Objectives
- Enhanced socio-economic integration of migrant women and increased interaction between them and the host society.
- A newly developed model for integration strategies adaptable to the specificities of different local contexts.
- Sustainable collaborations and increased readiness of organisations, institutions and relevant stakeholders to tackle integration issues in the future.
Activities
- Context analysis to identify local needs, mapping stakeholders & analysing existing integration strategies;
- Co-design of the PITCH model for integration strategies during international working groups;
- “Translation” of the model into 7 local integration strategies for migrant women, with the support of local advisory committees;
- Development of clusters of activities and their flexible combination into personalised roadmaps, to respond to the individual needs of migrant women identified through a prior profiling process;
- Finalisation of the local strategies and the PITCH model based on pilot-testing results;
- Capacity buildings (CBP), local panel discussions, webinars, local events and an international conference to promote the strategies and the PITCH model, and to encourage interaction with the local community.
Resources
- Database for integration including at least 40 stakeholders/implementation country
- SWOT analysis Compendium on existing local integration strategies
- Neighbourhood map/implementation country
- PITCH model for local integration strategies
- Local integration strategy for migrant women/implementation country
- Profiling toolbox (guidelines on methods, topic list, profiling questionnaire, template for personalised roadmaps)
- 4 Consolidated learning packages with material for upskilling cluster (language, digital skills, employability, entrepreneurship paths)
- 3 consolidated outlines for awareness raising/guidance cluster (rights and duties, active citizenship, career/training guidance)
- 2 Programmes for social cluster (neighbourhood walks & social cafés) / implementation country
- strategic document containing the final version of the local integration strategy for migrant women 1/implementation country
- 1 White paper on the PITCH Model
- 1 Outline for the Capacity Building Programme: designing sustainable needs- oriented integration initiatives
Impact
- 210 migrant women involved.
- Staff of 5 municipalities.
- Staff of 7 organizations/research centers.
- 1 network of municipalities.
- Creation of a common EU model promoting a new, bottom-up approach to integration, resulting from a codesign process based on sharing local practices and peer-learning.
- Transferability of project’s outputs, designed in a way to respond to the needs and challenges identified in different European countries.
- Creation of a new channel for multi-stakeholder cooperation at transnational and local level.
- Enhancement of institutional dialogue on integration strategies at EU level.
- Stronger sense of belonging of migrant women to European societies, by strengthening their skills and by making them better aware of their rights, duties and opportunities.
Partners
- CESIE (Italy, coordinator)
- COMUNE DI PALERMO (Italy)
- SYMPLEXIS (Greece)
- Dimos Neapolis Sykeon (Greece)
- ZNANSTVENO-RAZISKOVALNO SREDISCE KOPER (Slovenia)
- MESTNA OBCINA KOPER (Slovenia)
- IINCOMA (Spain)
- AYUNTAMIENTO DE SEVILLA (Spain)
- CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD (Cyprus)
- Demos Ipsona (Cyprus)
- DIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP (Lithuania)
- SWIDEAS (Sweden)
- Union of the Baltic Cities (Poland)
- CESIE (Italia, coordinatore)
- COMUNE DI PALERMO (Italia)
- SYMPLEXIS (Grecia)
- Dimos Neapolis Sykeon (Grecia)
- ZNANSTVENO-RAZISKOVALNO SREDISCE KOPER (Slovenia)
- MESTNA OBCINA KOPER (Slovenia)
- IINCOMA (Spagna)
- AYUNTAMIENTO DE SEVILLA (Spagna)
- CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD (Cipro)
- Demos Ipsona (Cipro)
- DIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP (Lituania)
- SWIDEAS (Svezia)
- Union of the Baltic Cities (Polonia)
PITCH is funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF).
The European Commission’s support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Project Number: 101038534.
