International Relations - Municipality of Bologna

Past projects - Social and Health policies

Betsi - Binding Efforts Towards Inclusion (PDF, 213 kb)

BRIEF-CASE (PDF, 194 kb)

CARE - Accessible Cities in the Regions of Europe (PDF, 197 kb)

Catch - Creative Approaches to Combating Homelessness (PDF, 260 kb)

EUROCITIES – NLAO (Network of Local Authority Observatories on Active Inclusion)

The project, coordinated by EUROCITIES, has the primary objective to create a network of local Observatories, led by European Municipalities (for Italy, the Municipality of Bologna by means of the Institution for Social and Community Inclusion “don Paolo Serra Zanetti”), to study and promote the role of quality in providing social services at a public level.
The network aims at monitoring and analyzing the implementation, at the local level, of the common strategy on active inclusion decided by the European Commission, in particular for what regards the access to social services, housing and job opportunities.
Funding Programme: PROGRESS (2007-2013) European Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity
Starting date: March 2009
Duration: 18 months

Eusoda - European Social Database (PDF, 150 kb)

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IN.SI.E.ME - Together against gender-based violence

he objective of the project, coordinated by the Municipality of Bologna, is to strengthen the local governance of the actions aiming at preventing gender-based violence and at providing integrated assistance to the victims. The project also aims at enhancing an inter-organisational process among institutional and private subjects working in the social field, as well as improving their power of intervention through training activities, networking and observatories.

Funding Programme: Dipartimento Nazionale Diritti e Pari Opportunità (IT) - "National Fund against sexual and gender-based violence"
Start: 01/09/2008
End: 18 months

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Kindergartens in Jerusalem

The project, coordinated by the Recreational Association for Culture and Development (ARCS) of the Emilia Romagna Region and with the partnership of Bologna Municipality and of the Early Childhood Resource Center of Jerusalem, aims at improving the Palestinian children’s quality of life by providing teachers and parents with new abilities.
The enhancement of the Jerusalem education center will bring positive effects all over the Jerusalem and West Bank area, in particular on the civil society, in a war context such as the Palestinian one.

Funding: Region Emilia-Romagna - Regional Interventions for Cooperation with Developing and Transition Countries, International solidarity and Promotion of a peace culture

Starting date: 2008
Duration: 12 months

 

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Minors - Unaccompanied asylum seeking children (PDF, 148 kb)

MUVI - Developing strategies to work with Men who Use Violence in Intimate relationships

The project’s aim is to investigate the viability of, and create the conditions for, new strategies addressed to men who use violence against women in their interpersonal relations. This issue will be dealt with in countries like Italy and Greece, where the attention and public debates are poor about this, and in Spain, where the discussion is hindered from many parts. The project will investigate about the existing resistance to the issue and the possible interpretation keys.
Watch the video (Italian only) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAVjQYrf_mc

Funding Programme: Daphne II (2004-2008)
Starting date: March 2007
Duration: 24 months

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Oficina de Rua

The project, coordinated by the ARCI Solidarity of Reggio Emilia (IT), stems from an experience promoted by the City of Salvador Bahia (BR) called Salvador Graffita and is meant to maintain continuity with the previous project Adotta un Ritmo, in partnership with Brazilian associations. Considering any form of art a flywheel for pathways of job and social inclusion, Oficina de Rua aims at involving a group of disadvantaged teenagers and minors in training courses and street workshops based on art, in accordance with the local policy, so as to reduce the damage of social exclusion for the risky categories in the urban and suburban areas.
Funding: Region Emilia-Romagna - Regional Interventions for Cooperation with Developing and Transition Countries, International solidarity and Promotion of a peace culture, 2008

Starting date: 01/12/2008
Duration: 12 months

 

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OLDES (older people’s e-services at home)

The project, coordinated by ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment), aims at improving the quality of life of elderly people and their families, thanks to the definition an testing new low-cost and easy-to-use technological platform that will provide tele-assistance, tele-company, tele-medicine services to a large number of users.
The Bologna Municipality, designer of the initiative on which the project was built, will be in charge for the first tests, which will involve 100 Bolognese elderly people, and for the following steps: defining the requirements and reporting the results. The second tests will be carried out in the Czech Republic, on a group of diabetic patients.
Funding Programme: 6th Framework Programme for Research & Technological Development
Starting date: 01/01/2007
Duration: 36 months

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Phase - Promoting &Supporting Integrated Approaches for Health & Sustainable Development at Local Level (PDF, 202 kb)

Sage - Supporting active AGeing in Europe (PDF, 213 kb)

Soc Inc Net - Social Inclusion Network (PDF, 198 kb)

Survivors - Support solutions for the affected, violated and orphans of terrorist attacks (PDF, 314 kb)

Tele Medicine - Telemedicine and the consequences for urban planning and development (PDF, 167 kb)