Project aims 

• Through participatory methodologies the project aims to interweave perception and opinions of individuals, policy makers, opinion leaders and representatives of the multicultural civil society.
• The project aims at developing, testing and promoting innovative tools and methodologies in adult learning for immigrants; to orchestrating different behaviours and lines of reasoning in order to lay the foundations of a mestizo culture; to bringing to light daily life aspects considered differently by different cultures in order to overcome cultural differences and create a mestizo culture.
• The project intends to disseminate the mestizo theory as framework for interpretation of social reality and habit of inter-personal communication, and to foster analysis of immigrants’ needs in every Partner Country.
• Groups composed of immigrants coming from different cultures, Countries, and religions will participate in workshops in order to let emerge different points of views, and then to encourage then collective elaboration of hypothesis to resolve conflicts.
• There will be no top-down approach, no lessons will be given but participants will co-construct a common knowledge, will share patterns of interpretation of reality and will be involved in an exchange of competencies and experiences, in accordance with principles of intercultural education.
• The rising political consciousness and participation of immigrants in public life will have a specific effect: the submission of proposals to local institutions in order to improve the management of multicultural problems.

What will the project produce 

• The expected outputs will consist in measurable change of behaviours, which will be studied by comparing the phenomenon of racism and intercultural conflicts in Partner Countries before ad after the implementation of the project.
• The project’s products will be: the web site, the recommendations to be submitted to local institutions, the leaflet of the project, DVD,  the ‘methodological kit’, the national and European reports.
• The project will tear down cultural walls encouraging continuous dialogue and interaction between culturally, ethnically and socially different groups, and giving to participants the opportunity to tell their life experiences by using different languages (words, painting, videos, etc.).
• A 25 people target group will be selected in each Partner Country, according to criteria decided by Scientific Committee. During the workshops sessions the “critical incidents” methodology developed by Margalit Cohen-Emerique will be used in order to promote an active participation. This approach doesn’t try to minimize or hide cultural differences but encourages people to contrast starting from some shocking experiences.
  This methodology is focused on the idea that the roots of conflicts are not so much the lack of knowledge about the culture of the other, but rather that the professionals are not always aware of the fact that they themselves are carriers of a culture that is not only very different from the culture of the other but is also often more highly valued.
• 4 series of workshops will be organized on 4 different issues. All the workshops will be video recorded. Recordings and products created by target groups will be published on the web site. Representatives of 4 groups will meet 4 times (at the end of each thematic session of workshop) in order to compare and share results of the work on each single issue. The proposals coming out from each target group will be submitted to local institution during the final local seminars.

The task of CB 

• Create website
• Plan and execute 4 workshops
• Carry out creative products at each workshop (story-telling, poetry, posters, paintings) (at M7, M10, M13, M16);
• Publish products of target groups in the web site (at M7-M24);
• Publish workshop’s results in the web site (at M8-17);
• Plan and execute consortium meeting (including the management and scientific committees) is scheduled in Denmark during M10 for 3 days. The purpose of this meeting is to evaluate the results achieved with the first two workshop in order to rectify the approach and to prepare better the next two ones.
• Plan and execute final local seminar (at M23) Attending will be representatives of local institutions, representatives of immigrants’ target groups, International experts, and the wide public will be invited to participate. This will be the occasion to share the project’s results, the ‘methodological kit’ and recommendations submitted by target groups to political authorities.