Distress Flare (FDD) is a European cooperation project operating in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Turkey and France. Its aim is to unite, compare and contrast the various skills and experiences had by citizens, researchers, artists and local public decision-makers working to counter migrants’ social exclusion.Europe has recently experienced one of its sharpest ever rises of its history in migrant people numbers. The issue of welcoming these migrant people is gaining greater traction in both EU-wide and local debates going so far as to severely divide populations. Populist ideologies often capitalise on a fear of foreigners, and their rise runs counter to ambitions to consolidate Europe as a space for peace, while also driving a wedge between citizens and institutions.Given the urgent need to rebuild a culture of solidarity that can overcome nationalist narratives, eleven organisations from six countries are banding together their skills, their capacity for innovation and their networks to honour the contribution and role of migrants in Europe today. Our objectives:- To contribute to migrants’ social inclusion and help them actively participate in democratic life. We will do this by strengthening migrants’ ability to express themselves publically as they acquire new interpersonal and intercultural skills.- To empower migrants and non-migrants to work towards a more creative Europe with a greater sense of solidarity. - To support the design, implementation and dissemination of innovative teaching methods through a combination of the eleven partners’ pedagogical, social, artistic and academic skills.- To promote and apply the idea of cultural rights as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Fribourg Declaration.Over a three-year period, the project multidisciplinary consortium will work to create several multilingual resources, including handbooks for all participants, a reference material kit, a website, a scientific and educational publication, a manifesto and a documentary film series.To do this, in each countries of the project, from 2019 to 2021, we will organise six training sessions, each one due to run over seven consecutive days comprised of :- an educational artistic workshop in which adults and young migrants and non-migrants, ultimately will display their work in public;- a communications kit workshop, in which a group of students from a university or specialist college will roll out our communications in public spaces;- an action-research organised by humanities researchers, with a focus on the methodological innovations designed over the course of the project;- a plenary seminar for all stakeholders.The project’s third year will be spent finalising intellectual outputs and spreading the word about them locally and internationally. A training day for public decision-makers will bring the project to a close in June 2022 and lend it a global impact.We expect the project’s medium-term impacts to be the following:- A revitalised sense of citizenship from a local level upwards, as people are encouraged to take part in democratic life and engage with EU-wide social issues such as the challenges of immigration.- Greater legitimacy will be given to innovative learning promoting multidisciplinary skills.- Greater learning opportunities in Europe to support the education and training sector. These opportunities will emerge out of newly created and promoted multilingual open educational resources coproduced with project stakeholders. These attractive, high-quality OERs will be available online.- Sustainable transnational cooperative networks will be set up between universities and people from outside academia. - Partners will have more scope for working internationally and trialling new methodologies.- Participants, public decision-makers and partner organisations will become more conscious of their ties to our European community’s shared future.- New educational synergies will be developed between cities: training for public decision-makers is designed to be replicable, and its aim is to formulate public policy in which intercultural dialogue and citizen participation are encouraged.The FDD project’s primary audience is adults and young migrants and non-migrants who will take part in educational artistic workshops. FDD also aims to train professionals from all different backgrounds—including teachers, academics and public decision-makers—so that we can pass on the OERs to a wider student audience and facilitate better awareness and understanding of how migration has historically shaped modern-day Europe. The project has the capacity to get 3,600 people directly involved, and its outcomes will be communicated to more than 60,000 people.

<< Background >>Faced with the feeling of lack of confidence of European citizens towards their institutions as well as the recent upheavals that have changed our relationship to the public space (attacks, lockdown), a consortium of 8 partners has decided to commit to creating innovative, inclusive and creative adult training methods by promoting the “doing-together” for the benefit of living together.Thus, Secondary Residence (RSEU) is a transnational European cooperation project between Portugal, Spain, Austria, Germany and France. It brings together the skills and cross-over experiences of citizens, researchers, artists and public decision-makers to promote social inclusion and citizen participation.<< Objectives >>The RSEU project aims to :-Strengthen the skills of people facing socio-economic difficulties (analysis, listening, empathy, adaptability, cooperation, sociability, emotion sharing, communication) to enable them to actively take part in democratic and civic life and to progress in social inclusion.-Develop an innovative and reproducible educational method to revitalize citizenship and public space locally by combining the skills and shared experiences of citizens, artists, researchers and public decision-makers.-Raise awareness among the inhabitants of five European cities, and as a priority those facing socio-economic difficulties, of the fact that we share the same community of destiny in Europe, by involving them in an educational process of artistic creation, to make them transform their perspective and sharpen their critical mind on the role of our institutions. The RSEU project primarily aims to train adults facing socio-economic difficulties through their participation in cross-disciplinary and collaborative activities. The objective of RSEU is also to train professionals from different areas, artists, teachers, researchers and public decision-makers, in order to transmit the results of the project, and in particular the replicability kit, to a larger audience. It will directly involve 1,400 people, and its results will then be disseminated to over 40,000 people.<< Implementation >>To achieve its goals, the multidisciplinary consortium will implement two training modules, as well as an ambitious dissemination programme in the five cities of the project (Lisbon, L’Hospitalet del Llobregat, Graz, Weimar and Rennes):-Fifteen think tanks (three per city) between January and June 2022 that will gather adults facing socio-economic difficulties, researchers, students, public decision-makers, local people and resource structures, and other adults. They will enable to prepare the implementation of the residences.-Five residences (1 per city) between September 2022 and June 2023, which will bring together an artist, a resident (adult facing socio-economic problems), and a public decision-maker, for 7 days immersed in a territory. The three residents will have to produce a collective reflection that will constitute the basis for a future artistic production. -Five research-actions (1 per city) by five researchers in the human and social sciences in charge of supporting and analysing the training process;-An international dissemination programme that will initially be based on the public presentation of the five works (living or visual arts) produced following the residences and secondly on the dissemination of the different results of activities and projects (web mediation website, series of guides, replicability kit and scientific analysis).<< Results >>The RSEU project will produce the following results: Tangible results: -The results of the following activities: the reports at the end of the 3 transnational seminars, the summaries of the citizen think tanks, the reports of the 4 transmission meetings, the logbooks and notes of intent of the residences, the five works of visual art or performing art and the qualitative evaluation report carried out by the group of researchers in human and social sciences Topik.-The following project results: a web mediation website, a series of guides, a citizens' think tank replicability kit, a residence replicability kit, and a scientific analysis,-A communication kit: bringing together press releases, newsletters and announcements disseminated in the local, national and European media and to the various stakeholders as the project progresses.Intangible results: 1. The expected impacts of the RSEU project on target groups (adults experiencing socio-economic difficulties) and participants (professionals from different sectors, artists, teachers, researchers, public decision-makers, other adults, students) are as follows:- Development and enhancement of intercultural skills of participants and target groups (respect and tolerance in the face of cultural otherness, different world-visions, civic mind, etc.),- Strengthening the expertise of local decision-makers and researchers through the discovery, participation and analysis of a participatory educational method combining arts, science and education to citizens.- Revitalising citizenship locally by promoting participation in democratic life and engagement of people in the major social EU issues,2. The expected impacts of the RSEU project on partners, their networks and other stakeholders are as follows:- Enriching the learning offer for the benefit of the education and training area (universities, social centres, associations), by creating and promoting attractive multilingual Free Educational Resources, co-produced with project stakeholders, of high quality and accessible to all online,- A better understanding and realisation of the European opportunity,- Development of the ability to expand its circle of target audiences and to disseminate multilingual productions adapted for very diverse recipients by creating both local and international networks.- Structuring of sustainable transnational cooperation networks between universities and non-academic stakeholders.

"CULTURAVIRUS - the art of new communitiesThe partnership project ""Culturavirus - the art of new communities” created by three organizations: Bemowskie Centrum Kultury (Poland), Associacao Renovar A Mouraria (Portugal), Pogon - Zagrebački centar za nezavisnu culu i mlade (Croatia), is a response to the challenges and needs related with the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of the implementation of program activities of cultural institutions and social integration. Its purpose is the exchange of practices and the selection of methods and tools in the field of “community arts” that are included in the daily work of employees and associates of partner organizations in times the social crisis. The 16-month project will involve a total of 36 participants - employees, volunteers, community leaders and artists associated with the organizations.The main goal of the project ""Culturavirus - the art of new communities"" is to work towards the bottom-up involvement of the recipients of institutions - strengthening their sense of agency and increasing participation in activities. The indirect goal - the development of project participants, substantive leaders of partner organizations, who are initiators, activists and educators of these activities, addressed to adult members of local communities.The project will include 3 training programs lasting 5 days, in each of the partner organizations' countries, focusing on the strengths of the host organizations:- Working with the ABCD method - community development based on resources (thanks to the resources of the Bemowo Cultural Center)- Digital forms of activation of local communities (thanks to the resources of Bemowo Centrum Kultury and Associacao Renovar a Mouraria)- Working with a multicultural community, taking into account the refugee and migrant background (thanks to the resources of Associacao Renovar a Mouraria)- Working on the basis of local tangible and intangible cultural heritage (thanks to the resources of Associacao Renovar a Mouraria)- Organization and running of artistic residencies (thanks to the resources of Pogon - Zagrebački centar za nezavisnu Kultu i mlade)- Building a system of comprehensive support for residents active in the field of culture and art (thanks to the resources of Pogon - Zagrebački centar za nezavisnu Kultu i mlade)Project participants will learn a variety of approaches to activities in the field of „community arts” and will understand the strategies and the environmental context of each organization, along with learning about the operational methods in implementing selected projects and jointly coming up with ways to introduce new ideas in their local communities. In order to use the extraordinary potential of international cooperation, the training schedule will be varied with numerous local cultural events.Thanks to the participation in the project, organizations will strengthen local partnerships, create a transnational network of support and develop their program activities based on local resources and the ""community arts"" method. With the security of this support, along with a stable organizational structure, the assumption of a long-term plan of the impact of the project on participants, organizations and local communities will be possible, regardless of external circumstances.The course of the project implementation and its effects will be disseminated on the EPALE platform, as well as on social media and the organizations' websites. All results will be available free of charge to disseminate the developed tools and common practices related to the project."

« THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MIGRANTS - A great collective and educational enterprise of experiences and knowledge sharing on the theme of migrations in Europe » (EMEU) is a European transnational cooperation project between Portugal, Spain, France and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar which has gathered and confronted the intertwined expertise and experiences of citizens, researchers, pedagogues, artists and local public stakeholders to fight against the social exclusion of migrants.In facing the major crisis we are going through, a source of tension and withdrawal, the EMEU project has invested in collective intelligence and knowledge transmission with the aim of synegizing our multicultural and globalized society - one shaped by migratory movements - into a factor of growth and human development. Thus this project has then attempted to answer to the emergency of operating a change of point of view about migrants and to promote intercultural dialogue in Europe by favouring a better knowledge and understanding of the history of migrations that have shaped contemporary Europe.Its aims:- To reinforce social inclusion of migrants and to favour their active participation in democratic life by empowering them through public expression via the acquisition of interpersonal and intercultural expertise- To develop the concept of exchange and implementation of innovative educational methods involving the participation of adult learners and young people from diverse backgrounds and combining the pedagogical, artistic and scientific expertise of the 10 co-organizers at the European level- To produce and to favour the circulation of multilingual open educational resources (OER) in Europe thereby promoting the linguistic, cultural and social diversity through the mobilisation of public stakeholders and by using the lever of new technologies- To develop local networks of strategic actors to target the migrants with fewer opportunities and educators for the transfer of the multilingual OER produced.Between 2015 and 2017, we have mainly worked with adult learners from diverse backgrounds and education, as well as training staff from different professional fields to realise a web site, a series of pedagogical guides, a reference kit, a collective multilingual publication, a user manual and a documentary movie about the theme of migrations in Europe. To achieve that, we have organized in the territories of action of the project:-3 transnational meetings of practices exchange and collective evaluation-local learning activities (pedagogical workshops with migrant learners, graphic design workshops and film-shooting workshops with students) contributing to the realization of the outputs-a series of intermediary restitutions and then public presentation events of our 6 outputs (exhibitions, reading-debates, meetings, projections), towards 2 535 organizations (schools, universities, libraries, art centres, civic centres, NGOs, municipalities, etc.)To achieve the implementation of these actions, favour a productive dialogue on the European scale and create the conditions for a sustainable exploitation of the results, the 10 co-organizers of the project have depended on a structured network of 8 cities along the Atlantic coast (Brest, Rennes, Nantes, Gijon, Cadix, Porto, Lisbon, Gibraltar) and on the animation of local networks of strategic actors across the project, that represent some 50 partner organizations.The EMEU project has targeted 14 390 persons in total in France, Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar, in the 8 associated cities and beyond: migrant and non migrant adult learners, education and training staff (artists, researchers, coordinators, teachers, animators), public stakeholders, migrant and non migrant young people, pupils and students.In the end, the EMEU project made it possible to:-enlarging the offer of attractive and high quality learning possibilities accessible to everyone -favouring the acquisition and transfer of new linguistic, digital, interpersonal and intercultural expertise and reduce the gap of skill acquisition by adult learners-training pedagogues from different fields to the development of innovative educational methods based on the learner by using transversal expertise-developing new local and transnational synergies and sustainable cooperations between practice, research and politics to favour an active European citizenship-transferring the end results into new projects in the artistic, scientific, educational, social and political fields, and into new territories in order to promote the integration of migrant populations.

The project Sustainable Migrantour Routes aims to: expand the existing Migrantour network into new three cities and reshape the concept of European cultural heritage to include the voices and stories of migrants/refugees as they are shared through intercultural urban walks (Migrantours) including digital storytelling features. At the same time, Migrantour Sustainable Routes seeks to respond to migrant/refugee needs for training, for recognizing their expertise, and for developing their sense of belonging through civic participation while promoting a sustainable form of cultural tourism. The project's objectives are to enhance the target groups' (migrants/refugees) belonging , civic involvement and active citizenship through engaging with cultural heritage. Through transnational cooperation, we will motivate our target groups to recognize the importance of cooperation, active participation, and social inclusion as basic values of the European Union.The partnership is composed by 7 experienced organisations from Copenhaghen (Denmark), Milan (Italy), Ljubljiana (Slovenia), Utrecht (Netherlands), Brussels (Belgium), Lisbon (Portugal) and Barcelona (Spain) with respective/complementary expertise in project management, storytelling, migrant/refugee social inclusion and upskilling, sustainable cultural tourism, Migrantour Network, digital mapping, and web platforms. Sustainable Migrantour Routes intends to implement: - 4 transnational project meetings - 1 JSTE - 4 BlendedMobilities - 3 Intellectual Outputs - 7 Multiplier Events - Monitoring and Evaluation activities - Dissemination activities - for migrant/refugee Migrantour guides during a period of 24 months of project activities running from 01/03/2021 till 28/02/2023.The current proposal builds on the successful and sustainable Migrantour network and enhances it by contributing the following 3 planned Intellectual Outputs: 1) ITINERARIES & SCRIPTS FOR 7 NEW MIGRANTOUR ROUTES - one in each partner city 2) ONLINE MIGRANTOUR TRAINING TOOL-KIT 3) Sustainable Migrantour Routes WEB PLATFORM &DIGITAL INTERACTIVE STORY MAPS - one in each partner city. All the Intellectual Outputs are interconnected and will result in: expanding the existing Migrantour Network into three new cities (Barcelona, Copenhagen, Utrecht); creating a pedagogically-grounded, learner-centered training toolkit for Migrantour guides available online as an open educational resource (OER); and launching an OER digital archive of interactive story maps to capture the migrant voices in European cities thus broadening European cultural heritage. The JSTEis planned to be held in the Netherlands, and will be a T.o.T. (Training of Trainers) for the partners' staff during which they will gain the necessary skills in digital storytelling to create the digital interactive story maps and also multimedia materials for the online toolkit. The blended mobilities will pair senior Migrantour cities with new ones and the senior guides will serve as trainers and peer-mentors for the new guides. The project foresees an enormous and effective impact at local, regional, national and European level on various target groups(migrants/refugees) and it is certainly sustainable also after the project ends; as the Migrantour walks generate job opportunities in the tourism sector while they promote civic participation and social inclusion changing the narrative on migration to highlight its positive contribution to cultural heritage. The project will be an example of sustainable tourism, as the walks are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable and will expand zero-mile cultural heritage tourism opportunities in the partner cities.