Via Bernardino Lanino 3/a
10152 Torino TO
Italy
- Youth and education
Giosef Torino is an organisation of social promotion, its board is made up of three people: Annamaria Simeone, president, Francesco Lisciandra, vice president, Sara Bertolino, project management. On top of that 7 professional workers and about 20 volunteers consistently collaborate with the organisation. Giosef Torino cooperates with multiple partners at local, national and international level.
The budgetary resources available to Giosef Torino are roughly 120 000 euros per year.
The funding network is composed of public local and european funds such as Erasmus+, European Solidarity Corps, REC , some funding is also private by both foundations and private donors.
Strategic partnership, Training courses, Youth Exchanges, Local workshop and Seminars and events. The Main Partners of Giosef are Fondazione Emmanuel, Centro Studi Sereno Regis, YWCA Palestine, New Generation and many others throughout the South Mediterranean area.
Giosef Torino is an association of social promotion.
Giosef is the acronym derived from “GIOvani SEnza Frontiere”, “Youth Without Borders”. Being without frontiers is the strength to reach a better world, breaking the frame with no fear, looking beyond the appearances, stating our believes. We see in our work the opportunity to affirm Human Rights in all their aspects and contradictions, in order to promote a culture of anti-sexism and anti-racism, to counter all forms of discrimination and prejudice.
The core objectives pursued by our association are:
YOUTH WORK AND NON FORMAL EDUCATION: to produce social change through Non Formal Education on Human Rights;
INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH: to promote an anti-sexist, anti-racist culture against omo-lesbo-bi-transphobia, xenophobia, islamophobia and all forms of discrimination through an intersectional perspective;
INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATION: to promote participation and active citizenship of young people to counter social exclusion and to promote human, civil and social rights;
EUROMEDITERRENEAN COOPERATION: to promote the cooperation between European Countries and Partner Countries from the South Mediterranean regions for fostering social cohesion in Mediterranean area;
INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY: to promote international mobility and intercultural learning among youth.
Founded in 2004, Giosef Unito is actively working with Non Formal Education methodologies for young learners and since 2013 we have started to implement techniques coming from theatrical methodology in the frame of NFE. Our work is based on our certainty that new educational paradigms are needed in a fast changing society where Formal Education strategies cannot respond with the same pace to the recent challenges and developments, like the current migrants and refugees crisis in Europe.
Giosef Unito continued to cooperate with a large range of partners and interlocutors: we believe it is essential to create synergies between Formal and Non Formal Education organizations, third sector, mass media and public administrations in order to maximize the impact of our activities in line with the Agenda 2020 of the European Union.
Giosef Unito is striving for such joint effort among all the above mentioned stakeholders, keeping a permanent flow of communication, cooperation and debate around the main challenges related to the promotion of Human Rights. In order to maintain the widest perspective possible, we have developed a strong focus on intersectionality: we are fully convinced that we need to keep in mind all the identity components that contribute to each one’s self perception if we want to dismantle all the forms of discrimination. We are aware, for example, that it’s impossible to tackle islamophobia without considering the racist dynamics that lay under this specific discriminatory expression, as well as we cannot fight homophobia without analysing the traditionally constructed forms of sexism.
We completely agree with the key concept in Audre Lorde’s work: “there is no such thing as single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives”.
Giosef Torino main projects are built on European funding and deeply rooted in EuroMed culture and issues. They are youth exchanges, training courses, long term volunteering and strategic partnerships for innovation.
Some examples of our main activities include: an Erasmus+ Key Action 2 called "MARTI - MAke it Relevant: Tools for Intersectionality" that aims to create innovative educational approach and tools to concretely apply intersectionality in youth work in collaboration with Euroaccion-Spain, YES-The Netherlands and New Generation-Palestine; an ESC project by the name of "Vis-à-vis Volunteering for Inclusion and Solidarity" to promote solidarity throughout the EuroMediterranean area, developing international volunteering opportunities to foster active citizenship, democratic values and a peer-to-peer cooperation approach; an Erasmus+ Key Action 1, Youth Exchange "CreActive Identity” that aimed to raise awareness about Euro-Mediterranean cultural heritage among young people, through sharing local traditions and artesany"; an Erasmus+ Key Action 1 "GUAT - Gender Upon A Time" 1st, 2nd and 3rd edition that includes several activities such as APVs, Training Courses and a Study Visit in Palestine; a training course called "I-Gender" funded by the Anna Lindh Foundation; "Frame Voice Report", financed by the DARE programme in collaboration with Centro Studi Sereno Regis and the Arab Women Media Centre; and many more.
As an organisation we have been working on promoting participation and active citizenship of young people to counter social exclusion and to promote human, civil and social rights while also promoting the cooperation between European Countries and Partner Countries from the South Mediterranean regions for fostering social cohesion in Mediterranean area. We could share our experience and our contacts with the Network to help provide an EuroMed perspective, especially focusing on youth work and youth policy, though Non Formal, intercultural and experiential learning.
In the frame of ALF Network, Giosef Torino can contribute to promote the Network, its actions and practice at national level especially in the intersection between youth and gender through education and training projects that keep a deep balance between the Euromed and the national/local level.
Since 2014, The organisation has developed several projects in cooperation with Southmeda countries using european funds such as Erasmus Plus, ESC and DARE, demonstrating high competences of management of this specific cooperation; contributing to develop educational approach, methods and tools for intercultural learning in the Region. We would like to share this capacity also in line with objectives of the ALF to strengthen its purpose and foster social cohesion in the Mediterranean area.
We want to join the ALF Network to multiply and contaminate our practices with other organisations and individuals. Being part of a EuroMed network would also allow us to improve our capacity and be more efficient in our practices and objectives to be more efficient in the promotion of intercultural dialogue and learning in the Region, demonstrating the active role of youth in these processes.
We have been a partner of the ALF project in the past and in that frame, we developed strong strategies of cooperation and promotion of the ALF principle which represents the core values of Giosef Torino.