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Youth Guarantee at CSC, two successful stories

Youth Guarantee at CSC, two successful stories

This year, also the Centre for Creative Development “Danilo Dolci” (CSC) had joined measure 5 within Youth Guarantee, the European Programme addressed to young people between 15 and 29 years of age who are neither in education nor in employment, which allowed to fund extra-curricular job placements aimed at easing orientation, access or reinsertion in the labour market for young people who applied for the programme within the provided deadline.

SlowMed, Mediterranean scents and flavours around Tavira

SlowMed, Mediterranean scents and flavours around Tavira

From the 4th to the 6th of September 2015 the international event of the SlowMed project – Food as means of dialogue in Mediterranean context – filled the town of Tavira, in southern Portugal, of scents, flavors, smiles and reflections. The event, hosted within the III Fair of the Mediterranean Diet, was attended by hundreds of local producers. It gave a chance to about 90 participants from the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea to meet and share in the theory and practice the great intangible heritage of the Mediterranean Diet.

European informal network, first meeting held in Palermo

European informal network, first meeting held in Palermo

The first meeting of the European informal network coordinated by CSC with members from Spain, Norway, Germany and England took place on Sept. 10, 2015 in Palermo at the headquarters of the Centre for Creative Development “Danilo Dolci”. The meeting – the first in a long series of meetings with several European partners of the informal network (46 organizations from 21 countries) – was useful to discuss the procedures, tools and benefits to members related to this extensive European network.

EPIC project, final meeting in Palermo

EPIC project, final meeting in Palermo

Partners of the EPIC project met for the sixth meeting of the project from the 29th of June to the 1st of July 2015 in Palermo. This meeting was the last planned by the project, during which the final results of the project were presented and the final stages of implementation of EPIC discussed.

YES! – Young Entrepreneurs for Social Innovation

YES! – Young Entrepreneurs for Social Innovation

YES! is a youth exchange that will involve 4 young people aged from 18 to 30 years and 1 youth leader with no age limit, with other young people from 7 different countries: Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland and Spain.  The project will take...

Creative Reduce-Reuse-Recycle at the CARE Training Course

Creative Reduce-Reuse-Recycle at the CARE Training Course

On the 17th of May 2015 the “Creativity And Reuse for Empowerment– CARE” Training Course came to its end, funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, Key Action 1, Mobility project for youth workers. In the period from 09th till 17th of May 2015 CARE brought together 30...

First InfoDay Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs at CSC

First InfoDay Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs at CSC

Are you an entrepreneur or want to become one? Do you want to make an experience in a foreign company to get to know new markets and learn on the field how to start and manage a business, directly from experts? Or are you already an entrepreneur and want to give an...

L’Aquila, maieutical workshops to rebuilt the city

L’Aquila, maieutical workshops to rebuilt the city

Outcomes of the project Il Territorio siamo noi – Laboratori maieutici per ricostruire had been presented on last 3rd and 4th June in L’Aquila, during two days of conferences and meetings. The project has been developed by Associazione Culturale Territori in...

Water is freedom: the Jato dam experience

Water is freedom: the Jato dam experience

52 years ago, on the 27th February 1963, after tens of mobilisations by Danilo Dolci and his collaborators, the building works of a dam on the Jato River began. Together with the Democratic Consortium who managed water, it became one of the symbols of the fighting for rights and justice in western Sicily.

Youth Guarantee at CSC, two successful stories

Youth Guarantee at CSC, two successful stories

This year, also the Centre for Creative Development “Danilo Dolci” (CSC) had joined measure 5 within Youth Guarantee, the European Programme addressed to young people between 15 and 29 years of age who are neither in education nor in employment, which allowed to fund extra-curricular job placements aimed at easing orientation, access or reinsertion in the labour market for young people who applied for the programme within the provided deadline.

SlowMed, Mediterranean scents and flavours around Tavira

SlowMed, Mediterranean scents and flavours around Tavira

From the 4th to the 6th of September 2015 the international event of the SlowMed project – Food as means of dialogue in Mediterranean context – filled the town of Tavira, in southern Portugal, of scents, flavors, smiles and reflections. The event, hosted within the III Fair of the Mediterranean Diet, was attended by hundreds of local producers. It gave a chance to about 90 participants from the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea to meet and share in the theory and practice the great intangible heritage of the Mediterranean Diet.

European informal network, first meeting held in Palermo

European informal network, first meeting held in Palermo

The first meeting of the European informal network coordinated by CSC with members from Spain, Norway, Germany and England took place on Sept. 10, 2015 in Palermo at the headquarters of the Centre for Creative Development “Danilo Dolci”. The meeting – the first in a long series of meetings with several European partners of the informal network (46 organizations from 21 countries) – was useful to discuss the procedures, tools and benefits to members related to this extensive European network.

EPIC project, final meeting in Palermo

EPIC project, final meeting in Palermo

Partners of the EPIC project met for the sixth meeting of the project from the 29th of June to the 1st of July 2015 in Palermo. This meeting was the last planned by the project, during which the final results of the project were presented and the final stages of implementation of EPIC discussed.

YES! – Young Entrepreneurs for Social Innovation

YES! – Young Entrepreneurs for Social Innovation

YES! is a youth exchange that will involve 4 young people aged from 18 to 30 years and 1 youth leader with no age limit, with other young people from 7 different countries: Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland and Spain.  The project will take...

Creative Reduce-Reuse-Recycle at the CARE Training Course

Creative Reduce-Reuse-Recycle at the CARE Training Course

On the 17th of May 2015 the “Creativity And Reuse for Empowerment– CARE” Training Course came to its end, funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, Key Action 1, Mobility project for youth workers. In the period from 09th till 17th of May 2015 CARE brought together 30...

First InfoDay Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs at CSC

First InfoDay Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs at CSC

Are you an entrepreneur or want to become one? Do you want to make an experience in a foreign company to get to know new markets and learn on the field how to start and manage a business, directly from experts? Or are you already an entrepreneur and want to give an...

L’Aquila, maieutical workshops to rebuilt the city

L’Aquila, maieutical workshops to rebuilt the city

Outcomes of the project Il Territorio siamo noi – Laboratori maieutici per ricostruire had been presented on last 3rd and 4th June in L’Aquila, during two days of conferences and meetings. The project has been developed by Associazione Culturale Territori in...

Water is freedom: the Jato dam experience

Water is freedom: the Jato dam experience

52 years ago, on the 27th February 1963, after tens of mobilisations by Danilo Dolci and his collaborators, the building works of a dam on the Jato River began. Together with the Democratic Consortium who managed water, it became one of the symbols of the fighting for rights and justice in western Sicily.