T.R.A.M.E. PROJECT

1. T.R.A.M.E. PROJECT 142259 – LLP – 2008 – IT GRUNDTVIG - GMP

2. Weaving Embroidery Seniors Mediators of Experiences

3. Main Partner Municipality of Florence Public Istitution The Municipality of Florence serves as the leader and is responsible for the project, which is managed by the Social Department Services & Sport. The project intends to experiment with new means of integration and collaboration, with the end purpose of building a model which is based on cohabitation and not on reciprocal distrust.

4. Partner 2 Coordinating partnerForeda Toscana – Agency for adults education (Tuscany) Foreda Toscana is a non-profit organization which is responsible for Adult Education, in collaboration with both public and private institutions and companies. It is coordinating partner of the project and is also responsible for the documentation and evaluation.

5. Partner 3 ENAIP Toscana Formazione e Lavoro Training Agency (Tuscany) The added value brought by the Enaip TFL is represented by their experience in the field of professional training, in both national and European fields, both in terms of contents and methodology. Of particular relevance is the attention Enaip TFL pays towards disadvantaged categories or categories at risk of social exclusion: disabled; foreign; convicts; ecc.

6. Partner 4 Gli Anelli Mancanti – Non Profit Association (Florence) “Gli Anelli mancanti” (The Missing Links) is responsible for literacy and support programs for immigrants who are residents in Florence. It collaborates particularly with the municipality of Florence and with both public and private entities who deal with the insertion and integration of immigrants. In the course of this project it created in particular the web site (www.trame-project.it) and a DVD which documents the activities of the project and on the possible integration between diverse cultures, also in site of the dissemination of the positive results achieved.

7. Partner 5 Primaria of Şinca Nouă - Public Institution (Brasov – Romania) The municipality of Şinca Nouă has furnished a project with a fundamental added value, in as much that the elderly women who do the embroidery and the weaving in the traditional method are residents of Şinca Nouă. These have represented the input for the rafting of the TRAME project and they have revealed themselves to be particularly involved in the fulfilment of those activities entrusted to them, together with the mayor and director of the municipality.

8. Partner 6 Primaria of Făgăraş – Public Institution (Brasov – Romania) Făgăraş represents the interface for the small mountain municipality of Şinca Nouâ, with whom it operates in an integrated manner in order to consent the elderly women who live there to have a cultural outlet in an area which is less outlying and which has more tourist flow. Even the intergenerational axis of the project could be served by the participation of young residents in the suburbs of Făgăraş, which can offer the capacity for dissemination on a wider scale and with possibilities relevant to developments.

9. Partner 7 APIMM Făgăraş Public institution (Făgăraş – Romania) APIMM groups together the small and mid-sized companies of the district of Făgăraş, offering them administrative assistance and financial consultant, apart from political representation. It can therefore, in tight concordance with the Municipality of Şinca Nouâ and Făgăraş, support and accompany the birth and emphasis of the value and the marketing of entrepreneurial activities in the field of fabric and of tourism connected, offering consultant and in-training, even in light of the creation of a possible quality brand.

10. Partner 8 Lan Ekintza Employment Agency (Bilbao – Spain) Lan Ekintza, being the only Spanish partner and therefore responsible for the implementation and the coordination of all the activities scheduled in the district of Bilbao, organized an international meeting of the partners which took place in Bilbao at the end of January and collaboration with the other partners and for the diffusion of the dissemination of the project and its results in the area of Bilbao and in the Basque lands.

11. Target audience • This project is directed towards groups of elderly women and groups of young women in each of the partner countries - Italy, Spain, Romania - that participated in these formative activities which work to increase the value of and to commercialize local products, particularly in the areas of embroidery, weaving and clothes.

12. Project objectives • ·The objective which this project intends to reach is to support and increase the value of the local craftsmanship of the countries involved through training and self-training directed mainly towards elderly women, with the purpose of bringing to light knowledge and skills required for the production of handmade textiles but also to update the same productions to the “tastes” of the present market. At the same time, the project is directed towards groups of interested youngsters who, through training programs, can specialize in regards to themes linked to the commercialization of products, to the marketing of these products, to technology with the end objective of spreading and beginning to increase the value of and the commercialization of these products of local craftsmanship.

13. AIMStrengthen adults and older people self-confidence and promote personal success through the enhancement of formalandnon formalknowledge and skills. (meeting for resuming, comparison and exchanges between elderly and young adults on the craft knowledge and on technical and operational skills)

14. AIM2) Develop creative skills for new social and cultural synthesis. (specific actions for the enhancement of traditional activities currently undertaken in the field of weaving, garment makingandembroidery)

15. AIM3) Enhance the capacities for the development of small businesses (education and self-study activities involving elderly and young adults in the creation of cooperatives and small businesses)

16. METHODThe method adopted involves the efficient use of internal competences and resourcesof participants and not the mere assimilation of skills and knowledge (self–traininglaboratories combined withexpertmeetings)

17. OBJECTIVESPromote the enhancement, through mutual comparison and guided self-training, of activities traditionally carried out by groups of mostly elderly women in the field of weaving, garment makingandembroidery, to enable them to cope with change and continue to be active in society. Activities 4/5/6 – Elderly women seminaries (Bilbao - Sinca Noua - Florence)

18. OBJECTIVES(2) Support the growth of young adults - mostly women –with the contribution of the experience of older persons Activities 8/9/10 - Work shop for toung Italians (Florence – Fagaras – Bilbao), with the participation of at least 5 elderly women.

19. OBJECTIVES(3) Build and strengthen the relationship between Romanian and ROM citizensof Romanian nationality present in Italy and Spain involved in the project and their communities of origin, in order to:enhance their identity and build positive relations of intercultural exchange Activity 7 – Transnational seminary (Florence) a group of women from the three partner countries selected from among the participants in the activities 4/5/6

20. OBJECTIVES(3) Build and strengthen the relationship between Romanian and ROM citizensof Romanian nationality present in Italy and Spain involved in the project and their communities of origin, in order to:(b) determine higher awareness - in the case of young people - in individual decisions to emigrate. This is a cross-cutting objective in all activities. Particular emphasis will have the activation of a counter at the immigration office of Town Hall of Florence, with an operator chosen from the young Romanians.

21. OBJECTIVES(3) Build and strengthen the relationship between Romanian and ROM citizensof Romanian nationality present in Italy and Spain involved in the project and their communities of origin, in order to:(c) support the development of associations, cooperative enterprises and small entrepreneurship, in order to limit the propensity to emigrate or anyhow to guarantee to the migrants who decide to return to their countries the opportunity to capitalize the result of their work in a productive and advantageousmanner for the development of Romanian economy. Transnational seminary for 5 young people in each partner country + 20 of the host country (Fagaras)

22. Statute of Tuscany RegionArt. 4 The Region pursues the promotion of international cooperation as economic democracy instrument and social development, the promotion of peace values, of solidarity and the dialogue between people, culture and religions.

23. Tuscany Regional Law 23 March 1999 n.17Interventions for the promotion of activities of cooperation and international partnership at regional and local level art. 1 This law pursues the following purposes: To contribute to the social and sustainable development of local communities; To favour the european integration process; To favour the cooperation between regions of European Union.

24. Tuscany RegionWork Plan for International cooperation 2007 - 2010 This work plan aim to: To favour the Local Authorities role and their Associations; To strengthen a international cooperation politics in the economic sectors of quality’s production, traditional knowledges and sustainable tourism; To favour the valorization of local resources and traditonal knowledges.