I-DARE ITALY

National Network
Italy
Address

FLLI BANDIERA 17
ARONA
Italy

Telephone
3921335861
E-Mail
federica.demicheli@i-dare.org
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2018
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Research
  3. Youth and education
General Information
I-Dare Italy works primarly about training, researches and social campaign about the topic of preventing youth work against violent radicalisation, extremism and promoting mutual acceptance. I-Dare Italy is running website as knowlegde about about the topic gathering the tools, litterature about the specific role of youth work acting as positive actor for preventing violent radicalisation.The specific experience of I-Dare is in the South Med area developement and in cooperation with youth organisations and about recognition of non formal learning and youth work. I-Dare Italy  is involved in larger parnership connected with the topic of youth work against violent radicalisation and already run 3 training courses in the last year about this topic. The general secretary is working since last year in manging international projects from content wise point of view as amministrative one. The staff is actually 4 people that came to this project from their different professional backgrounds but that are specialising in the youth work dymension in the preventing phase and building community resilience and youth work.
Mission and Objectives

I-Dare has a board of 3 people, 10 people are cooperating in active projects, 20 volunteers are supporting local  community activities.
I-Dare bases the income of services (training or consultancy) and grants from projects: 2020 provisional is 55.000 euro.
I-Dare Italy cooperate with the developement of C-HUB project in Jordan: sustainable developemement of social entrepreneurship for youth with fewer opportunities in Zarqa and East Amman.  It organises training courses and seminars about PVE, youth work at local level and also community resiliece. I-Dare runs workshops for schools, municipalities and youth centres and with volunteers is supporting community developement.
The partners of I.Dare are local instutition (Municipalities, networks of Schools and youth centres), but also national network organisation as REPLAY NETWORK in Italy, Chabibeh SC in Lebanon, etc.

Main Projects / Activities

C-HUB: creative hub in Jordan in cooperation with the local partner I-DARE who is the lead of the project;
Youth work as preventive tool againt violent radicalisation
Tools and debate for promoting positive narrative in Schools
K3 projets about youth work in Italy
Workshops in the school curricula about prevention of violence (verbal and physical)
New project about developing employment for refugees

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We would be happy to contribute with the knowledge and experience with tools, publications and projects about the topic of preventing violent radicalisation and extremism, but also about working with youth with fewer opportunities. We could share the experiences done within south med countries and also the practises that we had learnt.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We would like to connect with wider working group with similar objectives in order to grow together, sharing experiences and debate about the future of cooperation.

Contact (1) Full Name
Federica Demicheli
Job Title
Coordinator
Head of the organisation
DEMICHELI FEDERICA