SAMISI STIMULATING AWARENESS ON MIGRATION THROUGH INTEGRATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION - EXAMPLE OF YOUTH ORGANISATION
PUBLISHED BY: Erasmus Student Network Italia- ESN ITALIA Sede Operativa: Via Giuseppe Rondinini, 9 - 00169 SedeRomaLegale: Via Anastasio II, 80 - 00165 Roma Codice Fiscale 92105850348 - Partita IVA This02507830343booklethas been developed under the project “SAMISI - Stimulating Awareness on Migration through Integration and Social Inclusion” with the support of the Erasmus+ Student and Alumni Alliance funded by the European Union.
We would like to express our appreciation to our five local sections: ESN Brescia, ESN Chieti Pescara, ESN Macerata, ESN Napoli and ESN Pisa for their dedica ted work on this project and all amazing events they Thisorganised.booklet reflects the opinions of Erasmus Stu dent Network Italy and their individual writers, not necessarily those of the European Union or Era smus+ Student and Alumni Alliance who funded the SAMISI - “Stimulating Awareness on Migration through Integration and Social Inclusion” project.
OFTABLE CONTENTS 01 About SAMISI project 02 SAMISI training course 03 SAMISI local actions 04 Meet ESN Italy 05 Appendix: Activity Implementation Reports
About01. projectSAMISI
SAMISI - Stimulating Awareness on Migration throu gh Integration and Social Inclusion is a project of ESN Italy that started in February 2022 and ended in July of 2022. The project arose from the necessity to facilitate the integration of the increasing number of incoming political migrants in Italy, in the Italian Uni versities and in the student environment in general. The aim of the project was to improve the lives of students with migration background in the acade mic and social environment and, simultaneously, raise awareness among the higher education instutions and the general student population on the topics of migration, social inclusion, intercultural awareness and understanding. Due to the recent political and humanitarian crisis, it is crucial to work on the facili tation of the integration of students with migration background in the academic world, promoting their social inclusion, empowerment and participation.
01.02.2022 31.07.2022 TRAINING
The training was conducted with the help of a diver se group of experts, including both internal trainers from ESN Italy and external experts.
The first activity of the SAMISI project was a training course. SAMISI training included a week of non-for mal education activities for 25 ESN Volunteers (parti cipants) aimed at training them on management and facilitation of groups with migrants, doing advocacy activities within universities, social inclusion, migration issues and awareness-raising.
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During the training our internal trainers helped our participants to plan local actions. Also, our internal trainers carried out evaluation session.
Meet the SAMISI trainers Giovanni Telesca President of ESN Italy 2020-2021, Eduk8 Facilitator, and Gene ral Assembly Chair of ESN AISBL 2022/2023 ChiaraFerrari Activity and Training Manager of ESN Italy 2022
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External experts we hosted during the SAMISI training:
Insaf Dimassi, activist for political, civil, and human rights with a degree in International Law, expe rienced in assistance and linguistic-cultural media tion services, in particular for political refugees and asylum seekers introduced our participants to the topic of migration.
Luca Martelli, cultural project manager (Aurive) presented a session on the topics of “Migrants and social inclusion” and “How to organize innova tive events”.
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Ada Andreoni, co-leader of the Systems Change module and the Wellbeing module of the Ashoka Europe Fellowship Pro gram (Ashoka) presen ted a session on “Frame and System Change” and “How to identify and communicate theactivity”.ofimpactyour
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The second activity of the SAMISI project were actions in local communities. Our five local ESN sections (ESN Brescia, ESN Chieti Pescara, ESN Ma cerata, ESN Napoli & ESN Pisa) each month from May to July planned and implemented different acti vities in their local communities aimed at integration and raising awareness of the topic of political migra tion among academic institutions and the general student population. Our sections used different formats of activities and cooperated with different stakeholders in their local communities in order to achieve high impact. You can find more details about the events at 05.
Appendix: Activity Implementation Reports
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ActivitiesCulturalNightatthemosque(ESNBrescia,20/06/22)
MEETgration: World Refugee Day with the AstalliCentroSud, (ESN Napoli, 19/06/22)
writing and speaking arabic language (ESN Chieti Pescara, 30/06/22)
Meet &Speak; immigration and ActivitiesInformal(ESNinclusion-tandemsocialBrescia,31/05/22)
International picnic (ESN Pisa, 18/06/22 A matter of perspective- workshop (ESN Pisa, 11/07/22)
International dinner (ESN Macerata, 03/07/22) MEETgration: International Aperitif, Cultural Date and Blind Game (ESN Napoli, 31/05/22)
The world comes to Brescia- picnic (ESN Brescia, MEETgration:12/07/22)Summer Aperitif and International Picnic (ESN Napoli, 15/07/22)
Sport 4 inclusion (ESN Macerata, 14/06/22) Cineforum- movie under the stars (ESN Chieti Pescara 05/06/22)
Conference: Migration, University and Volunteering. ESN as a bridge to integration (ESN Macerata, ActivitiesFormal25/05/22)
Un caffè con ESN migrACTIONPisa: (ESN Pisa, 28/05/22)
Erasmus Student Network Italy is the Italian le vel of the Erasmus Student Network AISBL (ESN), one of the biggest European student organiza tions whose main aim is to promote and support international mobility among students. ESN Italy is a non-profit organization that works as the administrative and coordinating body of the 53 ESN sections on Italian territory. It was officially founded in 1994 by the members of the 7 oldest Italian ESN sections, to give a stronger continuity and coordination to their regular activities.
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To welcome foreign students who come to Italy for a study visit in one of the Italian universities, supporting them in finding accommodation, men toring, and organizing events to promote their integration in the hosting country;
To inform the local students about the European program opportunities, with a specific focus on exchanges between universities;
To promote active citizenship and youth enga gement in accordance with ESN mission “the enrichment of society through international stu dents”.
To implement projects in line with the main objectives of the Erasmus+ Programme.
With about 2000 volunteers, the aims of ESN Italy are:
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The event was divided in two parts, the first one was the welcome part in which the participants were invited to have dinner together with people they probably haven’t met yet so they can meet new people and get ready to talk about deeper topics during the second part.
During the second half of the evening the parti cipants were invited to move to the next room where we prepared six different tables divided by language. Before they started to work in their own language tables, we did an introduction in which we explained what the SAMISI project is, we shared our experience during the training course in Rome and we presented several stati stics about immigration in Italy. After the presentation we started to talk at each table in Italian, Spanish, French, English, Ger man and Russian about the topic. In each table there was a guide that had several questions prepared so the debate could be started from there. An hour later after listening to different points of view and practising a foreign language we did an activity altogether that consisted
Reports by ESN Brescia
NAME OF THE ACTIVITY MEET & SPEAK: Immigration and Social inclusion
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Corso31/05/2022Mameli, 47 - Brescia
DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY
iin a Kahoot with questions related to the data projected during the introductory part and con nected also to the questions discussed at each language table. We chose this specific format of event because we’ve seen in the past how people are very inte rested in practising a new language, so we saw that as an opportunity to also talk about a topic we consider important such as immigration and social inclusion. Each moderator was prepared to mediate possible difficult situations that for tunately didn’t take place during the event.
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Most of the people that attended to the event were students from Brescia and international students that are doing their Erasmus semester here in our city. We had 52 participants during the event that were split almost in half women and half men from several nationalities that are specified in the attendance list in a range of age between 20-30.
AEGEE helped us by sharing some advice about the way we should organise an event in this kind of format as they have some experience organi sing linguistic aperitifs.
COMMUNICATION OF ACTIVITY
We spread the word about the event through our social media accounts such as Instagram and facebook as an association and then we
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also shared the event and its description in our whatsapp groups that are the best way we have to communicate with the Erasmus studen ts and our classmates from university. This is the picture we shared on out social media accounts.
CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACTIVITY
The challenge we thought it would be bigger is the fact that this event was about a sensitive topic, so the main concern was related to the level of attendance to the event. But thanks to the advice from Luca Martelli that highlighted the importance of offering food as a way to at tract more participants we managed to welco me more than 50 people that night, people that were very interested about the topic and that were open minded to listen to different points of view.
Night at the Mosque: An Intercultural Experience
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Via20/06/2022Corsica, 361 Brescia
DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY
The event started at 19.30 at the Islamic Cultu ral Centre of Brescia with an introduction about the SAMISI project, ESN Brescia and the GMI (Young Italian Muslims). We continued the event with several groups of participants learning how to wear a hijab, both male and female, other groups were listening to the Coran and being interviewed by the Muslim youth of the centre to talk about why they were there and what to expect from the event. We proceed to the next activity, a multicultural dinner with some typical dishes from Pakistan, in which the participants got the chance to have one to one conversations with the youth from the Muslim centre.
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After the dinner we were divided in men and women in two different rooms to participate in their moment of prayer and get immerse in their Afterwardsculture. we did a tour at the mosque and once we finished, we gave the chance to the participants to continue with their conversations in which people got the chance to create a
The participants who attended to the event were mostly between 18 and 30 from different nationalities, including many Italians with inter national backgrounds. The participants included Erasmus students, students from Brescia, ESN volunteers and the youth of the GMI.
To communicate the event to the people from Brescia we used the social media accounts from our ESN section and also our personal accounts (Instagram, Facebook), whatsapp groups were also another channel where to let people know about the event as is the most used channel to communicate with our Erasmus students here in Brescia, other associations also shared the Go ogle form to participate, including our partners from GMI.
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Our external partner this time was the GMI (Gio vani musulmani d’Italia) because they were open to the idea of having an event with ESN in whi ch they opened their doors to us to create an event in which the participants got the chance to see, get to know and experience one night at the Mosque with all the activities that were part of the night.
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dialogue and make questions related to impor tant topics of today’s society and what the Mu slim youth think about it.
PARTICIPANTS
One of the challenges this time was the involve ment of the Erasmus students as many of them went back to their countries already and others as well as Italian students are in the middle of their exams period, we promoted a lot the event in every possible group and also the youth from the GMI did the same, so in the end the atten dance to the event was higher than expected for this particular time of the year.During the introduction of the event, we had problems with the projector that thanks to the capability of the presenters to communicate well without the need of the PowerPoint presentation and still involve the participants during this introductory moment.
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DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY
Parco12/07/2022Castelli (Via Benedetto Castelli 11, Bs)
We have a little more than 30 participants at this event of which most of them were students from Brescia and some of the remaining Era smus students from different countries.
The world comes to Brescia
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The activity consisted in an international picnic in which the participants were invited to bring something from the country they are from, or they have lived in, like food, stories, poetries, son gs, dances, or objects.
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It started with the international dinner with some traditional Greek and middle east food provided by ESN plus some typical dishes that the parti cipants brough and continued with the exchan ge of cultures from the participants with a little presentation of each of the objects, stories, po etries that the participants brought to the event to share with everyone.
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No external partners were involved for this event.
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COMMUNICATION OF ACTIVITY
We promoted the event through all our social media pages such as facebook and Instagram, shared the invitation through our several what sapp groups and invited also some other asso ciations that like to participate to ESN events in Brescia.
The main challenge for this event was the fear of low participations as the event was made in a date where lots of students are still in exam period and lots of the Erasmus students already went back to their own countries, so the possi bility to make an international dinner decreased a little by that so we decided to contact inter national restaurants from Brescia to bring also typical dishes from other countries by our own to increase the internationality aspect of the event.
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Aula25/08/2022Rossa2, Polo Pantaleoni (via della Pescheria Vecchia 26)
DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY
The conference was about migration and how the different realities we invited work to support social integration. After a brief introduction, we had the speech of Professor Benedetta Giova nola from UniMc, who talked about the approach and the various procedures and projects Univer sity of Macerata is going to apply for these the mes. Then there were speeches from Eleonora Santoni and Anna Paola Fabri from Polo9, an association operating in Ancona and Macerata and from Alex Amanze from ACSIM Macerata, which also deals with migrants providing them help, Italian courses and other things to promote migrants to live integrated in our society; these are two associations dealing with migrants and social makinginclusion,housing, activities etc, hence they talked about their local realities and how they approa ch these themes, giving some tips and examples.
Conferenza: Migrazione, Università and Volonta riato. ESN come ponte verso l’integrazione socia le
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We promoted the activity on Instagram and Facebook by sharing the event or the stories from the Section’s page, plus on our Whatsapp’s group with other Erasmus people and by word of mouth. The owner of Caffè Corso, where we made the buffet, sticked a flyer of our event as an advertising. We don’t have videos, because
There were 24 participants attending at the event: mostly ESNers, but also Erasmus students and some local students, besides the six spea kers: the age rate of the participants was from 20 to 30 years old.
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COMMUNICATION OF ACTIVITY
We invited Professor Benedetta Giovanola and the local IRO manager Antonella Tiberi, Chiara Ferrari from ESN Italy, Alex Amanze from ACSIM Macerata, Eleonora Santoni and Anna Paola Fa bri from Polo9 as lectures; plus we had the buf fet at Caffè Corso.
We also had a speech from Chiara Ferrari as RAF of ESN Italy, who talked about the mission and values of our Association and how these are related to the themes of our conference. After all the speeches, there were some questions about how to act in order to raise the aware ness for this topic. The event lasted an hour and half; after that we had a buffet for all the parti cipants at Caffè Corso, in Corso della Repubblica 31.
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At first we had some troubles with our guests, because they replied to our emails with delay, but luckily everything was fine in the end; moreover we had a little less participation as our expectations, maybe because of the start of exams period, but we are satisfied the way the event went.
We promoted the event through all our social media pages such as facebook and Instagram, shared the invitation through our several what sapp groups and invited also some other asso ciations that like to participate to ESN events in Brescia.
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There were 21 participants , including our vo lunteers, Erasmus students and migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and South America.
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Volleyball Match: Sport 4 Inclusion
Campo14/06/2022sportivo
via Dante Alighieri
DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY
We had a volleyball match together with our Erasmus students and some migrants staying in Macerata. In fact, we believe that sport is the best way to start a social inclusion, since it links and does not divide. We made mixed teams to promote inclusion and befriend to the others and we played for a couple of hours. After that, we made a couple of typical foreign games, like “Daruma-san ga koronda” (which is the Japanese version of Italian “Un due tre stella”), in order to raise the participants’ awareness of the diffe rences of other cultures, starting from sports. At the end, we had a snack with pizza and drank some water to recover from the fatigue. The pizza was provided by “Pinseria Bonobo 2”, which also deals with fragile people, working on their job inclusion; we thought this could be the best way to include various local realities that deal with the main topic of the project and our activities.
We promoted the activity on Instagram by sha ring the event or the stories from the Section’s page and on our Whatsapp group with other Erasmus people, plus by word of mouth.
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The age range was 20-30 years old.
We contacted “Centro d’Ascolto e di Prima Ac coglienza Caritas” (through Caritas Macerata) and thanks to them we got in touch with some local migrants and we invited them to our even ts. Plus, we contacted Pinseria Bonobo 2, a pin seria in Macerata, working on the job inclusion of fragile people, for pizza and drinks. The owner of the pinseria was very happy of our activity and we think we can work again with them!
COMMUNICATION OF ACTIVITY
At first we had a little issue with the volleyball net for the match, but we succeeded to fix it before the starting of the event. Moreover, we hoped to have more participants, but due to exams ses sion, the departure of lots of our Erasmus and the little availability of local migrants (due to other activities of theirs or because of their lack of knowledge of English in order to communica te with them in presence), there were less than expected. But still, we are very satisfied and now we know how to improve these activities!
CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACTIVITY
First we had a “discussion round”, where we talked about who we are, what we do and the purpose of the activity. Then we met our guests talk about their lives in Macerata, where they come from and what they do now, their hopes and dreams, we talked about the differences between our cultures (music, reliigion, festivities etc.) and we got some tips from them on how to raise the awareness for the topic on mi gration and tolerance. After the discussion round (which lasted almost one hour), we had an inter national dinner; it was an amazing moment, since every guest made and brought some typical dish from his country, we asked for recipes and we spoke about everything and anything. During the dinner, one Afghan guest started to rap a freestyle for us, we had such a great time... it’s true that also food links! The nicest thing is that migrants asked us to hold the discussion round in italian, because they wanted to train themsel ves to keep a conversation in italian, even if they were not very comfortable or fluent with the language.
DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY
DATE AND PLACE OF THE ACTIVITY Galleria03/07/2022degli Antichi Forn (via Piaggia della Torre, 4)
NAME OF THE ACTIVITY International Dinner
There were 19 participants , including our volun teers, migrants from Pakistan and Afghanistan and one local student who saw our event and joined us. The age range was 20-30 years old.
As for the previous event, we contacted “Centro d’Ascolto e di Prima Accoglienza Caritas” (throu gh Caritas Macerata) and thanks to them we got in touch with some local migrants and we invited them to our events. We also con tacted the city hall for the availability of the location.
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We promoted the activity on Instagram by sha ring the event or the stories from the Section’s page and on our Whatsapp group with other Erasmus people, plus by word of mouth. Here’s the graphic for our event:
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CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACTIVITY
Unfortunately there weren’t Erasmus students at this event, because they left Macerata at the end of June. Another little issue was that they weren’t very fluent with the italian language, but we appreciated a lot their enterprise, so we talked slowlier in order to let them understand better.
MEETgration was an event composed by three activities: International Aperitif, Cultural Date and Blind Game. We chose this kind of event be cause it seemed to be the easiest to organize, considering that we had no much time available (about 16 days after the end of the Training Course). We took advantage of the fact that we have already met the owner of The Florist on the occasion of another event. She also could cook for us international dishes and the bar had a beautiful garden where the Erasmus could stay. The participants arrived around 6/6.30 p.m. and after signing the attendance list, the internatio nal aperitif began. The owner of the bar spent many years abroad so she cooked for us vegetable couscous, hummus and pita which were very appreciated by the Erasmus. They also tried Carcadé, a tea infusion made from the petals of red hibiscus flowers, typical of Africa. After the aperitif we started the Cultural Date in groups, because it seemed to be better than
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MEETgration International Aperitif and Cultural Activities
Reports by ESN Napoli
The31/05/2022FloristBar,
Via Michele Tenore, 8, 80100, Napoli
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in couple for stimulating conversation and making everyone comfortable. We suggested questions based on different topics, such as typical traditions of the countries, migration, social in clusion and so on. One staff member per table acted as a facilitator for the conversation and the students talked more than an hour about that topics. They also performed folk dances and songs. It was a very stimulating and enga ging conversation. Finally, we started the blind game, even if the space was not very large. We recommended the students to bring some foulards. For those who didn’t have one, we took care of it bringing some foulards from home. We blindfolded them and explained the game. After an initial moment of confusion, they got involved and started to play. We made sure that everyo ne felt comfortable with this activity, which is very intimate. After they found their partners, the game ended. At that point, we thanked all participants and gave them appointment for the next event.
PARTICIPANTS 6 ESN Napoli staff, 18 Erasmus Age range between 20 - 29 years old 9 M and 15 Nationalities:F Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Israel, Gree Spain,ce, Romania, Chile, Turkey, Lithuania.
EXTERNAL PARTNERS/ EXPERTS INVOLVED IN THE ACTIVITY
We had no partner for this event, we only asked the owner of the Florist bar if she could host us for this afternoon.
COMMUNICATION OF ACTIVITY MEETgration: when Erasmus+ meets Migration MEETgrationissues is designed as a meeting between Erasmus and migration issues, and adapted to the various formats depending on the proposed event. Each event is connected to the other by a fil rouge, which is kind of a meeting. Hence the word play MEETgration. By means of a build-up, with the Communication campaign we attempt to build up the loyalty of Erasmus to the events, making them interested in event after event in the entire SAMISI project, which then becomes a shared path. All our communication campaign was made on our Social Media (Instagram, Face book).
When it comes to dealing with such a sensiti ve topic, one could feel powerless facing these challenges but we were able to adapt, especially during Cultural activities that require care and attention, since we were from different cultu res and backgrounds. We wanted to be sure everyone would feel included and comfortable by doing these activities.
CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACTIVITY
For the second event, we celebrated the World Refugee Day in collaboration with an immigration center in the province of Naples, in Grumo Ne vano. Our idea was to meet immigrants in their “home” and stimulate a dialogue with Internatio nal students about topics like migration and so cial inclusion. We chose this kind of event becau se it seemed to be the best way to sensibilize about that topics, considering that in Samisi TC we did the same and it was a beautiful and im pressive experience. We took advantage of the fact that Francesca had already met the refe rent of Centro Astalli, Noemi, so she talked with her and ask for a collaboration for this event, that they were already planning to organize in occasion of the World Refugee Day, in the Isti tuto San Gabriele, with other associations. The event took place in the beautiful garden of the Istituto San Gabriele, where all immigrants met volunteers from other association and our In ternational students. Davide met the Erasmus in Garibaldi station in Naples to help them with train tickets and to accompain them in the journey
Istituto19/06/2022San Gabriele, Corso Garibaldi 18, Grumo Nevano NA
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NAME OF THE ACTIVITY MEETgration, episode 2: World Refugee Day
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DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY
when Erasmus+ meets Migration issues MEETgration
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the proposed event.
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Centro Astalli Sud, Istituto San Gabriele
MEETgration: is designed as a meeting and adapted to the various formats depending on Each event is connected to the other by
PARTICIPANTS 3 ESN Napoli staff, 4 Erasmus Age range between 20 - 29 years old 5 M and 2 Nationalities:F Italy, India, Bangladesh EXTERNAL PARTNERS /
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to Grumo Nevano that lasted around 15 minutes. The participants arrived around 11.30 am. and after signing the attendance list, they started a conversation with immigrants about social inclu sion, migration, local tradition and other topics. They took part to some activities, workshops and games. They also listened to a concert cal led “In viaggio si diventa grandi” with Bruno La marca e Aldo Gorgoglione. Then we had an inter national lunch provided by volunteers and Astalli Center with cous cous, pizza and italian food. We also provided food, in particular sushi . After the lunch, Francesca accompained the erasmus to the train station and they came back home. At that point, we thanked all participants and gave them appointment for the next event. EXPERTS ININ THE ACTIVITY
between Erasmus and migration issues,
a fil rouge, which is kind of a meeting. Hence the word play MEETgration. By means of a build-up, with the Communication campaign we attempt to build up the loyalty of Erasmus to the events, making them interested in event after event in the entire SAMISI project, which then becomes a shared path. All our communication campaign was made on our Social Media (Instagram, Face book). For this event we had two types of com munication, based on two different targets: the italian one and the english one.
This event was extremely challenging since we decided to take the risk to plan it in the province of Naples, Grumo Nevano, in order to give people the chance to meet migrants face to face. We were inspired by the visit to the migration center in Rome during SAMISI.
CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACTIVITY
The event took place in the biggest public park of Naples (Capodimonte Park). All the activities were made on the field. At the beginning we made an ice-break game, in order to put the participants at ease. During the game each person had to tell everyone 3 things about himself, 2 true and 1 fal se; the others had to guess which of the three facts was false. We, the organizers, took part in the game as well. After this ice-break, the par ticipants had the opportunity to speak to each other and talk about their countries. We put music in the background during the event. The last activity was a small tour of the park, we took a walk and then we finished the tour at a panoramic viewpoint.
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DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY
NAME OF THE ACTIVITY MEETgration, Episode 3: Summer Aperitif and International Picnic
PARTICIPANTS 2 ESN Napoli Staff, 9 Erasmus students Age range between 20-29 years old 5 F; 6 Nationalities:M Italy, Poland, Romania, Turkey, India, Cile, Iran
Capodimonte15/07/2022 Park, Naples.
MEETgration is designed as a meeting between Erasmus and migration issues, and adapted to the various formats depending on the proposed event. Each event is connected to the other by a fil rouge, which is kind of a meeting. Hence the word play MEETgration. By means of a build-up, with the Communication campaign we attempt to build up the loyalty of Erasmus to the events, making them interested in event after event in the entire SAMISI project, which then becomes a shared path. All our communication campaign was made on our Social Media (Instagram, Face book). For this event we had one type of com munication targeted to International students/in terns, former but also newest, since a lots were leaving and a few were already in Naples. Currently, we’re still working on the final content by gathering all the materials we’ve been pro ducing for these three events. We already pu blished three different carousels, and now we’re planning on publishing a serie of Reels for each event of SAMISI.
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We had no partner for this event, we only con tacted an external partner to provide the aperi tif.
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The main risk was the period during which the event had to be organised, since being mid-July and thus the end of the semester there was a risk of having no participants.
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DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY
First part: The mediators opened the “Caffè con ESN Pisa” presenting themselves and the President of the Section. The latter spoke about the SAMISI project, the format of the event and what would be the main topic.
Scuola28/05/2022superiore
The event was divided into four sections (plus a buffet) and the duration was around 2 hours. The debate focused on political migration to Italy and how Italy reacts and works to include peo ple with a migratory background. In particular, we wanted to focus on those experiences of less privileged migrations, people escaping war, who come to Italy to look for a new chance of life, compared to those that come only for better working conditions or for study purposes.. Other focus: foreign students. The goal of this event was to try not only to encourage the exchange of ideas, but also to understand how we can, with small gestures, im prove the lives of all these people.
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Un caffè con ESN Pisa: migrACTION
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After listening to the presentations of the va rious guests, the real debate began with que stions asked by the participants or prepared previously by our mediators to have a reaction in the InFourthaudience.part:thelatterpart, the moderators pulled the threads of the discussion and posed one last question: ”How can we all positively influence and create a welcoming environment for people arri ving, students and not?”
Second part:
All the guests were introduced (which we will present more broadly in the next part.), giving them 10 minutes to present themselves, by saying who they are and what they do and then we asked them a relevant question, already agreed previously.
Before concluding, the President of ESN Pisa gave more information about the next event scheduled for the SAMISI project: the Internatio nal AfterPicnic.the thanks, all the guests took part in the buffet to continue the discussion informally and have the opportunity to discuss possible future collaborations.
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Afterwards, they presented an afghanistan girl, a student of the school of advanced studies Sant’anna, who talked about her experience. The aim was to try to give a background to each of the pax and create the right environment to en courage the exchange of ideas.
We wanted to publish the event two weeks be fore the date of the meeting but this was im possible due to the late training and the more late communication about how to create the graphic material, so we ended publishing everything just one week before the event.
We had two guests on the institutional side, two representatives of the international relations offices: one from the University of Pisa and one from the school of advanced study Sant’Anna. We decided to involve the university to have a discussion on how this reality works, in their small, for the reception of migrants. Then we involve some local associations such as: Amnesty, Emergency, Strong Community NGO and Arte Migrante. Each of these is active in Pisa on the theme of migration in different areas and we wanted to involve them to have more diffe rent points of view.
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The event was open to every type of parti cipant: local students, international students, non-students, professors, anyone who wanted to discuss or learn a little more about the topic was welcome. At the end we reached 32 parti cipants, the main nationality was Italian but we also had someone from Ukraine, Gabon, Paki stan,Turkey, France,Hungary, US.
COMMUNICATION OF ACTIVITY
We made a facebook event, here is the link: Moreover,f=newsfeeds/3118409961713917/?rehttps://www.facebook.com/eventwepreparedaninstagram post and story; for the tickets we used eventbrite, so we have created the event also there. On instagram we have also posted two sets of graphics about who will be our guests.
Finally, we published the event on our telegram group with our Erasmus and we sent some mes sages to various associations here in pisa. Our event was also promoted by the university, via their telegram group, thanks to the international relationship office of the University of Pisa. The school of advanced studies of Sant’Anna shared the event on their mailing list and posted some flyers.
Anotheradvance.problem linked to the short time we had to organise the activities was the possibility of inviting local organisations. We were afraid to not have any association. Because of that, we invited a lot of people and at the end we had too many guests and too little time for the discussion. Finally, as staff, we haven’t had sufficient prepa ration on the topic; therefore, it was difficult to facilitate the discussion. Anyway, every problem we had was related to the timing we had to organise the event.
CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACTIVITY
We had a lot of problems finding a location be cause the training course was made so late that we had just one week to find a location, at the end, thanks to one of our volunteer that is ma king a Phd in the School of Advanced study of Sant’Anna, because the school answered to the email we send them with the internal address and they agreed to host the event. In our uni versity, it is very difficult to reserve a class, as a matter of fact we need to ask for it a lot in
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At the end we reached 23 participants. The main nationality was Italian but we also had people from Morocco, Costa Rica, Spain, Para guay, Albania, France, Romania, Lituania, Turkey...
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Parco18/06/2022delleConcette (Pisa)
During the International Picnic Day, we went outside to enjoy food and nature with friends. We spread tablecloths and towels on which we put food from different parts of the world: India, Mexico, Syria and Lebanon, Greece and some regions of Italy. Next to the dishes we wrote the names and ingredients, so that those with aller gies could eat safely. We used reusable plates and cutlery. A guy who works in the restaurant who brought us food from Mexico explained one of their dishes (mole): an ancient dish, of Aztec origin.
The event was open to every type of parti cipant: local students, international students, non-students, etc.
International Picnic
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We thought that the best way to realise the event was to involve some restaurants from different cultures that we have here in Pisa, we chose those because of the difference between them and because the owner was so excited to help us spread awareness about the migration.
We involved in the activities some local re staurants: Tandoori (Indian cuisine), Al Madina (Syrian-Lebanese cuisine), Makedonia (Greek cuisi ne) and Casa Tizoc (Mexican cuisine).
We published everything just one week before the event because the organisation and the lo cation didn’t give use a strict number, everything was more free than the last time. We made a facebook event, here is the link: Moreover,https://fb.me/e/2xSwmPnlUwepreparedan instagram post and story; for the tickets we used eventbrite, so we have created the event also there.
COMMUNICATION OF THE ACTIVITY
Finally, we published the event on our telegram group with our Erasmus and we sent some mes sages to various associations here in pisa.
CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACTIVITY
We had some problems about the participation of the Erasmus students, an effective way to improve the general engagement in this event could be to organise it during spring (maybe in may) or autumn (for example in November): these two periods of time might be the best for stu dents, since they are not in the middle of exam season and therefore probably more open to the idea of taking part in other activities. Another way of implementing the number of participants might have been writing the copy of the event in a better, more eye-catching way, inviting Erasmus students to actively participate and make typical dishes from their home coun tries (just two Erasmus actually brought food/drinks, all the others just came to eat the food already prepared). Again, the short time available to organise the event was against us. With a little bit more time, it would have been interesting to include in this experience other moments of a different kind of cultural exchan ge, such as: reading of poems and literary pieces from every, country whose food was at the pic nic; listening to the folk music of a specific coun try. And, if there was the chance, inviting anyone who wanted to sing and dance, gave more time to the presentation of the single dishes, talking about their history and their hypothetical natio nal, regional or local varieties and so on.
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A matter of perspective: come mettersi nei pan ni dei migranti
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The participants learnt to put themselves in the shoes of migrants; they became more aware of the causes of migration, of the various differen ces between categories of migrants, and they also tried to understand how to make the life of others better with small gestures. The issue of political migration has been and will always be a strong debated topic around the world. People often find themselves talking about this topic without having enough knowled ge about it. With this workshop the participants began to be more conscious about this through moments of explanation and discussion, about the causes of migrations and the differences between the various types of migrants. We also had an active part where they found themselves in the shoes of some migrants. We ended the workshop with some tips on how to help migrants and a small poem that the trainer read to leave a final trace of everything that had been done and invite the participants to, once again, think about migration.
concette (Pisa)
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Parco11.07.2022delle
PARTICIPANTS
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The event was open to every type of parti cipant: local students, international students, non-students, etc. At the end we reached 12 participants. All participants were from Italy.
We chose to not involve any external partner/ expert because during July our staff is busy with the University so we chose to make the event as simple as possible.
For the trainer and facilitator we used two vo lunteers of our Staff and for the buffet we sim ply bought pizza, fruits and snacks at the super market
COMMUNICATION OF THE ACTIVITY
For this event we used Instagram as the only platform for communication: we posted an informative graphic on our feed, using the indica ted hashtags, and we posted two stories: one published on the same day of the post and the other as a reminder the day of the event. You can see the graphics below.
CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACTIVITY
We didn’t have much trouble organising the event. It was not the first time that the trainer and facilitator were working together, so the workshop took place without problems. We could however improve the activity based on the sug gestions from who has participated.
