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"Glocal Factory" is a social co-operative legally established in Italy.
Currently it has 9 members, of which 5 employed.
Budgetary resources available in 2019: € 551,789.
Sources of funding: mainly EU funding for projects approved under Call for Proposals.
Glocal Factory elaborates and implements projects of action/research in the social and educational fields. For this, it collaborates with a large network of European universities, NGOs, CSOs, schools'networks and school authorities.
“Glocal Factory” – social Co-operative was born on January 8th, 2018, as a natural evolution of the Association having the same name, founded in 2015 by a group of experts and volunteers – with different age and studies’ background - engaged in European projects in the social and educational fields. Some of its members can boast an experience of many decades in laying out and implementing EU funded projects.
Both the Association and the Co-operative focus their attention on:
- Innovation of contents and methods in formal, non- formal and informal learning for children, adolescents and adults;
- School, work and social inclusion of disadvantaged and vulnerable persons and groups;
- Fight against racism and xenophobia;
- Opposition to the violence against women and children;
- Well-being of young people, quality of youth work;
- Experimentation of new forms of Communitarian and Generative Welfare;
- Promotion of “social economy” and sustainable development.
On these topics the “system Glocal Factory” (Association and Co-operative):
• Realizes international training for teachers, trainers, adult educators and youth workers. At the moment our catalogue include training weeks on: Post – Millennials discomfort; innovative didactic methodologies (notably “Flipped Classroom”); adult education for emarginated people; coaching and “emotional intelligence” in teaching; education to self-entrepreneurship.
• Promotes European projects, working with a wide network of Italian and European public institutions, universities, associations and NGOs. In 2018 Glocal Factory is partner of 4 action / research projects funded by the EU programme “Erasmus Plus”:
o MiGreat! – creation of new tools for refugees and migrants ECVET (Continous Vocational Education and Training) and APL(Acknowledgement of Previous Learning) – www.mi-great.eu
o TrainIot – innovation of school curricula in Informatics and “Internet of Things” – https://train-iot.erasmus-plus
o CultNet – improvement of professional skills of youth workers, notably capacity to use culture and arts to facilitate inclusion of more disadvantaged youngsters – www.cult-net.eu
o Grandmas’ stories – methods and tools for inter-cultural education, using stories told by migrant grandmothers – http://grandmas-story.eu
• Organizes events and seminars, in co-operation with prestigious research centers, like the conference – webinar held on January 18th, 2018 in Verona, Latina, Athens and Thessaloniky on the theme “Contamin-A(c)tion in Europe”, to reflect in a critical and multi-disciplinary way on the European identity, its roots and its possible development.
Furthermore, some members of the Co-Operative are personally engaged in the implementation of other projects funded by Erasmus Plus and concerning the topic of fight against Early School Leaving, and by the AMIF programme to promote resettlement and inclusion of refugees and asylum seekers.
Currently (2020) Glocal Factory is project leader of:
Green Seeds (Erasmus Plus project, KA 2, field Education), for the valorization of small decentralized schools;
Prom-Par (Erasmus Plus project, KA 2, field Adult Education), to promote migrants civic education and inclusion.
From January and May 2020 it has elaborated and submitted new 14 projects, regarding many social topics like:
- media, critical thinking and fight against fake news;
- substances use disorders;
- civic education for children;
- alliance of elders and migrants to promote inclusion, social cohesion end volunteering;
- mentoring for migrants' inclusion;
- community-based experiences for refugees welcoming;
- migrant women empowerment.
The members of GF are engaged in these months in a self- training on the social scenarios of the post-Covid crisis. We therefore believe that we can offer to the Italian network of the Foundation a series of stimuli on phenomena that could be faced with the use of European programs.
Because we believe that the social and economic problems of the Mediterranean countries, in the next decade, can be solved only thanks to a close cooperation between states, local authorities and NGOs of the different countries. We would like to make our small contribution to the commitment to the protection of human rights, the reduction of military spending, the development of social and green entrepreneurship, the employability of young people, the management of migration flows useful for all countries in the area, and for intercultural and interreligious dialogue.