The multiethnic Brussels represents a study case on youth social inclusion policies both for European Union and South East Europe. The instant story, between dream and reality, of the people actively engaged in educational and cultural projects inside the public structures devoted to aggregation and participation of young people. |
The final step of a workshop that took one year between Brusells, Belgium and Chieti, Italia. An equipe of young people from Pac Evere and Arci Officine Culturali is looking for a man, Achille Spinelli. Around them, starting from the district of Molenbeek, the youngsters of Brusells in their meeting places, maisons de jeunes and cultural centres, squares and streets. Why are four Italian women looking for that social worker? From Chieti the desperate search for new spaces of good youth policies. |
Interview about the life and the history of the Molenbeek- Saint Jean district, (Brusells) in La Fonderie – Museum bruxellois de l’industrie et du travail. |
Some interviews shot inside the ULB, Free University of Brusells, under the framework of the project Youth in Action for Communication. |
Chieti-Bruxelles: go and back
Over the past decade and at different levels (Institutions, Public Bodies,
NGO’s, youth worker), an important debate took place in Europe
as far as the role of the youth is concerned, how to recognise the different
and innovative non formal educational approaches that is possible to
use with them, which actions and tools develop to achieve their active
citizenship and full participation in our societies.
In this playground and so important process for the whole European Society, become
a priority to give directly to young people and youth workers, that represent
the best stakeholders to understand this phenomena, the challenge to address
the youth policies subject, to build a stronger process able to explore and investigate
what is going on around Europe in the field of youth work and to promote and
develop common reflections, activities and projects.
To have the concrete possibility to achieve knowledge and competences in this
framework, it came up the idea of (the project) “Chieti-Bruxelles:
go and back” in order to link the social and
cultural youth reality of Chieti with an European dimension taking Brusells
as reference not only because is the capital of Europe but also because it represent
a good practices for the whole European strategy of inclusion and participation
of the young people.
