Young people, social actors, music and Palermo are the main protagonists of the documentary, focused in how the youth lives the city and the main issues that affect them. Through the description of the different realities at Palermo, a strong component of social education and solutions for the future are also included in the video.

“Crossing the Line” is a project under the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission. The Dutch, Romanian and Bulgarian partner organizations of CE.SIE are developing contemporary the same kind of documentaries in their cities. For 2011, a meeting is planned in Palermo with all participants, during which will be projected the film “Crossing the Line”, produced by the various pieces of the documentaries filmed in each country.

For further information:   sarah.beal@cesie.org or www.crossingtheline.eu

Crossing the Line Palermo versione finale I

Crossing the Line Palermo versione finale II

COMPARATIVE REPORT ON THE IMPACTS OF MIGRATION ON THE EDUCATIONAL SETTING AND THE POSSIBILITIES THAT GUARANTEE EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN WITH AND WITHOUT MIGRATION BACKGROUND

based on the national needs assessments conducted by the MIRACLE consortium in Germany, Hungary, Italy, Malta and Slovenia.

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The aim of the research was to map the needs of primary school teachers in 5 European countries teaching migrant children in order:

• to analyze the source of challenges they are facing in their daily work,
• to map supportive actions that teachers, migrant and majority (non-migrant)) children would require,
• to suggest potential themes for an international teacher training,
• to propose topics for pedagogical materials related to migration and intercultural dialogue for primary school pupils.

Methodology

National needs assessments were based on the primary analysis of:

• questionnaires filled in by teachers working in mixed classes1 with migrant and non-migrant children -altogether 106 questionnaires were analyzed,
• interviews with experts in teacher training and intercultural education-altogether 12 interviews were conducted,
• available teacher training courses on the national and international level,
• the national, regional and local curricula -depending on the educational context.

Structure of the report

The report:

• first, analyses the challenges faced by teachers teaching in heterogeneous classes and offers concrete solutions to meet these challenges,
• then, it offers a comprehensive list of activities and measures that could ease the integration of migrant pupils,
• after, it moves onto the issue of the international teacher training and suggests concrete modules for the MIRACLE training course (that will take placen 17 – 21 October 2011 in Berlin, Germany),
• finally, it proposes themes related to migration and intercultural education that could be connected to the curricular requirements and would answer to the needs of majority and minority pupils.

The report is available for download here.

For further information about the project read the brochure in attachment or contact: luisa.ardizzone@cesie.org

This project is a meeting between young people around the discovering and valorisation of traditional plays, that are tools for our learning, socialisation and intercultural dialogue.

We are looking for 4 participants (max. 25 years old) and 1 group leader (max 30 years old). The group leader will participate in the Advance Planning Visit that will take place from the 2nd to the 5th of September.

Costs

APV: travel, board and lodging covered 100%

Exchange:

70% Travel costs covered

100%Board and Lodging covered

€30 participation fee

If you would like ti participate please send your candidature before the 23rd of August

The first project phase of Need Analysis is completed The results can be consulted and downloaded on http://www.clarity-project.eu/publicdownloads.html

Specifically this project will also promote intercultural dialogue and creativity, so the next activity will be: the organisation of an intercultural event to promote active European citizenship and the twinning of cities with the support of the Europe for Citizens programme, the creation of a manual of good practices from the project partners that promote integration and interculturality, including the new projects born through the partnership of CREINTWIN, and disseminate the opportunities for twinned cities in Europe to create events with support from the European Commission.

If you are interested in participating in this project or want to know more about town twinning please contact Angela Martinez: angela.martinez@cesie.org

Web site: www.creintwin.org

There were attending participants from all the network countries, 10 from Romania, 16 from Portugal, 13 from Spain, 10 from Turkey, 11 from Italy.

The teaching modules were about Basic concepts about drug consumption, Family prevention, Community prevention and School prevention. The course was structured through four lessons by module: Theoretical content, Practical exercises, Self-assessment questionnaire, Forum and ending with a final test.

The e-course will be available on an e-book with the possibility to be downloaded by each partners’ website by the month of November 2010.

http://eneedd.eu

CE.S.I.E, is pleased to present you the result of the local action published soon in language versions Italian/English, French, Arabic.

The “Pagine Colorate – The Colorful pages” – (kind of migrant focused Yellow Pages) is a guide addressed to all migrants and refugees living in Palermo, as well as to institutions, support centres and any kind of offices providing services active in this field in the City of Palermo.

We realized that immigrants are often not fully aware of all services, facilities and opportunities available to them for a proper integration process due to their language barriers and a precarious knowledge of the urban network.

It is to answer this need and to make the situation clearer and more accessible to newcomers, that CE.S.I.E has proposed to collect all these information in a single guide, to create a sort of “actors-book” of associations for the benefit of all citizens.

CE.S.I.E. would like to thank Nomads and Migrants Office- Social and Welfare Services Area of the Municipality of Palermo for having contributed in our mapping and cataloging of Palermo’s associations/institutions working in field of migration.

For more information please contact Sarah Beal , project coordinator at : sarah.beal@cesie.org or visit www.cesie.org or www.crossingtheline.eu

The objective of the project was to create photographic works of the city of Berlin seen by young people from other cultures and to learn about the city through new points of view, non-problematic, as always happens analyzing the city, but positive. The aim of the project was to promote intercultural exchange and social inclusion by using the meeting, the dialogue and the city as main instruments.