Passaggi

Passaggi is a non profit association based in Italy with a decennial experience in the field of non formal, informal education, and culture promotion, inspired by solidarity and respect. It counts staff (1/20) ordinary members, mainly over 50 women, (20/100), trainees/learners participating in courses and activities for all ages(100/200), plus a wide number of citizens who take part to informal education and events. Initiatives are addressed to any age, with particular focus to seniors and young adults, at local, national, European level. The target groups are youth, women, seniors, immigrants. Passaggi mainly supports the weakest component of society; it undertakes to inspire active ageing, to sustain gender equality and to foster women’s social development. People envolved as members, staff, trainers and trainees care about youth perspectives, gender equity, migrants’ inclusion, because they are convinced that the making of the future society is founded on them. Passaggi is characterized by a great human capital and a big development potential; it is well experienced in EU projects. It is motivated in joining qualified and dynamic partners in order to design innovative proposals and tools, for the many and hard challenges occurring in our times where cultural diversity, social injustice and moral disvalues risk to become structural to European society. Passaggi, in the framework of non formal and informal education delivers several courses, training activities as well as intervention in social and cultural contests. The peculiar characteristic of the association is that it works in close connection with trainees. They get and donate to the community a mutual sustain to avoid drop out, marginalization. Passaggi aims at connecting people, it is a reference point for many unemployed, under employed and NEET (not in education employment, training) people. Many unformal activities, for soft skill achievement are organized: literacy education, motivational workshops with gender perspective, women and youth entrepreneurship, active citizenship, migrant inclusion. Passaggi cares of sustainable development, well being and environmental education with the perspective of employability for young and women and more serene aging people.