Stowarzyszenie Twórczego Dialogu

National Network
Poland
Address

os. Przyjaźń 118, 01-355 Warszawa, Polska
Warsaw
Poland

Telephone
+48502851374
E-Mail
projektykultury@gmail.com
Mobile Phone
+48502522243
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2011
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. International/Cultural relations
General Information
Association of Creative Dialogue is a young organisation, created in October 2011. We consist of experienced people full of commitment to our mission which is creating, supporting and promoting culture, art and dialogue in every dimension. Our goals are: promotion and forming of creative dialogue between cultures and nations on the basis of art; promoting integration and social dialogue with cultural animation; education and educational action to promote tolerance and intercultural encounters, including the operation of the disability and support and integration of young artists; maintenance and dissemination of national tradition, cultivating Polish culture and development of national, civic and cultural awareness; promoting European integration, developing contacts and cooperation; enhancement and development of interdisciplinary knowledge about the cultures of the world.
Mission and Objectives

Association is taking initiatives to support the work of professional and amateur artists, including children and youth. Its mission is to promote artists; organise intercultural exchanges and support of travel, particularly by organizing trips, creative workshops, lectures, exhibitions, performances, competitions and other cultural events; organise training courses, conferences, scientific sessions, lectures within the scope of the Association's activities in the country and abroad; cooperation with state institutions, local governments and NGOs, business sector, mass media and other cultural institutions in the country and abroad.

Main Projects / Activities

Association currently is organising three artistic projects. One of which will be held this week (21st April). The project is an artistic meeting to support organising of artistic workshops for the Kurdistan children. During event there will be public fund-raising, concerts, auction, fair and games for children.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

Our contribution will be new, fresh and full of commitment ideas for the interesting projects that we would like to organize with partners from the ALF Network.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

Association of Creative Dialogue wants to join the ALF Network because we would like to start the international cooperation with the artists, people of culture and other organizations.
Using the experience of the ALF Network organizations we wish to promote the most efficiently Polish culture in Europe and European culture in Poland .

Contact (1) Full Name
Grzegorz Mirowski
Head of the organisation
Izabela Pajdała-Kusińska
Contact (2) Full Name
Paulina Calińska

Drugo more

National Network
Croatia
Address

Omladinska 4
Rijeka
Croatia

Telephone
0038551212957
Fax
0038551212957
E-Mail
davor@drugo-more.hr
E-Mail (2)
petra@drugo-more.hr
E-Mail (3)
ivana@drugo-more.hr
Mobile Phone
0385915484123
Mobile Phone (other)
00385915644964
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1999
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
Drugo more is a small-scale institution with 3 permanent employees. The governing body is an Assembly with 14 members. The members of the Assembly are all members of the association (mostly artists and other cultural workers). The Assembly gives general directions (strategic and operative plans, adopting annually reports and budget) for the associations and has meetings once a year. The organisation's President has the responsibility to make operative decisions. 5 of the Assembly members are Coordinators, taking a more active role in the programming of the organisation, meeting on a weekly basis. We are organising performing art festival Zoom and interdisciplinary festival Mine Yours Ours, we are implementing sociological research in the field of culture and we are organising educational programs from the art theory and cultural management. We are leding partner in a project Balcan can contemporary that is funded from the IPA program and we are partners in CORNERS project which us funded from EACEA. Our main partners are Maska, Ljubljana (SLO); Pogon, Zagreb; Domino, Zagreb (HR); TKH, Beograd (RS); Tanzelarija, Sarajevo (BiH); Qendra multimedija, Priština (KOS); Association Kulturanova, Novi Sad (RS), SU Molekula, Rijeka (HR); SU Klubtura, Zagreb (HR); Bunker, Ljubljana (SLO); Intercult (SWE) Drugo more receives regular funds from the City of Rijeka and the Ministry of Culture. From the City of Rijeka, we usually receive approximately 30.000 euros and from the Ministry of Culture approximately 25.000 euros per year. We have a 3-year grant from the National Foundation for Civil Society and we are currently receiving 20.000 euros per year - this grant will expire at the end of 2012. Also, we are the leading partner of the project 'Balcan Can Contemporary' that is implemented by 8 organizations. For that project we have received a grant of 296.000 Euros from the European Commission, DG Enlargement (IPA). Also, we are co-organizer (lead organizer is Intercult from Stockholm) of the project 'Four Corners' that has received a grant of 200.000 Euros from the EU Commission through the program Culture 2007.
Mission and Objectives

Drugo more (the Other Sea) is a non-profit organization working in the field of culture. Most of our programs are thematic and we are trying to explore certain topics of social interest. During that exploration we are producing artistic and theoretical programs that give further insight into the topics in question. In addition, we facilitate exchange of information between local and international artists, experts, students and a wider audience. We achieve this mainly through production in the field of visual and performing arts; promotion and implementation of research in the field of culture; organization of partipatory and educational events such as conferences and seminars.

Main Projects / Activities

The main activities of Drugo more are: production in the field of visual and performing arts, promotion – we are organising performing art festival Zoom and interdisciplinary festival Mine Yours Ours, we are implementing sociological research in the field of culture and we are organizing educational programs from the art theory and cultural management.
We are leading partner in a project Balcan can contemporary that is funded from the IPA program and we are partners in CORNERS project that is funded from EACEA.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

As one of the members we can connect with other organization in Croatia and make some partnership project based in Croatia but also connected to the Euro-Mediterranean Region.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

As the Anna Lindh Foundation facilitates and supports the action of civil society of the Euro-Mediterranean Region we are interested to expand our partnership and activities trough that region.
Some of activities that the Foundation’s programme is focused are also Education and Youth, Culture and Arts and we feel that we can contribute and expand our activities that are connected to mentioned fields.

Contact (1) Full Name
Davor Mišković
Head of the organisation
Davor Mišković
Contact (2) Full Name
Petra Corva

esterni

National Network
Italy
Address

via Piranesi, 10
20137 Milano
(Italy)

Milan
Italy

Telephone
+39 02713613
Fax
+39 02713613
E-Mail
consulting@esterni.org
E-Mail (2)
marta@esterni.org
Mobile Phone
+39 3335349207
Organisation Type
Other
Year of Establishment
1995
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. International/Cultural relations
  4. Media
  5. Youth and education
General Information
esterni is a cultural association established in Milan in 1995. It has a staff of 15 people working on projects concerning various themes as design, social responsability, inclusion, cinema, architecture, communitary development and local food. The total budget per year is around 1.000.000 euro. The association's projects are funded through 3 different sources: public fundings (main institutions: Regione Lombardia, Comune di Milano, Provincia di Milano, Ministero della Cultura and Ministero della Gioventù), cultural entities (foundations, cultural associations, consulates, embassies) e sponsorships. Actions: concrete projects, workshops, communication projects, events and lectures. Main parners: Media - UE, FAI (Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano), Fondazione Cariplo and Municipality of Milan.
Mission and Objectives

esterni develops ideas, projects, interventions, and designs creative solutions for cities and public spaces. All the interventions respond to existing problems and are conceived to improve life in the cities, relations among people, dialogue among different cultures, to create new spaces for socialization and cultural development.

Main Projects / Activities

Since 1995 esterni has been developing cultural projects, ideas, interventions, ideas in many fields: from public design to cinema, from music to art, from social issues to urban regeneration. The main activities are:
. yearly esterni's productions as Milano Film Festival (www.milanofilmfestival.it), Public Design Festival (www.publicdesignfestival.org) and audiovisiva (www.audiovisiva.com);
. single events, interventions, projects thought for the public spaces;
. projects on commission developed with provate entities, public bodies and public
institutions.

Contact (1) Full Name
Marta Savoldelli
Head of the organisation
Lorenzo Castellini

Taverna Est

National Network
Italy
Address

via San SEbastiano, 28
80134, Napoli, Italy

Napoli
Italy

Telephone
+39 0813653781
E-Mail
progettomorgana@libero.it
E-Mail (2)
sarasole.notarbartolo@yahoo.it
Mobile Phone
+39 3934909831
Mobile Phone (other)
+39 3891503623
Organisation Type
Other
Year of Establishment
2004
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
Taverna Est is a Cultural Association founded by the director and playwright Sara Sole Notarbartolo in 2004, it consist of four founding partners. Every year we produce projects in collaboration with many artists and other partners (Festival Theatre, Theatre Companies, other cultural projects). Our budgetary resources are less than 30,000 € a year and come from the Festivals and other events with which we collaborate. We make theater workshops, seminars, theatrical performances, street art festival. We have worked with: Mercadante Teatro Stabile of Naples, The Theatre Centre Friche of Marseilles, Naples Theatre Festival Italy, Egiptian Village of Mostar, the City of Naples, German Istitute of Culture "Goethe", and many Italian Festivals.
Mission and Objectives

The association has character of solidarity and not-for-profit organization, is nonpartisan and apolitical and has socio-cultural purposes. The association is made up of different professionals working in the field of art, crafts and entertainment: actors, directors, costume designers, set designers, choreographers, dancers, stage technicians, painters, film and multimedia operators, free-thinkers.
The association is a theater association. The association carries out its statutory goals through the organization (in collaboration with public and private institutions, associations, groups etc..) reviews of performances, workshops, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, regular and special education activities, vocational training courses , movies, audio-visual and multimedia production shows and other events that may affect the arts, crafts and entertainment, as well as other activities related to its institutional purposes in favor of people at a disadvantage: people with physical and mental suffering from diseases involving non-temporary impairments, poor, abandoned children, orphans or in situations of maladjustment and deviance, refugees, immigrants have-nots.
Promote and implement cultural and leisure activities such as theater, music, cinema, photography, painting, sculpture, tourism, seminars and conferences.
Activities and dissemination of information science and culture. Organize spettcaoli, exhibitions conferences, seminars, concerts, and anything else deemed necessary to achieve the purpose of association.
To promote international exchanges with other European Union countries and between EU and non EU countries.migrants have-nots.
Promote and implement cultural and leisure activities such as theater, music, cinema, photography, painting, sculpture, tourism, seminars and conferences.
Activities and dissemination of information science and culture. Organize spettcaoli, exhibitions conferences, seminars, concerts, and anything else deemed necessary to achieve the purpose of association.
To promote international exchanges with other European Union countries and between EU and non EU countries. All our members are both social trainers and artists and regularly organise workshops and seminars in the performing arts, working with the youth living in disadvantaged areas.This is why performances and stagings are enmeshed with the social realities of marginalisation, violence and hardship experienced by the many in the poorer neighbourhoods of the cities.

Main Projects / Activities

In 2005, our first show - 'O Mare (The Sea) - addressed the hot topic of illegal migrants in through a dream language, written and performed in Italian, in Albanian, Argentina, and in sign language, the work was admitted to the selections for the Ustica Award and won the "Premio Scenario" Award.
Our second job - Santa Lucia della Bella Speranza (St. Lucy's Holy Hope) - was staged in 2007 and has addressed the problem of childcare, in reaction to the passage by Italian Parliament of the Law. 149 by providing for the closure and dismantling of all orphanages in the country by the end of the year. Increasingly oriented to explore social issues through our work, we traveled to Bosnia, where we organized a theater workshop in an orphanage in the city of Mostar. Based on this experience, we shot the short film Super Dobro and wrote the subject of Saint Luciadella Bella Speranza.
In May 2008, our play La Tentazione won the ETI - New Creative Award, the award has supported the project and has secured the cooperation of the Teatro Stabile of Naples Mercadante and the Spring Festival the Theatre.
From July 2010 to March 2011 Tavern East has developed his play through the new "Faust" of some residences and workshops. The firs step was taken in Marseille (La Belle de Mai The Friche), then Palermo (The Vicar) and Naples in the end. The project is also supported by the Goethe Institut.
In July 2011 Tavern East will make its debut with his new play "Faust" at the Theatre Festival Italy.
During 2009, 2010 and 2011 Tavern East was the main organization behind the event is open "Neapolitan Ramblas" - an outdoor festival of street artists and art exhibitions, including the program of the Theatre Festival Italy (Naples, 2009, 2010, 2011).In September 2011 Sara Sun Notarbartolo has started working on the project Morgana, a project that includes workshops and performances in the cities of the Mediterranean made ​​with artists of different countries. This project, we hope, will give birth in the summer of 2013, the show "Morgana mirages and memories of travelers in the Mediterranean"

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

In Italy, our company will be happy to meet travelers and artists with projects similar to ours, to create exchanges and sharing of ideas and projects.
We hope that our project "Morgana" is also a way to bring artists here in Italy: actors, playwrights, directors from other cities and make a play performed and written in different languages ​​of the Mediterranean.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

The characteristic of our association has always been to mix languages ​​and art forms. Ever since our foundation in every show we have collaborated with artists of different origins (Italy, South America, Albania, Bosnia and Eregovina, France).
We have always tried to create a network of social and cultural exchange with other countries. We believe that being part of the ALF network will help us improve these objectives and to find good partnerships.

Contact (1) Full Name
Sara Notarbartolo
Head of the organisation
Sara Notarbartolo
Contact (2) Full Name
Gilda Notarbartolo

Etnobarometro (Ethnobarometer)

National Network
Italy
Address

via della Giustiniana, 301
Rome
Italy

Telephone
+390633614006
Fax
+39063321175
E-Mail
ethnobarometer@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
alessandro.silj@gmail.com
Mobile Phone
+393357047196
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1997
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
General Information
No profit research association. One full time research assistant, part time secretary, partners or correspondents in 12 European countries, Turkey, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. Average annual budgetary resources €100,000. Sources: private foundations. All projects organized in collaboration with local research institutions and/or individual experts in the concerned country. Started operating in 1997. Registered as a legal no profit association in 2006.
Mission and Objectives

Monitoring and analysis of
1) immigration flows, integration processes and multicultural policies and practice in Europe,
2) interethnic relations, human rights and democratization in the Balkans, Turkey, North Africa and the Middle East,
3) dialogue and collaboration between Europe and Muslim-majority countries.

Main Projects / Activities

Integration of immigrants in main European cities. The crisis of multiculturalism in Europe. Islam in/of Europe.
The impact of 9/11 on the life and status of Muslims in Europe and the United States.
Minorities and ethnic conflict, political and social developments in South East Europe (in particular Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Romania).
Turkey: the Kurdish issue, reforms and EU accession. Change in Muslim-majority countries: focusing on the role of women, family structures, human rights, democratization, the role of media. Europe’s response to the “Arab Spring”.

Contact (1) Full Name
Alessandro Silj, Director
Head of the organisation
Christian Giordano, President
Contact (2) Full Name
Gianpaolo Derossi

R.E.E.s.

National Network
Italy
Address

Via Olivella n52, 04028
Mitnturno
Italy

Telephone
0039 0771614630
Fax
0039 0771614630
E-Mail
rarearthelementsLT@gmail.com
Mobile Phone (other)
0039 3299620132
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2010
Fields of Activity
  1. Environment/Sustainable development
General Information
Structure of the organization: Board of Direction Local projects direction European Projects Direction Staff: 2 Volunteers: 10 Budget resources available in one year: between 5000 and 20000 euro, in this first years of activity Source of funding: European and national projects. Fundrising activities. Modality of action: periodical exchange bazars, youth exchanges, seminars about natural life style, local projects and campaigns in the schools. Main partners: local municipality, regional natural park "Riviera di Ulisse", 2 other local organizations.European partners: European Village (Greece), EMYAN, EuroMed Youth Platform, European Youth Forum.
Mission and Objectives

We act at different levels, our motto is “think globally act locally”.
The main aim that the organization seeks to achieve is to spread the ideas and to support actions concerning sustainable development and natural life style.
We act to educate through experience so to create:
- a sustainable development culture at 360 degrees
- social responsibility toward respect for the environment and nature
- a natural and healthy life style
- a support to personal development: coaching/training)
- mobility opportunities for disadvantaged young people living in rural areas
- networks of collaboration with the scope of implementing projects in the fields of fair trade, local alternative currency systems (time banking), social solidarity, community building, ethical consumption, etc...

Main Projects / Activities

Youth mobility promotion.
Creation of thematic network in the EuroMed area on the topics of sustainable development and education for sustainable development.
Local projects: education and sensitization toward natural life style and sustainable everyday life behaviours and habits.Campaign and seminars.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We can take part and spread all the Fundation campaigns in the schools and through our local organizations' and public entities network. We are based in a quite isolated area and we are the only one organization of this kind based in this area. We can also participate in contributing to the creation of a specific session of the fundation treating about Sustainable development and natural life style.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We would like to join the ALF network to come in contact with EuroMed organizations and networks and to start thematic activities with the support of the Fundation about sustainable development and education for sustainable development. We are cnvinced that the creation of a stable culture of peace passes through a sustainable and healthy building process of our societies.

Contact (1) Full Name
Simona Rossi
Head of the organisation
Simona Rossi
Contact (2) Full Name
Angela Rossi

Le Barbe della Gioconda - Red Latinoamericada de Juejo - ReLaJo

National Network
Italy
Address

Via del Mandrione 22 - 00181 Roma
Roma
Italy

Telephone
0645425237
E-Mail
relajo.italia@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
va.lentina@tiscali.it
E-Mail (3)
lebarbedellagioconda@gmail.com
E-Mail (4)
isadorabergami@gmail.com
Mobile Phone
3386289722
Mobile Phone (other)
3395718554
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
2009
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
General Information
"Barbe della Gioconda" Association was born n 2009 and it is the Italian reference association of ReLaJo (Red Latinoamericana de Juego - "Latin América Network of Game") - for the promotion of Ludopedagogy, as recognized by the Centre for Training and Investigation “La Mancha” (www.mancha.org.uy). Active people working on a volunteers basis for the association are 8 people located in Rome, Bologna and Florence. In 2011 the budgetary resource available were 3.000,00 euro. Sources of funding are private and public sources and individual donations. Modalities of actions are: workshops, training corses, international exchanges, summer schools. Main partners are: pubblic institutions as: Rome Province, Naples Town administration, European Union, etc. and volunteers local associations as women associations and ASGI (Associazione Studi Giuridici sull'Immigrazione).
Mission and Objectives

ince 2005 the association "Barbe della Gioconda" is working to promote Ludopedagogy, a non formal education and participative method used as a tool to strength the participation and the change of unequal power relationships. It has been imported from Latin America in Italy, with great success. It has been developed to fight against Latin America dictatorships, summing the strategic element of "playing" to the experience of Freire's Popular Education. Through “the game” this method facilitates the educational work, by involving the participants and encouraging the opening towards a different attitude from the usual one. Moreover, it stimulates the curiosity and the necessity to recognize the “other”, to develop the willing to actively participate and to risk. The method of Ludopedagogy allows people to recognize the value of emotions, body and affectivity to better understand ourselves, the relationships and the reality.
Based on the potentialities of playing as a metaphor and vehicle of knowledge, this educative method sums the individual and the collective experience, opening the possibilities to try and to develop different and unusual solutions to social issues in a protected space - the playing space.

Main Projects / Activities

To pursue these aims, the Association “Barbe della Gioconda” carry on the following activities:
to organize seminars, conferences, pedagogical courses and trainings;
to establish relations of collaboration with other Italian and foreign organizations, having local, national and international nature, with similar aims;
to mutually exchange best practices and facilitate contacts among the organizations themselves;
to set up a multi-country project to promote the power of playing in order to build a different kind of participation.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We can contribute offering our experience in running seminars with participative methodologies and our experience of non formal education with young people, adult people, migrants and women rights issues.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

ince 2005, “Barbe della Gioconda” is working on Adult Education, with the aim to rise awareness and train adult people to actively participate on the issues of democracy, sustainable development, human rights, not only in Italy but also in Russia, Egypt and Sarawi Refugees camps. Moreover, “Barbe della Gioconda” has worked on Non-Formal Youth Education in many Latin America countries, Spain and Italy.
Actually, the association uses Ludopedagogy method to promote exchange of best practices and cooperation between organizations of different European countries and, in Italy, to promote migrant and refugees rights.

Contact (1) Full Name
Tina Nastasi
Head of the organisation
Pescetti Valentina
Contact (2) Full Name
Isadora Bergami

Scuola Popolare di Musica Donna Olimpia

National Network
Italy
Address

Via Donna Olimpia 30
Roma
Italy

Telephone
0039 (0)6 58202369
Fax
0039 (0)6 53271878
E-Mail
box@donnaolimpia.it
E-Mail (2)
galtieri@donnaolimpia.it
Mobile Phone
0039 373 7292425
Organisation Type
Other
Year of Establishment
1976
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information
Cultural Organization, 7 people executive staff, 3 employed, over 50 teacher and worker. Budget for year close to 800.000 €. First sources of funding private, second public advise. International project are organized with exchanges, conferences and congress, workshop, scholarship, publication. Main partner was Comune di Roma, Magnificat Institut Jerusalem, Edward Said National Conservatory of Music Palestine, Temple University USA
Mission and Objectives

We dream a society where the music, education and training be the focus of the civil life. Where the structure of Education be multidisciplinaries and learning music be a right for all people.
A society in which music is an universal communication channel that it reduces the distances between the people, the different age-brackets and ability, the ethnic differences, the religions.

Main Projects / Activities

Music courses for children, youth people. Workshop, training course, conference, congress, festival, concert.
Main international project was: Notes of Peace in Middle East and the organization of ECME and MISTEC international conference 2008 in Italy for International Society for Music education.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

Our organization was founder of different and important network of music teaching in Italy, like Orff-Schulwerk Italiano (500 people and 35 organization associated), Music in Crib Network (14 organization), Music Education National Forum (22 organization), Music School network and other. With our 550 associated, 3.500 students we are a node in the country about these theme

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

Because our Vision and Mission is very close with 4D strategy Dialogue, Diversity, Democracy and Development

Contact (1) Full Name
Francesco Galtieri
Head of the organisation
Stefano Ribeca

Cooperativa sociale Millepiedi onlus

National Network
Italy
Address

Vico Merello n° 11 09017 Sant'Antioco CA - Sardinia
Sant'Antioco
Italy

Telephone
+390781840717
Fax
+390781840717
E-Mail
coopmillepiedi@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
coopmillepiedi@pec.it
Mobile Phone
+393288836251
Mobile Phone (other)
+393473626183
Organisation Type
Other
Year of Establishment
1992
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information
"Cooperativa sociale Millepiedi onlus" is a social no profit organization and works with pubblic institutions and private. Millepiedi cooperative organization offers: social, educational services and projects focused on ecological and sustenible ideas.
Mission and Objectives

Social, educational and ecological projects with children and young people

Main Projects / Activities

Educational and domiciliar service with problematic young people; aggregation and ludic activities with children; baby parking; ECOLU' - ecological and creativity project

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We can give our contribute studying projects and activities to improve our culture, our social community with the Network and to create new opportunities and possibilities of growth.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

Because we need a more large visions and perspectives to work and live; we need to have more network to improve our projects and mission, now and in the future.

Contact (1) Full Name
Marzia Varaldo
Contact (2) Full Name
Alessandra Madeddu

PARSEC COOPERATIVA SOCIALE A RL

National Network
Italy
Address

VIALE JONIO, 331 - 00141
ROME
Italy

Telephone
06 86209991
Fax
06 8611067
E-Mail
info@cooperativaparsec.it
Mobile Phone
+393483038734
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1996
Fields of Activity
  1. Others
General Information
Parsec Cooperative, founded in 1996, has a social base of 27 working members, including 4 permanent employees, and 47 not permanent collaborators. The governing body is a Board of Directors, of 3 members, elected by the Assembly of members, which retains the decision making power. Parsec is organized in thematic areas, involving the persons in charge for projects and services. The Cooperative manages a number of social projects and develops advocacy activities through exchanges, seminars and conferences. In the last three years, the annual turnover was about € 2,000,000.00. Major donors are: Lazio Region, Italian Ministry of Interior, Province of Rome, European Union The Cooperative is a founding member of Parsec Consortium and belongs to different networks, such as: CNCA (National Coordination of Host Communities), REVES (European Network of Cities and Regions for the Social Economy), ENMP (European Network Male Prostitution), EAPN Italy (Italian branch of the European Anti Poverty Network.)
Mission and Objectives

The mission of Parsec Cooperative is to promote social inclusion, according to universalistic principles of solidarity and equity and to a participatory model of local welfare.
The organization is engaged in identifying the evolving social needs and giving an effective response trough innovative practices and projects, also in coordination with public, institutional and productive actors and organized citizenship.
The specific objectives of Parsec activities are:
prevention and harm reduction associated to drugs consumption
promotion of wellness and empowerment of children and young people; support to parenthood
fight against trafficking in human beings and protection of victims
overcoming the various forms of social exclusion
social mediation and conflict resolution, participatory territorial security
social inclusion and intercultural dialogue
The actions undertaken include a multidisciplinary approach, emphasizing the action research methodology and the interlocution between the person, his reference networks and the cultural context, in which he lives and acts.

Main Projects / Activities

Parsec Cooperative has been developing a number of work fields and projects, many of which are highly innovative.
Prevention/fight to addictions:
Harm Reduction services (shelters, communities in the short term, street units of emergency and prevention)
Prevention in schools and youth settings.
Interventions to support families
Promotion of children/youth welfare:
Aggregation Centers for children, children-oriented empowerment and enhancement of their resources.
Tutoring to youth organizations.
Consulting Activities for families
Fight against prostitution and trafficking:
Harm reduction street unit,
Social and work reintegration projects for victims of trafficking
Social Mediation:
Intervention of social mediation and participatory territorial security in different Municipalities of Rome.
Social inclusion and intercultural dialogue:
Intervention in schools and territories to promote intercultural dialogue
Projects aimed to support vulnerable immigrants as Refugees
Advocacy activities:
Conferences, seminars and courses on parsec issues of intervention

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

The contribution of Cooperative Parsec to the Anna Lindh Foundation National Network is primarily in terms of areas of intervention.
In fact, beside its commitment in intercultural dialogue, conflict mediation and integration of migrants into host societies, Parsec has a wide experience in some areas that in our opinion are still under-represented in the ALF network, such as the protection of victims of trafficking in human beings for purposes of sexual and labor exploitation.
In this context, we have developed various interventions aimed at promoting and protecting human rights, particularly of women and children (for example the projects "Stop FGM" a research, training and awareness project on the practice of female genital mutilation, or "Exit route: training, networking, interventions against trafficking ").
Another possible positive contribution could be in our capital of networks.
As above described, in these networks, shared by public and private actors of civil society, Parsec operates also with the aims of promoting innovation and policy interventions (eg. Ad Hoc Group Prostitution and Trafficking constituted in the CNCA)
This set of relationships could help to give prominence to initiatives taken in ANF Network, as well as be a workshop for new initiatives.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

Parsec Cooperative was created in Rome by a group of social researchers developing the methodology tested on action research, an approach to social analysis strongly intervention-oriented.
Since 1996 the sphere of activities has gradually extended and, beside local intervention, Parsec has developed projects with a national impact, accompanied by awareness raising, training and advocacy. Great attention was paid to networking activities in the various thematic areas of intervention and to the development of dialogue between different actors of civil society, as a means of building really shared policies
The actual globalization of deterritorialized flows of finance, has a concrete complement in the globalization of flows of people, bearer of cultures, aspirations and needs
Taking care of a person and its complexity, also, means retracing these migratory routes, re-weave the network of relationships and cultures. We are interested in doing this by restoring the current action-research methodology, broadening the context of investigation and, therefore, the intervention.
Parsec Cooperative shares the Anna Lindh Foundation aims of creating a dialogue between cultures and of encouraging the development of civil society. The ALF network seems to us as a natural place where to increase the value of our experience and methodologies, integrating them into a context of wide relationships, in order to develop shared projects with other organizations of the network.

Contact (1) Full Name
MAURA MUNERETTO
Head of the organisation
MAURA MUNERETTO (PRESIDENT)