NeCoWo: Neighborhood Community Work

NeCoWo aims to exploit the potential of city neighborhoods as an ideal setting for implementing local engagement initiatives and educational practices with and for vulnerable adults. Specific obje...

NeCoWo aims to exploit the potential of city neighborhoods as an ideal setting for implementing local engagement initiatives and educational practices with and for vulnerable adults. Specific objectives are: - activate participation and empowerment at grass-root level by involving fragile adults in local actions and neighborhoods projects; - reinforce the role and improve the competences of community workers and adult educators of the partners; - upgrade the expertise in the field of adult

To reach these objectives the partners will: - Train community workers in new skills and competencies based on a neighborhood approach and use local resources to create opportunity for the engagement and participation of fragile adults; - Test the use of community and civic spaces with fragile adults; - Activate local advocacy and networking processes through participatory labs and co-creation of territorial pacts; -Organise 5 community events and one international conference

During 30 months the partners will produce the following results and outcomes: - A Report on neighbourhood-based skills and competencies for community workers; - A Curriculum to support their work locally and reinforce their competences and skills; - 5 neighbourhood-projects co-created with fragile adults to support their participation in local communities; - Test the use of neighbourhood centres/hubs by the community; - 5 participatory labs with local stakeholders to establish territorial pacts