CARED - Culture and Art against Refugees Discrimination

Minimum wants to involve an organisations with a proved experience in the internal evaluation and monitoring of EU project, especially in the field of social inclusion and integration. This partner will be responsible for the quality control during all the phases of the project, assuring the respect of deadlines and tasks. Furthermore, it will responsible for the Risk Management.

“CARED - Culture and Art against Refugees Discrimination” (hereafter called CARED) wants to contribute in raising and increasing the comprehension of cultural differences among young people aged 16-18, refugees and Europeans, through a learning path linked to ‘visual arts’. This project takes the cue from the current emergency about migration throughout Europe and the increased sense of mistrust and in some cases, racism, towards migrants.
Particularly in central-eastern part of Europe, these feelings have been rapidly developed into a common closure against all the people came from abroad Europe, in a general framework created by media that exalts the fright of differences, of other cultures.
CARED wants to involve two groups of participants with the aim and the hope that the power of creativity, the art and the possibility of a communication on a common ground, can facilitate the mutual comprehension of cultural differences. The Europeans involved from a Polish secondary school and the refugees hosted in a dedicated centre in Italy will get in touch by a blended mobility exchange: a step by step online exchange via skype and other social media to better know their daily life (‘collecting pieces of life’) and two international workshop to create a multicultural and multilingual photobook.
Through this experience target groups also improve their creative skills and personal skills (language, self-confidence, respect, trust, etc…).
As written in EU “Inclusion and Diversity Strategy - in the field of youth”, cultural issues are really central in the EU policy for the inclusion of citizens, especially young people, yet involved in the worldwide economic and social crisis linked to the market of labour: «in the wake of increased immigration to and within Europe, racism and ethnic and religious stereotyping is on the increase in many countries. A robust strategy embracing diversity among peoples can serve to challenge and address these issues. The Inclusion and Diversity Strategy sets out to embrace and celebrate diversity so that difference becomes a positive source for learning rather than the cause for negative competition and prejudice. Young people and youth workers should be equipped with the necessary competences to manage and work with diversity. This will encourage positive interactions between people of all walks of life and ultimately improve the situation of young people with fewer opportunities».
In this sense, CARED, via the tools of visual art, photos, social media and so on, wants to embrace the diversity giving its participants the possibility to better understand each other and take advantage of diversity as a way to grow and become a responsible and active citizen, no matter where you come from.
(please read the concept paper attached below)