Italy

Giosef Torino is an association of social promotion.
Giosef is the acronym derived from “GIOvani SEnza Frontiere”, “Youth Without Borders”. Being without frontiers is the strength to reach a better world, breaking the frame with no fear, looking beyond the appearances, stating our believes. We see in our work the opportunity to affirm Human Rights in all their aspects and contradictions, in order to promote a culture of anti-sexism and anti-racism, to counter all forms of discrimination and prejudice.
The core objectives pursued by our association are:
YOUTH WORK AND NON FORMAL EDUCATION: to produce social change through Non Formal Education on Human Rights;
INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH: to promote an anti-sexist, anti-racist culture against omo-lesbo-bi-transphobia, xenophobia, islamophobia and all forms of discrimination through an intersectional perspective;
INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATION: to promote participation and active citizenship of young people to counter social exclusion and to promote human, civil and social rights;
EUROMEDITERRENEAN COOPERATION: to promote the cooperation between European Countries and Partner Countries from the South Mediterranean regions for fostering social cohesion in Mediterranean area;
INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY: to promote international mobility and intercultural learning among youth.
Founded in 2004, Giosef Unito is actively working with Non Formal Education methodologies for young learners and since 2013 we have started to implement techniques coming from theatrical methodology in the frame of NFE. Our work is based on our certainty that new educational paradigms are needed in a fast changing society where Formal Education strategies cannot respond with the same pace to the recent challenges and developments, like the current migrants and refugees crisis in Europe.
Giosef Unito continued to cooperate with a large range of partners and interlocutors: we believe it is essential to create synergies between Formal and Non Formal Education organizations, third sector, mass media and public administrations in order to maximize the impact of our activities in line with the Agenda 2020 of the European Union.
Giosef Unito is striving for such joint effort among all the above mentioned stakeholders, keeping a permanent flow of communication, cooperation and debate around the main challenges related to the promotion of Human Rights. In order to maintain the widest perspective possible, we have developed a strong focus on intersectionality: we are fully convinced that we need to keep in mind all the identity components that contribute to each one’s self perception if we want to dismantle all the forms of discrimination. We are aware, for example, that it’s impossible to tackle islamophobia without considering the racist dynamics that lay under this specific discriminatory expression, as well as we cannot fight homophobia without analysing the traditionally constructed forms of sexism.
We completely agree with the key concept in Audre Lorde’s work: “there is no such thing as single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives”.

We see in our work the opportunity to affirm Human Rights in all their aspects and contradictions, in order to promote a culture of anti-sexism and anti-racism, to fight against homophobia, transphobia, lesbophobia and all forms of discrimination and prejudice.
The core objectives pursued by our association are:
1) INCLUSIVE CULTURE: to promote a culture of anti-sexism, anti-racism, against homo-lesbo-transphobia, xenophobia, islamophobia and all forms of discrimination;
2) EDUCATION AND CHANGE: to produce social change through Non-Formal Education on Human Rights;
3) INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY: to promote international mobility and intercultural learning among young people;
4) INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATION: to promote and active youth participation and citizenship, combating social exclusion.
 

Mission: defense, promotion and valorization of the artistic activities, historical and of architectural; defense and valorization of nature and the environment, with collection and urban waste recycling; formation and instruction. Objective: restoration and revalorization of the architectural heritage and natural environmental protection; education and sensitizing of the young people to the architectural and natural heritage; local awakening of this inheritance with promotion of initiatives which use these goods like alive elements of the contemporary world, in order to guarantee survival for the future of it; diffusion and information of the objectives of association; experience sharing with Italian and foreign associations which have similar goals; search for financings for the operation of the activities.

Diffusion of culture and promotion of social rights. Particular interest in the world of arts and cinema, especially of social inspiration.

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To promote women's rights related to female genital mutilation and to provide education for health and social professionals about complex gender issues.
To empower women, holistic care

“Glocal Factory” – social Co-operative was born on January 8th, 2018, as a natural evolution of the Association having the same name, founded in 2015 by a group of experts and volunteers – with different age and studies’ background - engaged in European projects in the social and educational fields. Some of its members can boast an experience of many decades in laying out and implementing EU funded projects.
Both the Association and the Co-operative focus their attention on:
- Innovation of contents and methods in formal, non- formal and informal learning for children, adolescents and adults;
- School, work and social inclusion of disadvantaged and vulnerable persons and groups;
- Fight against racism and xenophobia;
- Opposition to the violence against women and children;
- Well-being of young people, quality of youth work;
- Experimentation of new forms of Communitarian and Generative Welfare;
- Promotion of “social economy” and sustainable development.
On these topics the “system Glocal Factory” (Association and Co-operative):
• Realizes international training for teachers, trainers, adult educators and youth workers. At the moment our catalogue include training weeks on: Post – Millennials discomfort; innovative didactic methodologies (notably “Flipped Classroom”); adult education for emarginated people; coaching and “emotional intelligence” in teaching; education to self-entrepreneurship.
• Promotes European projects, working with a wide network of Italian and European public institutions, universities, associations and NGOs. In 2018 Glocal Factory is partner of 4 action / research projects funded by the EU programme “Erasmus Plus”:
o MiGreat! – creation of new tools for refugees and migrants ECVET (Continous Vocational Education and Training) and APL(Acknowledgement of Previous Learning) – www.mi-great.eu
o TrainIot – innovation of school curricula in Informatics and “Internet of Things” – https://train-iot.erasmus-plus
o CultNet – improvement of professional skills of youth workers, notably capacity to use culture and arts to facilitate inclusion of more disadvantaged youngsters – www.cult-net.eu
o Grandmas’ stories – methods and tools for inter-cultural education, using stories told by migrant grandmothers – http://grandmas-story.eu
• Organizes events and seminars, in co-operation with prestigious research centers, like the conference – webinar held on January 18th, 2018 in Verona, Latina, Athens and Thessaloniky on the theme “Contamin-A(c)tion in Europe”, to reflect in a critical and multi-disciplinary way on the European identity, its roots and its possible development.

Furthermore, some members of the Co-Operative are personally engaged in the implementation of other projects funded by Erasmus Plus and concerning the topic of fight against Early School Leaving, and by the AMIF programme to promote resettlement and inclusion of refugees and asylum seekers.