PROJECT
COORDINATOR:
Asociación Gantalcalá
Sevilla y Logroño, Spain
Gantacalá is a non-profit organisation of European
dimension whose mission is to contribute to the development of a participative,
tolerant and supportive society, through education, culture and social
inclusion. Our activities (carried out by professionals and local or
international volunteers) are divided in seven programmes: Learning Mobility;
Intercultural Learning and Multilingualism; Health& Sports; E-Inclusion;
Creativity & Social Initiative; Participation & Active Citizenship; and
Volunteering.
LEARNING MOBILITY
Within the programme LEARNING MOBILITY, Gantalcalá
offers to all age-groups (young people, adults and elderly) the opportunity to
participate in short and long term mobility activities at transnational level
such as: cultural exchanges, language courses, professional internships, etc.
The participation in such activities at transnational level is key to the
development of intercultural understanding and the acquisition of certain
skills such as communication in a foreign language. With the objective of
making these opportunities accessible to everyone regardless of their age,
gender, social backgrounds..., Gantalcalá offers to those interested, people or
organisations, advice and technical support on how to apply for public funding
for these activities.
INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND
MULTILINGUALISM
Within the programme INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND
MULTILINGUALISM, Gantalcalá organizes throughout the year different educational
and leisure activities aiming at promoting the development of intercultural
understanding and the acquisition of certain skills such as communication in a
foreign language amongst all members of society. The use of methods and
techniques based on experiential learning makes these activities entertaining
to all regardless of their age or education level.
INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND
MULTILINGUALISM
Within the programme INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND
MULTILINGUALISM, Gantalcalá organizes throughout the year different educational
and leisure activities aiming at promoting the development of intercultural
understanding and the acquisition of certain skills such as communication in a
foreign language amongst all members of society. The use of methods and
techniques based on experiential learning makes these activities entertaining
to all regardless of their age or education level.
HEALTH & SPORTS
Within the HEALTH & SPORTS programme, Gantalcalá
develops, throughout the year, various educational and leisure activities
promoting, amongst all members of society (youth, adults, elderly) the adoption
of a healthy life-style. The amplitude of the objectives of this programme,
together with the broad spectrum of its target group, is reflected in the wide
range of activities it includes, such as: children workshops promoting the
consumption of fruits and vegetables; sessions on nutrition addressed to young
people and their parents; training courses on healthy cooking; traditional
recipe contests for the elderly; campaigns to prevent drug consumption; sports
activities for all; etc.
E-INCLUSION
Within the programme e-INCLUSION, Gantalcalá organises,
throughout the year, various activities with the aim of facilitating and
encouraging the use of the New Technologies by all members of society (young
people, adults and elderly). This program includes activities such as: training
courses and workshops where participants can learn how to: use email and social
networks; do your on-line shopping; get your digital certificate and execute
on-line procedures with public administrations, etc. The simultaneous
participation of young people, adults and elderly in this kind of activities,
promotes de development of intergenerational relations and, at the same time,
contributes to the personal development and the active participation of the
elderly in society.
CREATIVITY & SOCIAL
INITIATIVE
Within the CREATIVITY & SOCIAL INITIATIVE
programme, Gantalcalá offers consulting and technical support to any person or
organisation interested in carrying out a social project but does not have the
time, knowledge and/or the necessary resources to go through with it. A professional
team, with a wide experience in the design, management and evaluation of social
projects, will provide support throughout all the project’s phases, giving
technical advice whenever necessary while always keeping in mind the wishes of
the initiator of the project.
PARTICIPATION & ACTIVE
CITIZENSHIP
Within the PARTICIPATION & ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP
programme, Gantalcalá carries out different educational and leisure activities
in order to promote and facilitate an active participation of all the different
age-groups (young people, adults and elderly) in society. The activities
offered by Gantalcalá within the framework of this programme cover a wide range
of topics, from the basic mechanisms of participative democracy, to the
functioning of the European institutions. The promotion of the “structured
dialogue” between citizens and decision-makers, is a transversal priority of
the programme, therefore it is present in all the programme’s activities
developed throughout the year.
City: Alcalá de Guadaíra
Website: www.gantalcala.org
Email: f.lopez@gantalcala.org
Telephone +34610568963
Fax: +34955515045
PROJET PARTNERS:
Passaggi
onlus associazione
Trebisacce, Italy
Passaggi is a non profit association based in Italy
with a decennial experience in the field of non formal, informal education, and
culture promotion inspired by solidarity and respect. It counts staff (1/20)
ordinary members, mainly women, (20/100), trainees/learners participating in
courses and activities for all ages(100/200), plus a wide number of citizens
who take part to informal education and events. Initiatives are addressed to any age, with
particular focus to seniors and young adults, at local, national, European
level. The target groups are youth, women, seniors, immigrants.
Passaggi mainly
supports the weakest component of society; it undertakes to inspire active
ageing, to sustain gender equality and to foster women’s social development.
People envolved care about youth perspectives, gender equity, migrants’
inclusion because they are convinced that the making of the future society is
founded on them. Passaggi is characterized by great human capital and a big
development potential; it is well experienced in EU projects and is motivated
in joining qualified and dynamic partners in order to design innovative
proposals and tools, for the many and hard challenges occurring in our times
where cultural diversity, social injustice and moral disvalues risk to become
structural to European society.
Passaggi, in the
framework of non formal and informal education delivers several courses,
training activities as well as intervention in social and cultural contests.
The peculiar characteristic of the association is that it works in close
connection with trainees. They get and
donate to the community a mutual sustain to avoid drop out, marginalization.
Passaggi aims at
connecting people, it is a reference point for many unemployed, under employed
and NEET (not in education employment, training) people. Many unformal
activities, for soft skill achievement are organized: literacy education,
motivational workshops with gender perspective, women and youth
entrepreneurship, active citizenship, migrant inclusion. Passaggi cares of
sustainable development, well being and environmental education with the perspective of employability for
young and women and more serene aging people.
Passaggi approaches
the challenge of globalization proposing innovative and creative methodology
through researches and adequate tools, for that reason it promotes ITC training
courses for absolute beginners, art laboratories for women, families, youth,
seniors; culinary activities related to environmental education; cultural
heritage studies and activities, folk music.
Training offer
includes the following: ITC, languages, environmental and health education,
arts (theatre, painting, dance, photography), crafts, literacy education,
history, literature; they all result interconnected and suit the fulfilment for
learning demand of young and adults. Staff at Passaggi believe in
inter-generation activities and encourage the transmission of knowledge and
know how between youth and seniors.
The main goal is to
enable disadvantaged social groups and individuals bridging the gap by
acquiring new skill and abilities or recovering lost and inadequate ones, they
care for motivating trainees in order to reinforce their self-esteem and
confidence and the capacity to grow in social relationship and potentialities.
Subjects, knowledge and topics are
proposed are at different levels in order to satisfy the cultural needs
of a vast range of interests. Passaggi tries to enable trainees to enter the
working world, now inaccessible for the well know reasons of unemployment all
over Europe. Disabled people are welcome in courses and activities, for them
staff and volunteers provide special tutoring and care to foster their
integration. Young adults, adults, families, senior and local institutions are
encouraged to enter the European dimension, notwithstanding the social and
economic problems that invest our shores.
Passaggi activates
courses, workshops, conferences, training lessons, laboratories for basic
skills, creative activities, open panels for discussions on relevant topics and
active social participation in local democratic life. Most activities count on
inter-generational exchange, because the management, staff and volunteers
believe in the inter-relation between experience and innovation.
Web: www.passaggi.org
Contact: caterinadenardi@virgilio.it