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Report C1 Event Italy

The C1 event of the KA2 AEF YOUTH project was held in Italy, specifically in the town of Massa. It was a C1 EVENT: SP-YOUTH-SHORT-TRAIN

Most of the participants were located in private accommodation called Hotel Annuziata, in Massa. In total there were 10 participants from 5 different associations (MAD for Europe, Asociatia EU-RO-IN, Training to Malta, Agrupamento de Escolas de Benavente and I.E.S SANTA ENGRACIA). From Italy host organization, SERINDFORM SRL, there were 2 of them and a Psychologist.

Partners who went to this Meeting

Mad for Europe: Katia Maccarone and Marta Sáez

Agrupamento de Escolas de Benavente: Carlos Carvalhal Gomes and Paulo Castro Lopes

ASOCIATIA EU-RO-IN: Elena Anghel and Carmen Ilas

I.E.S Santa Engracia: Montserrat González Fernández and Ana María Mingoarranz Ortiz

SERINDFORM SRL: Elisa Pedrini and Giuliano Pietro Baracchini

Training to Malta: Giuseppe Corigliano and Ferdinando Comerci

There was also the participation of a Psychologist from Italy: Michela Manfredi

Monday 2nd July

This was the first day of the meeting and all partners started with a reception of the partners in the Meeting Room of SERINDFORM. They delivered the material and MAD for Europe explained an introduction of the activities of the short term joint staff of the Training Event. Later, also MAD for Europe, presented the best practices of Spain and they all had a debate. The module about they talked about was the “Equality between men and women”. This topic is very important because a lot of the problems of gender violence start from this.

Because it was the first day of the training course, although the partners already knew each other, they made a brief explanation of the project so that the attendees who could not attend the first meeting in Malta, could understand with a general idea all the project.

Tuesday 3rd July

On Tuesday, we met again in the Meeting Room of SERIDNFORM. The coordinator presented the work plan:

The first six months of the Project implementation as a whole
Project Management, administration, documentation and dissemination
The confirmation of the Project Committee for each partner organization
Q&A Session

MAD for Europe also explained the creation of the social media, the website, the Google Drive and the first tasks. The financial rules where an important point in this presentation.

After this introduction, Training to Malta and AE Benavente presented their Best Practices: a general introduction and National Data of the Gender Violence situation in each country and their Educational Module. They both talked about two interesting methods: Training to Malta about a PC game for students called PROSAVE and AE Benavente about practical tool called PADLET that consist in asking to the students some questions after they show them a video related with gender violence between young people.

All partners had a Social Lunch in the Meeting Room ordered by SERINDFORM

After lunch, IES Santa Engracia presented their Best Practices and they explained some cases of gender violence referred to schools in Spain and in their institute.

Wednesday 4th July

The meeting started with the presentation of the Best Practices of EU-RO-IN and SERINDFORM. They explained the National Data of their countries and the Module that they had to present about gender violence. EU-RO-IN had two different modules and they talked about the gender empowerment, their consequences and also about how to prevent the discussions of men and women, that generates later violence.

The main topic of the module that SERINDFORM presented was the importance of communication and how young people have to deal with this problem with a good communication between them.

After this, SERINDFORM organized a meeting with a Scholastic Executive who explained different methods and models applied within the prevention of juvenile gender violence. She talked about the local board education in Italy, comparing with other countries. Each partner discussed about what measures do they have in their countries about education, and they had different methods. Also, she explained some campaigns related with the topic that had been very important and projects about education, relationships and family. Some of them are “Scola & Familia” or “Amore Instabilitá Violenza”.

She explained that she worked in a local education sector where every three months they meet to analyze where do woman assist then they suffer gender violence. They also discuss with teachers because they think it’s very important to know how to educate children.

All partners debate their ideas and techniques that they apply every day in their school. It was really successful because each one contributed a lot of ideas for the project.

Later, we went to a cultural visit to the Quarries of Marble of Carrara. SERINDFORM organized a great trip to this part of Italy and we had a tour visit with a guide that explained us the history of that part of Carrara, the importance of the Marble and other interesting topics. Later, we had a social lunch.

Thursday 5th July

The coordinator, MAD for Europe, explained to the rest of the partners the Joint Document on non formal activities to prevent Juvenile Gender Violence. All the partners had to approve it: structure of the preparation of the document, open debate on the content, discussion on how to adapt best practices to the document, deadlines…

After this, they had a Debate with the Psychologist that attended all the sessions of this course.

First the psychologist started with a brief explanation about the adolescents and the importance of the different phases. She discussed about the importance of growing and educating a child in a healthy or problematic family. In the case of living in a healthy home, the chances of the child being less problematic are lower because he is accustomed to a good environment.

Another fundamental point in the session was the importance of knowing how the adolescent will react to any situation, or how he will not do it. Therefore, having a good connection between father and son is one of the reasons why adolescence can be happier. Also, she explained that the communication between the family can be “non-verbal”.

The session continued with another interesting topic: people shouldn’t praise the children for doing things well, they have to do them. It is important to take that for granted, so when they do something wrong, their parents have to tell them. Referring also to the teachers, the psychologist emphasized that for an older person to understand the point of view of the adolescent, he has to find himself first.

Another topic they discussed about was the test that it will be given to the students at the beginning of the next course, and they also debated on how to deal with students in the project implementation within schools. The test will have a brief and general introduction and will also be anonymous. It is necessary to emphasize that it is not a psychological test, it is to know well what the adolescents think about the subject of gender violence.

Friday 6th July

On the last day, they discussed the final Approving of the test elaborated by SERINDFORM (Q&A Session).

They also had the final conclusions: