Europe recognizes to the youth workers a strategic role in the creation of concrete spaces of contact, exchange, sharing between young people and generations.
With the increase of the migratory flows, youth workers feel the urge to acquire new skills to work effectively with young migrants and refugees.
An event was organised on Friday 15th December at the Salesians’ Santa Chiara centre, which had become a point of reference for the immigrants in Palermo. The place indeed hosts recently arrived immigrants, providing advice and orientation and childcare facilities. Many youth workers and volunteers work daily in the centre organising leisure activities for the hosting people.
The aim of the event was to share the intellectual outputs of the Papyrus project with an audience composed by youth workers and young refugees.
The platform that contains the main results already developed was showed.
The comparative report, with the existing activities with migrants organised in each partner countries from different organisations and institutions and the toolkit n.1.
The toolkit, called “Multicultural understandings and working in Multicultural Environments with Youth Refugees” is , designed to support youth workers carrying out activities with young migrants and containing also activities for youth workers that can reflect about the concept of multiculturalism.
During the event, some youth workers that belong to the Quality assessment & monitoring committee in Italy shared also their opinion regarding the Papyrus project and the toolkit.
Pictures of the Centro Diaconale La Noce- Istituto Valdese were shared with the audience: Syrian families and young refugees put in practice the activities described in the toolkit. They were really helpful for the Papyrus project.
In January the Papyrus team met in Manchester to discuss the first year of the PAPYRUS Project and the steps forward will be made for the next year.
PAPYRUS – Professional Action and Practice for Youth Refugees and Asylum Seekers is co-funded by Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Co-operation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices – Strategic Partnership in the field of YOUTH with the main aim to raise and sustain quality youth work in Europe by fostering strategies to combat segregation and discrimination of displaced youth.
The project’s partnership groups five organisations:
- The Manchester Metropolitan University (United Kingdom) – Coordinator,
- TUAS – Turku University of Applied Sciences Ltd. (Finland),
- Kopin – Koperazzjoni Internazzjonali (Malta),
- WEBIN – Western Balkans Institute Udruzenje (Serbia),
- CESIE (Italy).
For further information, send an e-mail to daria.labarbera@cesie.org.
