Vocational Training

“Crossing the Line” (Palermo), the final cut

“Crossing the Line” (Palermo), the final cut

The final cut of the film “Crossing the Line” is now available in Youtube, divided in two parts. It follows a common structure as for the other partners of the project and through its 26 minutes of length you can see the whole path that the working team and the participants had to make to [...]

Handmade Creative Thinking, meeting in London

Handmade Creative Thinking, meeting in London

I was held in London the second project meeting of Handmade Creative Thinking (LLP-Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation), attended by the partners: CE.S.I.E (coordinators), Capture Arts (London), EuroMed Connect (Malta) and Seneca (Bologna). Objectives of the the meeting were: analyse the first phase of the project and planning the work for the following stages; [...]

VOIP: Training for Over 50, overcoming prejudices and face the challenge of an aging European population.

This is what it sets out the European Project “VoIP”: identifying the needs of employers and workers and establishing a curriculum centered on the knowledge that “make a difference in the labor market”. The European project “VoIP” aims to identify and satisfy the learning needs of workers and unemployed people over 50, moving from those [...]

Handmade Creative Thinking

Handmade Creative Thinking

The research sessions of the project “Handmade Creative Thinking” with craftsmen, artists, educators and students have finished, during which we analysed the creative learning needs of the participants (20 in total) through practical activities, discussions and questionnaires , always using the techniques of Creative Thinking. The objectives of these meetings were: iInform participants about the [...]

“Crossing the Line – Palermo”, editing phase

“Crossing the Line – Palermo”, editing phase

The film “Crossing the Line – Palermo” is coming to an end. After twelve meetings during May, the editing team has more than 15 hours of audiovisual material with which they will done a montage for the final documentary. The young participants coming from La Noce, Ciaculli, Brancaccio, Ciaculli and Via Messina Marina have spent [...]

Film “Crossing the Line”

Film “Crossing the Line”

“Crossing the Line” (“Across the Line”) is a project that results in a documentary on the lives of young people from different European cities. It gets its name because it was originally filmed in Liverpool, a city where there is an imaginary border between the north and the south of the city. In Palermo there [...]

Inventing the Future in Ballarò

Inventing the Future in Ballarò

The project “Inventing the Future in Ballarò” is a project of 24 months (June 2008 – June 2010 – Call for proposals of the Foundation of the South) at its second phase of activity. Last year a vocational training programme was conducted for young women (Italian and immigrant) aged between 17 and 21 years, unemployed, [...]