{"id":124878,"date":"2023-10-13T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T09:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/?p=124878"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T08:22:28","slug":"pitch-opportunuty-exchange-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/en\/notizie\/pitch-opportunuty-exchange-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"PITCH: an opportunity to exchange ideas and think about the future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How to foster the local integration of migrant women<\/strong>? PITCH<\/a><\/strong> is the project that tries to answer this question by implementing strategies based on a personalized, participatory and multi-stakeholder approach.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A first step, taken from May to July 2023, was to create the Cosy Corners<\/strong><\/em> at the Women and Girls Safe Space (WGSS) in Palermo: group discussions, art and play sessions that allowed the participating women to discover their needs, aspirations and knowledge of their own rights.<\/strong> In this way they were able to express themselves in a time of group sharing while taking care of themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Women and Girls Safe Space was opened in 2020 by the Penc Anthropology and Geoclinical Psychology Center, a nonprofit organization committed to offering support and empowerment to vulnerable migrant people living in Palermo. Today, WGSS is a place where girls and women receive support to improve their psychosocial well-being<\/strong> that works closely with the City of Palermo and international organizations such as UNICEF, IRC, and SOS Children's Villages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what emerged during Cosy Corners<\/em>? By taking the floor and sharing experiences, the women participants expressed a need for socialization, improving their skills and learning about their rights as migrants and the services available to them.<\/strong> It was an important moment<\/strong> of<\/strong> awareness<\/strong> raising<\/strong>, which totally engaged the participants, who then said they had fun and looked forward to participating in the next activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New activities created based on their feedback will be presented<\/strong> to women attending WGSS this month, which will also be open to those who have never participated in Cosy Corners<\/em>, ensuring equal opportunities for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CESIE, as coordinator of the PITCH project, is engaged in the co-design of a model that will be adapted in 7 local strategies and put into practice with migrant women<\/strong> in Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Spain, Cyprus, Lithuania and Sweden, countries that are part of the PITCH consortium and have so far demonstrated cooperation and alignment with the project values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooperation with partners<\/strong>, together with the strategic participation of municipalities in the countries involved, will on the one hand ensure greater socio-economic integration of migrant women<\/strong> and greater interaction between them and the host society; on the other hand, it will pave the way for sustainable collaborations<\/strong>, but also for greater readiness of organizations, institutions and stakeholders to address integration and inclusion challenges in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay up-to-date to learn about all the latest PITCH news: visit https:\/\/pitch-eu.eu\/<\/a><\/em>, follow us on Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>, or contact Giovanni Barbieri: giovanni.barbieri@cesie.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

PITCH \u2013 A model for gender-sensitive integration strategies based on personalised, participatory, local, and multi stakeholder approaches<\/a> is funded by HOME \u2013 AMIF-2020-AG-CALL-01: Developing and implementing local integration strategies through multi- stakeholder partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n