Italian Partner - Training 2000

TRAINING 2000 is a VET (Vocational Education and Training) centre in the Marche Region-Italy, with experience in vocational training and continuous education with emphasis on socially and economically disadvantaged groups. During each year, this centre is responsible for the execution of different types of training in the region, including apprenticeship training.
Since 1994, Training 2000 is involved in research and development of new tools and methodologies for LLL-Life Long Learning and distance learning as well as pedagogical aspects of teaching and learning in adult’s education. The Organization has participated in several international projects with partners from all European countries in areas related to education, e-learning, blended learning, formal-informal education for adults, differently disabled people, immigrants, people with low education level.
Our organization is also involved in a Grundtvig Multilateral Project named “ALL INCLUSIVE”, aiming to equalise access to information and services in the disability sector that will enhance the lifestyle and increase opportunities for persons with disabilities and a migration background and their families. In this project we will gather together young migrants from more nationalities and support them to develop a sense of connection to others in Europe and aware them on their European Citizens’ status. In this way we will help them to exceed their uncertainty due to the “swinging” between their native and their adoptive citizenship and support them in developing their sense of self-worth and self-esteem.
The European dimension will assist the learners involved in the project to develop a sense of connection to others in Europe and their integration into a project which reaches beyond the immediate area in which they have settled will also, through the valuable contribution they are making economically, help them develop their sense of well-being as valued citizens in a new and dynamic Europe.
Problem addressed:
The Italian partner, based in the hill region of Marche has already established some contacts with a certain disadvantageous category: people with disabilities with a migrant background, making a research on needs analysis at the level of this target group. This research reveals more problems this category face with, as follows:
- a big rate of unemployment – one of the reasons is the low access to the information (about labor market and any other useful links – about their rights and privileges, programmes focused on them,
- a lack of understanding from society – especially due to the numerous financial, communication and social barriers
- an almost total absence of leisure time activities – this force them to spend their free time at home and this is the first barrier against their social integration and self development.
The project aims to build a “bridge” between young immigrants and old autochthon inhabitants of the rural region of Marche, by engaging them in a set of common activities.
The first – young immigrants – often do not fully belong to either the culture of the host country or the culture of origin. The deepest roots are developed in the place they live and in the relationships to a broad (sometimes international) social network of relatives, friends and peers. Young people are trying to balance and to bridge these divergent world views by integrating their diverse experiences into a new identity, facing, in this way, with a profound societal and cultural transformation.
On the other hand, the impact of the rapidly changing society in the rural region of Marche (& as elsewhere in rural Italy) due, in part, to the influx of affluent urban ‘settlers’ and holiday home owners, is the increasing isolation of older indigenous people who are in many of the smaller communities increasingly segregated from the ‘new’ society that develops. Whilst, in many cases they have under-developed skills in certain aspects of modern life they are still repositories of valuable knowledge and understanding of local ‘resources’ of product and of landscape.
So, the project will gather together two groups – one who left their natal places and try to built a life abroad and others who were more and more “pushed” toward their natal places as in a cage. They will be involved together in common activities and discover a new and unknown world: immigrants will face with a hidden but very important part of culture from their host places and old villagers will find out that the world is fully living beyond the hills of Marche. At the end the common European dimension of their existence and the feeling of “being European” will come as a matter of course.