulia Region Reference number: n/A Beneficiary Organisation: Work in Progress Title of the Project: C5-Stage
Description: The organization Work in Progress will be in charge to the learning process of 15 italian students during their intership in France in several touristic or accounting enterprices. The project has been just approved. More info on the official website of the hight school of Leonardo Da Vinci in Martina Franca http://www.itcgdavinci.it/
8) Programme or initiative: EACEA Youth in Action Reference number: 2011/4490 Associazione Work in Progress – W.I.P. Via Giovanni XXIII 39 73044 Galatone (Le) – Italy
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Beneficiary Organisation: Work in Progress Title of the Project: Youth2europe
Description: The situation of young people in the EU labour markets constitutes a serious social and economic issue: the crisis has led to a dramatic increase in youth unemployment in the EU, which has reached 21% in the fourth quarter of 2010 from 15.7% in spring 2008. However, the crisis only exacerbated structural obstacles for young people in accessing remunerative and sustainable employment. This is not productive for the economy and society as a whole and hinders young people in developing their potential. The project Youth2EU - Youth Empowerment vs Youth Unemployement- aim to support the professional mobility of two youth workers (1 from WIP and 1 from Together France) and exchanges good practises, working methodologies, experiences with a view to promoting the acquisition of new skills and competences in order to enrich their profile as professionals in the youth field; professional competences and skills will be transferred to 100 youth unemployed people field throughout an innovative approach: the Volunteering Card. Volunteering as A Tool for Youth Empowerment Against Youth Unemployment is a shared philosophy for the Partner involved in the project. The activities foreseen in the project Youth2EU will be split in two macro-areas: 1. Project Management 2. Innovative Approach Tool Against Youth Unemployment Both macroactivities aim to contribute to the empowerment of young unemployed people through: 1. Exchanging good practice, working methodologies and experience between Youth Organizations with the activities linked to the project management. Exchanging good practice and experience is one of the core objectives of the European Employment Strategy (EES), which is now an integral part of the Europe 2020 Strategy. 2. The Volunteering Card: An innovative approach tool that will be implemented in the two hosting organizations during 6 months of mobility learning activity. In this way the Volunteerism will be considered as a concrete tool for Professional Job. This priority is intended to encourage the access of local unemployed young people in Lecce and in Metz to the Youth in Action Programme. The responsible that will implement this new volunteering method will be the two youth workers involved in the project. They are also in charge to organize workshop about “what is the Europass, How to fill in an europass, how to apply for a job”. The Eures point will be a support for these activities. The Partner are going to spread the Volunteering Card in their Network around Europe that consist f at least 27 EU NGOs. 30 volunteers in each NGO Partner can adopt the innovative methods and receive the label quality from the Applicant of this project. The project Youth2EU will focuses on tecnical and innovative methods through which youth workers can support unemployed young people in gaining the necessary knowledge, skills and confidence to enter the labour market.
9) Programme or initiative: Youth in Action Reference number: IT-11-E27-2012-R1 Beneficiary Organisation: Work in Progress Title of the Project: Sorry…I am a Gipsy
Description: Sorry…I am a gipsy! will work on intercultural learning of young people through theatre. It is a fantastic tool to empower young people which will give them the opportunity to think, reflect and react about themes like European culture/s, European citizenship, Roma Communities, minorities, racism and xenophobia, Associazione Work in Progress – W.I.P. Via Giovanni XXIII 39 73044 Galatone (Le) – Italy
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problems of young people, etc. In all these subjects interculturality plays a big role and non-formal education is a very interesting method to work on.
10) Programme or initiative: LLP - Leonardo da Vinci - PLM Reference number : 2012-1-IT1-LEO02-02743 Beneficiary Organisation: Work in Progress Title of the Project: "You4EU: Management of NGOs for Inclusive Growth"
Description: The main objective of the project is to involve 36 youngster of the Province of Lecce through professional training abroad and give them the hands-on experience and skills necessary to manage NGOs and, in the greater context, European project management. Currently, the management of NGOs requires increasingly complex and sophisticated tools and skillsets. Many NGOs have begun to understand that a wide range of knowledge, skills, and strategies in the context of European projects are extremely necessary to achieve concrete results, develop a greater local impact, and continue to be competitive in order to contribute to the overall development of a local community. The following skills are covered in the training project: administrative and fiscal management for non-profit organisations, strategic planning, project management, fundraising, communication and marketing for non-profit NGOs communication strategies, working group abilities, and human resource management. In the project are involved also 5 deaf people.
11) Programme or Initiative: Youth in Action - Youth in the world Reference number: n/a Beneficiary Organization: Work in Progress Title of the Project: Euro-Africa on the Move
Description: The project put together Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ghana, Italy, Romania and Greece in order to develop different activities such as awareness campaign for youngsters about the importance to be involved in international mobility projects such as EVS, internships, trainings, and to enhance the international vocation of NGOs developing common projects in the field of employment of young generation.
12) Programme or initiative: PON FESR : Professional Internship abroad and in Italy for graduated students of high school) : Dublin - Barcellona - Granada - Terni - Torino - London (see newspaper attachments for description)
13) Other developed projects and activities: -European Voluntary Service in Europe since 2010 -European Voluntary Service in Guatemala in 2011 -European Voluntary Service in China 2012 -Training courses in Africa about sustainable development in 2011 (Burkina Faso, Senegal and Benin) - Partner in LLP - Leonardo da Vinci IVT project (Hosting coordination and training activity for 15 Turkish students for 3 weeks in ICT enterprises) - Grundtvig Partnership - Job of my Life - internship in Germany Associazione Work in Progress – W.I.P. Via Giovanni XXIII 39 73044 Galatone (Le) – Italy
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- Study Visit for young professionals in Bruxelles - with cooperation of Italy-Belgium Chamber of Commerce and EPA (European Project Association) - Courses on European Project Management
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