Pop the Bubbles
Social Academy – institute for education, research and culture ·Slovenia
About this project
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">The project addresses the challenge of weak inclusion and weak social participation of disadvantaged families in two different segments: the first segment consists of <strong>migrant families</strong> from Turkey that are living in Slovenia and cannot return to their country of origin; </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">the second segment consists of <strong>socially deprived families</strong> with a Slovene ethnic identity. The main applicant will be reasponsable for the reach out to the Slovenian families while the project partner will reach out to Turskish families (this is the organization of Turkish community in Slovenia). </span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">The key challenges that the project is addressing are <strong>strengthening the competencies of two target groups</strong> and <strong>acceptance of these target groups by the general public </strong>in Slovenia. This will be addressed through done through </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">the process of discussion groups, family camps and e-learning, individuals from these families will be trained to build communities and advocate for their own needs in society. Some of them will also become agents of change within their communities and beyond. The two target groups (Slovenian and Turkish families) and the general public will benefit from this project. The approaches developed in the preparatory group will also be used by other organizations, parishes, informal groups and families that will not be directly involved in the project.</span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">The expected results </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">of the project are: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">more contacts between members of vulnerable target groups, their increased capacity for community building and advocacy; and </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">development of tools, methods and approaches that will be used by other NGOs and</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">less prejudices towards these target groups amongst the general public.</span></span></p> <p>Partner from Norway will contribute to the project with it's expertize on working with volunarble groups and reaching out to the community.</p>
Bilateral cooperation results
The partner from Norway was extremly useful by providing it's expertize on working with volunarable groups with tips and trick on tools, approaches and methodologies that have proven sucessful before.
Project partners
- Mangfold Huset Donor project partner· Norway
- Parish Institute of St. Geroge Stara Loka Project partner· Slovenia
- Society for Intercultural Dialogue Project partner· Slovenia