Progetto Zattera Blu Società Cooperativa Sociale Onlus

PROGETTO ZATTERA BLU is a non profit organization, founded in 1993 in Schio (province of Vicenza) with the aim to promote cooperation -on local and international level- among public and private organizations of the third sector involved in social, educational and local development activities. Its mission is the defence of human and civil rights and the promotion of a shared culture founded on the values of equity, social inclusion and solidarity. Progetto Zattera Blu works as a consortium: it provides several services for four different organizations (Adelante, Radicà, Samarcanda and Kirikù), whose mission is the empowerment, the human resources development, as well as the development of social groups, local communities and organizations. By empowerment we mean the enhancement of knowledge, expertise, detection and activation of social capital. The main goal is to promote the education and the development of young people, adults and local communities by projecting several activities and trainings in the fields of non formal education, active citizenship and international cooperation. Progetto Zattera Blu pursues these specific objectives: - to promote educational programmes for young people and adults, in order to contribute to their development, empowerment and active participation to the political, social, economic and cultural life; - to support the integration of all the individuals of the community, immigrants in particular, working together with the Public Services; - to encourage the intercultural dialogue and fight with all the form of discrimination, racism and xenophobia; - to develop tutoring and mentorship programmes for youngsters with fewer opportunities in order to promote their social inclusion; - to promote local and international volunteering opportunities for adolescents and young adults as a non formal education method for transferable skills' development - to promote studies and researches on the “interculturality”'s them, human rights, active citizenship; - to contribute with specific actions within development cooperation of NGO’s, for the development of Third Countries. The mission and the objectives inspire our methodology of action in all the fields of activities: this action is carried out through the constant commitment to raise awareness on European policies and by developing, supporting and coordinating networking activities among different organizations, institutions and individuals. Nowadays we are mainly specialized in the fields of training and project designing. As far as the training field is concerned, we prefer interactive workshops to the simple transmission of knowledge by means of academic lectures so as to enable people to actually “learn by doing”. For this reason our training methodology involves: interactive laboratories, problem solving strategies, cooperative learning approaches, feedbacks and follow ups to practice. Our workshops aim to promote the development of local communities and organizations by focusing on active participation and European citizenship. As regards instead the field of project designing, Progetto Zattera Blu's role is to help and support the organizations of the consortium to prepare and manage projects (at different levels) by offering our experience and expertise to give value to their knowledge, their networking and network system, their actual human and social resources. However our action does not only focus on the actors directly dealing with projects, but also to the recipients of the projects themselves. In fact, we intend to support project ideas working for the development and the appreciation of all the social actors involved in project activities. In summary, our methodology and approach are based on three key words: EMPOWERMENT: • Strengthening of skills and competences of citizens, above all young people, by supporting their participation to public life, their ‘active citizenship’ ; DEVELOPMENT: • Strengthening of the local and national network