Ιn the BRIDGES Project, 9 organizations from 5 Countries (Italy, Spain, Austria, Croatia and Greece) collaborate and interact with their local communities with the aim to strengthen the community as a whole, through the encouragement of dialogue and mutual enrichment between third-country and host-country nationals.
Objectives
The BRIDGES project objective is to increase the dialogue, integration and cohesion in the local communities of the areas that include refugees and migrants, through the participatory organization and conduction of common collaborative practices such as sports and cultural activities, volunteerism and community service actions, etc.
Target group
local communities which include native population, third-country migrants, refugees
Activities
- Needs assessment of the selected local community
- Participatory community meetings – events – dialogue
- Co-designing and co-developing of community activities
- 2 sports practices/ trainings/ events
- 2 cultural and educational events
- 2 voluntary activities for the implementation of community services
- Continuous communication activities of the project, video and online campaign, events, etc.
Duration
2 years
Partners
- AICS Italy
- COSPE Italy
- Sociolab Italy
- UNIO DE CONSELLS ESPORTIUS DE CATALUNYA Spain
- Ajuntament Tortosa Spain
- USB Greece
- ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΗ Greece
- CENTER FOR PEACE STUDIES Croatia
- CSIT Austria
Description
ANTIGONE participates in the BRIDGES Project, in which 9 organizations from 5 Countries (Italy, Spain, Austria, Croatia and Greece) collaborate and interact with their local communities with the aim to strengthen the community as a whole, through the encouragement of dialogue and mutual enrichment between third-country and host-country nationals.
The BRIDGES project objective is to increase the dialogue, integration and cohesion in the local communities of the areas that receive great refugees’ and migrants’ flows, through the organization of common collaborative practices such as sports and cultural activities, volunteerism and community service actions, etc. The activities will be co-designed and implemented by all community members in a participatory and inclusive process at local level and they will be based on a preliminary needs assessment.
During the 2-year implementation of the project, in all participating countries, 400 people will be involved in local networks and at least 48 integration initiatives will be based on voluntary work and addressed to both third-country and host-country nationals as mixed target groups. Approximately 1000 people, in mixed groups, will be involved in integration activities. Via the dissemination and awareness raising strategy, hundreds of thousands of people will be reached and informed.
The dissemination strategy at national and European level is based on 8 local meetings and 1 final conference, on spreading of brochures and European Handbook and 5 videos, online communication tools and the creation of an active network of organizations (including migrants’ organizations) Beneficiaries: 3500 people reached from printed materials, 500 people reached from the public events, 130.000 reached by videos and online campaign.
Funding
The project is co-funded by the EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
