WOMEN4INTEGRATION: from neighbourhoods to Europe

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The project Women4Integration (W-IN) wants to support the economic and social integration of vulnerable migrant women living in marginalized neighbourhoods of big European metropolis. It will be realized in Italy, Spain, the Netherland and Sweden and pursue four specific objectives: 1.Support the capacity of migrant women living in deprived areas to interact in their social environment, promoting their participation to social life and gender equality. 2.Detect and valorise migrant women professional skills and facilitate their sustainable labour market integration. 3.Co-design a territorial-based approach contributing to migrant women integration. 4.Improve the ownership of local services/institutions/actors on effective methodologies aimed at migrant women integration in deprived areas. If from one side the project will promote empowerment processes aimed at recognizing and strengthening migrant women skills and fostering their social activation, from the other side it will focus on effective measures to ease beneficiaries’ insertion in the labour market. At the same time, the action will develop and systematize a place-based approach, activating local resources in favour of migrant women integration, strengthening social cohesion. The results of this work will be widely communicated and shared with policy makers and relevant local stakeholders, building the basis for the sustainability of the action. The project will have an impact on the participation of migrant women to local community social life and to the world of work, on the activation of local community in favour of migrant women’s integration and on the approach adopted by policy makers within integration programmes. This methodological approach will be adaptable and scalable and transferrable, possibly extending the impact of the project beyond its territorial dimensions. Globally 300 migrant women will be participating in the project while 5.000 people will be reached through dissemination activities