Cooking for freedomErasmus Plus 2016-2018Call 2016 KA204 – Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education – Exchanges of practices

Project number 2016-1-IT02-KA204-024290

PartnersItaly

Cooperativa Beniamino

ONLUS

Associazione Antigone Onlus

ONG

Istituto Statale di Istruzione

Superiore "R. Foresi«

vocational school

Condotta Slow Food dell'Isola

d'ElbaONG

Turkey

Gazi Universitesi

Yldirim Beyazitvocational

school

PortugalCONFIAR -

Associação de Fraternidade

Prisional

Agrupamento de Escolas D. Carlos

I - Sintra

Direção-Geral de Reinserção e

Serviços Prisionais

Lithuania

Socialiniai Paramos Projektai

ONG “Social Support Projects”

Project objectives

Sharing good practices

Building professional course for integration in work market

Social InclusionStages and training >>> work agreement

Training for social workers

Write a manual about training of social workers and abour professional courses

The Cooking for Freedom project's primary objective is to produce an inclusive education given to inmates who come to freedom, so as to provide them a spendable professionalism in the workplace. Through the acquisition of a professional, in fact, it is more likely that the return to society can be successful for them, because it can contribute to getting them into work.

Moreover, even during the course it is possible that they may know companies and manufacturers available then to hire them at the end of the course. In reference to the young students of vocational schools, also, the goal is to let them share a training course with the prisoners, making them also experience in being their own trainers, but above all the training becomes sharing tool and inclusion, since, albeit from different sources and pathways, both groups share the same goal: the acquisition of quality skills to spend in the world of work.

As for the objective of education of adults, the project also aims to develop and implement the basic skills and key competencies that are essential to be able to stay on a job. Inmates, in fact, long time no longer work and in some cases have never worked and therefore becomes crucial to present them some basic skills to support them into employment. Finally, it is very important to the goal of providing high quality training. Often the professional courses are considered secondary courses, lacking a strong formative quality. In our view, however, it is very important, both for students and prisoners, to be engaged in a training program, both theoretical and practical (through stages) of high quality for only in this way you can really experience their potential and enter fully into the world of work. The project, therefore, aims to provide high quality training offer, including through internships at local companies, in order to build professionalism and high skills in young students is that among the inmates.

The Cooking for Freedom project stems from the need to promote discussion and exchange of good practice around vocational training and prison. The discussion between some of the partners of the previous project (Taste Of Freedom) has revealed the need to opening up scope for further debate about the role of vocational training and working in prison system, about the experience of taking root in a local territory as a means to improve the effectiveness of education system targeted at social risk categories, such as prisoners.This debate’s main goal is the promotion and the development of educational path, which can bring together the best proposals from the partners of the project and implement them in local areas, in order to endorse synergies aimed to increase the effectiveness of social reintegration of the prison and educational system.

The partners have identified and agreed with some premises without which it is difficult to believe that vocational training in prison can become a real opportunity for reintegration:

• Given the peculiarity of the target audience, there is the risk that the vocational training become just a leisure activity with little rehabilitation and reintegration value. The vocational training needs a strong support from a network outside the prison system to become really effective. Who promotes and implements vocational training needs to define at the beginning which strategy he intends to adopt and, in particular, what value it may have for prisoners regarding the general purposes, such as humanization of punishment, the acquirement of basic skills, the mere tutoring, the experimentation of training path with no previous or too far in the past experience in vocational training

• Some programs are likely to be affected by subjective difficulties expressed by the target audience, because of its specific conditionand lack of familiarity with structured workplace

• In many cases, educational activities, mainly those outside the institution, come into conflict with some internal organization aspects: times, locations, access to materials, transfer of prisoners, etc.

• It is often a risk of distrust of businesses about the potential of the target and the effectiveness of the courses;

• Knowledge and skills in the restaurant industry can largely be spent in the field of occupational reintegration;

• it is extremely necessary to promote a better food and nutrition culture even within the prison institution;

• The chance, even for young people included in the standard training programs, to improve their experiences working with institutional. Experimenting in integration processes, can also increase empowerment and investment in their education.

As a result of partner’s analysis and sharing of the main issues identified, concrete objectives of the project are:• Create and test pilot training courses that could be models, planned with the cooperation between prison institution, educationalinstitutions and a wide territorial network of associations and companies that deal with catering and nutrition;• Develop strategic skills of qualified personnel in order to achieve integration between different organizations to identify the needs of the labor market and design the ultimate goal in relation to them;• Develop a network, also on the EU level, able to promote the reintegration of prisoners with specific training;

• Promote the exchange of good practices between the Partnership, reproducible and useful at EU level, in order to promote learning processes of adults in custody and more effective collaboration between the prison institution and educational institutions;• Receive useful recommendations to support effective policies for employment and the inclusion of disadvantaged adults;• Promote Training and internships which integrate the presence of students from classical training programs and adults from specific training programs.

1) More collaboration between what exists: at the local level it is expected an implementation of the branch network and increasedcooperation between the existing realities working in the field of training and dealing in prison;2) social response: we expect locally also stimulate a positive response of the territory around the activation of resources of prisonersand promote positive experiences of integration of prisoners into society;3) Political response: we expect to stimulate local institutions to promote greater investment on integration policies of detention;

THE DESIRED IMPACT (Locally)

4) identification and involvement of specific groups of users and of corporate networks of companies;5) Creating something new: creating networks, both at local and regional level, to involve training agencies, educational and clinicalservices, companies and trade associations made aware of the issues covered by the project;6) Competences: development of the competences of the professionals directly involved in the project as well as other professionalsof the field;

THE DESIRED IMPACT (Locally)

1) the testing and the exchange of views between partners at a transnational level will provide tools and models ready for the use in different national contexts, that will be disseminate by the national networks;2) the project will also create references to replicate the experiences at a national level;3) development of the website will be an opportunity for the exchange of information between professionals, organizations,institutions and to download the project outputs, including the training course directed to the staff and the planning of the work inclusion paths;

THE DESIRED IMPACT (Nationally)

4) Further, the website will represent a permanent tool, continuously updated in order to develop networks at a national level;5) We expect to offer concrete models for developing a close cooperation between training agencies, assistance and clinical services,companies;6) We also expect the development of new perspectives of stability and efficacy in the social, educational and insertion fields addressed to the target;7) the network will last beyond the end of the project and will be widen at national and transnational levels.

THE DESIRED IMPACT (Nationally)

1) creation of tools, models, procedures, prototypes of paths / projects reproducible in different countries and contexts in Europe, partly because made from the comparison and joint experimentation in partner countries, and easily accessible to professionals and organizations2) concrete contribution to achieve the EU Council objectives regarding the employment rate (75% for people aged 20 to 64 years old), by the development of reproducible and concrete tools, models and inclusion projects directed to segments of population often excluded from the labor market and able to act since the young age3) provision of relevant and comparable data regarding the adult education and the prison politicies

THE DESIRED IMPACT (EU level)

4) creation of tools and models uniform and flexible, thus to allow the comparison of the processes of integration for adult people who are serving a sentence;5) relevant contribution concerning the Council indications in terms of creating comparable models in to allow the exchangebetween different countries;6) consolidate relationship between UE partners and sharing of good practices for further collaborations.

THE DESIRED IMPACT (EU level)

The development of the permanent network and of the website will allow to update progressively the collected data and to evaluateperiodically the impact gained even beyond the project end.Project partners will manage the website and the network. Every four months they will analyze the data linked to the impact, to theinvolvement of persons and organisations and to the implementation of the interventions.In addition, this ongoing process is guaranteed by the fact that the construction of the permanent network, its increase and thecomparison between the partners becomes essential for the development of opportunities for the partners and for the realization ofnew initiatives.Therefore, the project impact will be evaluated through the collection and organization of the aspects we indicate here following, inthe reports elaborated during the lifetime of the project and beyond the project end, made available on the website. The website

Measuring impactThe previously detailed impact on the different target groups and organisations will be measured using both a quantitative and qualitative orientation, during the implementation phase of the project as well as its end

Regarding participants and other persons involved during and after the project:-N. of inmates and young students involved during the various stages of the project and their interest and frequency in the professional course-N. of contacted and involved companies-N. of involved companies open for stages-N. of participants attending at the awareness days and to dissemination activities-N. of professionals that will visit the website, will download the outputs, will join the network-N. of companies that will actively participate to develop job opportunities, identify tasks and contracts to be outsourced, willing to employN. and type of organisations: public, private, from professional education, education and work inclusion-N. of organizations and institutions involved in the dissemination activities

Impact numbers

Regarding the project’s results-N. of stages and work contract effectively obteined at the end of the project-Level of reproducibility of the processes and of the projects in terms of both structure and contents-N. and quality of the courses actually carried out -The quality of the results will be measured using the procedures foreseen in the evaluation plan and assessing the effective completeness, clarity, ease of handling and reproducibility in different contexts-Actual access to the site, level of access and usability of the tools createdThe site will be equipped with specific sections and easy to use, every visitor will have the opportunity to enter their assessment inrelation to the accessibility of the site, the usability of the tools, their quality, efficacy, their applicability. The organizations will be invited to evaluate, through simple and useful tools, the quality, the usability, the immediate application of the tools and models created.

Impact numbers

Professional Course, stages and work agreement-N. of stages made during the project-N. of work agreement (job placement) obteined at the end of the project for the young students-N. of work agreement (job placement) obteined at the end of the project for the inmates-N. of participants at professional courses-N. of course started up after the end of the project

Impact numbers

Furthermore, during the preparation, implementation and evaluation stages of the project, we’ll identify the performance indicators.Partners will periodically analyze the collected data. This process will allow the ongoing updating and the improvement of the toolsdeveloped as well as the development of their reproducibility.

ImplementationAll the partners havo to activate a territorial network with prison, school and companies

Training for social

workers

Involvement of prison

and professional school

Contacts with

companies of

territory

Professional course

Training course for inmates (draft)

1 year (01-2017 – 12-

2017) School learning

6 months (01-2018 – 06-

2018) Stages

School learning:Front lessons

Peer education (with young students)

Psico-educational lessons

Stages and training in companies

Final certificate

Instruments – comunication and coordination

Whatsapp group, limited coordination (1 contact for each country)

Mail group (1 contact for each partner)

Skype

Dropbox to sharing documents and files

Website

International Meetings

International meetings: calendar

January 2017 Long Training Portugal

April 2017 Meeting 1: ItalySeptember

2017Meeting 4: Lithuania

February 2018 Meeting 5: Turckey

June 2018 Final meeting: Italy

Let’s go to work!