"The artistic practice in social work has undergone considerable development over the last decades. But the emergence of ""cultural"" activities still provokes mixed reactions: benevolent but often marked by indifference. Often considered as simple activities, they would only be there to embellish the institutions. This is not our point of view. Art and culture are essential in the work towards and with vulnerable persons, especially as art involves access to the Symbolic and then reflects the very foundation of the human. ""People with disabilities must be able to enjoy all fundamental rights"", as mentions the important French law of February, the 11nd 2005 on Equal Rights and Opportunities, Participation and Citizenship of People with Disabilities. Art and culture are part of this ethical and democratic demand. Yet, access to art and culture remains deeply unequal. And one knows how much the opportunities to access to culture and knowledge are often levers to an integrated social life. Access to art and culture for the disabled person represents a mean of emancipation, a path to self-determination for those who have difficulties to express themselves and a particular way of relating to others and the community. In other words, these cultural activities open to the understanding of the relationship between sensible knowledge and rational knowledge, between individual ""emotional area"" and the context in which it expresses itself. This reinforces the work on self-confidence and the power to act, that are so important for this audience - all that facilitated by the look of ""the others"", not only non-stigmatizing but also rewarding. The objectives of these mobilities are several: • Getting these persons out of the isolation or illness they are sometimes locked in by unconsciousness or the indifference of their environment. • Make them aware of their unexplored potentialities • Promote a better integration in society and the community by allowing them to go and meet art via exhibitions and other artistic representations artistiques on the one hand, and via activities and workshops allowing interactions on the other hand. • Protect from discrimination. • Share life experience. Opening to ""the other"" because, as Marcel Proust wrote it in « Le Temps Retrouvé » : « Par l’art seulement nous pouvons sortir de nous, savoir ce que voit un autre de cet univers qui n’est pas le même que le nôtre, et dont les paysages nous seraient restés aussi inconnus que ceux qu’il peut y avoir dans la lune. Grâce à l’art, au lieu de voir un seul monde, le nôtre, nous le voyons se multiplier ». ""Through art only we can get out of ourselves, know what another one sees in this universe which is not the same as ours, and whose landscapes would have remained as unknown to us as those that may be in the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, ours, we see it multiply. "". This project named CHARME will bring together France, Romania, Belgium, Italy and Croatia, with 1 or 2 partners in each country. Its duration will be 23 months. The audience are people with mental disabilities or psychic disabilities, and the professional staff that accompany them. It will be structured on mobility stays associating people with disabilities and the professionals who accompany them. These stays have to last at least 3 days on site. These stays will be organized in turn by each partner country, which will welcome persons with disabilities and professionals from one country at at time. So each country would receive four times and send four groups. The total number of participants will be 7 persons with disabilities and 1 social workers accompanying them.. During these stays, the proposed activities could be visits to exhibitions, museums and other artistic representations on the one hand, and workshops allowing interactions on the other hand. Other activities planned specifically for professionals will be organized to allow the exchange of practices. The project may also involve management staff, administrators or even members of partner associations. They will also be able to participate in mobility stays."

"THE PROJECT: Caring for vulnerable women in perinatal period is currently at the heart of Public Health's concerns. Society has a duty of assistance and intervention to better protect them. According to a Médecins du monde survey (2014 report) on access to healthcare in Europe, 2/3 of pregnant women do not have access to perinatal care. While pregnant women, mothers and their young children should be given specific protection because of their vulnerability, this report shows that access to care for the most precarious is not sufficiently taken into account. Risk factors aggravate vulnerability.In the context of the CapeVfair European project, participants from the four partner countries (France, Italy, Romania, Spain) note that professionals are still powerless regarding this type of public as well as its problems. There is no specific training for observation and support of the mother-child relationship with a population in difficulty in the 4 partner countries; neither in the basic training of social and medico-social workers, nor in university courses.STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP: This project was initiated by France within the « Centre de Soin, d’Accompagnement et de Prévention en Addictologie » (Center of Care, Accompaniment and Prevention in Addiction) ""Broquedis"" of the Caminante association. The idea was to cross CSAPA's professional practices with those of other offshore social or medico-social institutions, welcoming women and vulnerable children in the perinatal period.Thanks to our French academic partner, A.M. Doucet Dahlgren, professor-researcher in Sciences of education at Paris X Nanterre University (FR), we made contact with professors-researchers from the universities of Barcelona (ES), Iasi (RO) and Verona (IT). These academics helped us build the institutional partnership. The CapeVfair project involves 8 partners for 4 countries: a university and a social or medico-social structure per country, namely HoltIS (RO), Eduvic (RO), Comune di Verona - Casa di Ramia (IT) and Caminante (FR ).OBJECTIVES: Our project aims at raising awareness and training professionals to specifically support pregnant women / or with very young children, in vulnerable situations.RESULTS: The 2 years of collaborative work of the 8 partners involved in CapeVfair have resulted in rich and fruitful exchanges of professional practices and a real work stimulation on the issue of vulnerability in the perinatal period.This perspective of technical knowledge, theoretical and complementary field experiences allowed the specialists of the 4 countries involved in the project to highlight skills and tools specific to quality professional support .Partners in the CapeVfair project are now able to offer training and / or educational modules of specific support for mothers and vulnerable children during the perinatal period. We have co-built operational technical documents, support to this training:• A definition of mothers and children vulnerability during the perinatal period• A document describing and explaining the tools for identifying vulnerability factors used by field professionals working in different countries, contexts and cultures• A document describing and explaining the tools used to observe / analyze vulnerability factors used by field professionals working in different countries, contexts and cultures• A document describing and explaining support tools for mothers and children in vulnerable situations, allowing to support the mother-child bond, to enhance maternal skills. IMPACTS:Thanks to the 3 key moments of valorization of our work, many sector professionals , in each of the countries that are concerned, were sensitized to the care specificity of the target public: tracking and identification of vulnerability factors, accompaniment of the vulnerable public, importance of multidisciplinary approach and networking.The work results (6 intellectual outputs) are all available in the 4 partner country languages as well as in English. They will serve as a support for the training offered in each of the countries, integrated into initial and / or continuous training.A final conference was organized in France on June 14th, 2017, gathering more than 150 participants. The partners were able to present some of the results of their work. The various video presentations are available on the internet (Youtube) and on the capevfair.eu website. The idea is to disseminate as widely as possible the results of our work and the reflections they can generate."

"The recommendation Rec (2006) 19 of the European Council on policy to support positive parenting was adopted in 2006. It recommends that the Member States organize their policies and programs to target the awareness of the value and interest of positive parenting. We aimed with this project PAGE - Parental Guidance and Education - at sharing our work, ideas, methods and practices in the field of parenting support. Our main objective was to contribute to it with our activities and valorisation actions, and even to go beyond that, by focusing on the practices and skills of the professionals, in order to materialize this approach to positive parenting. More precisely, we deplore the fact that today the international conferences or symposia on this topic mainly involve university professors or researchers. Professionals are largely absent from these events, especially social workers, despite the fact that they are the ones that should precisely be informed and trained in these areas. This observation is the basic idea of our project: sharing our practices and building contents DEDICATED to the professionals. Then all along this project, from September 2016 to October 2018, we have* Discussed the issues and challenges we are facing, exchange our good practices, our methods and researches linked to positive parenting,* in order to identify the practices, methods, interesting contents to enrich our viewpoints and our work,* and then develop media and contents for workshops, interventions, case studies,* that we presented during the second year of the project to professionals during 'European Days on supporting positive parenting' organized in four of our countries, France, Italy, Romania and Spain.The partnership brought together:The French association Caminante that gathers in the south west of France several social and medico-social centers of prevention, assistance, support, accommodation, care, sheltered work for persons with physical, mental, psychosocial difficulties of for disabled persons. Caminante was the coordinator of the project and had an academic partner: Anne-Marie Doucet-Dahlgren, a researcher at the Research Centre for Education and Training at the University of Paris Nanterre.2 Romanian partners: AIC University of Iasi and especially the Department of Sociology and Social Work; and Holtis, an association that develops parenting programs int eh North Esat region of Romania, and progressively throuhout Romania.2 Spanish partners: the research group GRISIJ from the University of Barcelona is involved in the areas of vulnerability, social maladjustment and child protection. The Antaviana service of Eduvic association welcomes and supports minor women, pregnant or with newborn children who are away / rejected by their families. 3 Italian partners: the Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology of the University of Verona; Casa di Ramia, an intercultural center of the Town of Verona and LABRIEF, laboratory of research and intervention on family education of the University of Padua. 1 English partner: the African Family Service ""Tower Hamlet"" in London that works on preventing and assessing the vulnerability of migrant families and communities, coming from Africa in particular.Finally our European days gathered 102 participants in Verona, 134 in Barcelona, 139 in Iasi and 271 in Anglet ; mainly professionals in activity, but also students that are future social workers.A specificity of our project was to bring together 'practitioners' (field organisations) and academics. The interest is that the practices of the first ones can feed the work and research of the latter, who also benefit from the experience of the first. It is through interdisciplinary exchange that we developed the skills of professionals who accompany, support, work with children and parents, families in difficulty. All this is about promoting ""harmonious development and child welfare in respect of their fundamental rights and dignity"".Through these European days, we proposed workshops, interventions, case studies etc. which can both guide and train professionals in the field of the support and implementation of parental guidance and positive parenting and provide them with tools to achieve it. The design of a ""handbook of good practices"" on parental guidance at the end of this 2-year project, enables to continue to broadcast in our 5 respective countries the tools and methods of intervention and accompaniment presented during the European Days."

"The ""SALTO – Social Action for Life Quality Training & Tools"" project is based on adapting social worker training to improve the quality of life of the elderly and/or the disabled, especially by reducing the effects of behaviour-related disorders linked to illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s, as well as mental and psychiatric disorders, like autism.Medico-social structures are ‘’social’' because they target independence and protection, social cohesion, exercising citizenship and preventing exclusion. They are ‘’medical’' because these populations require care, whether routinely or occasionally, which is essential for their daily comfort.So, how can we combine ‘‘life projects’’ with ‘‘care projects’’ to enable the emergence of a project providing individual support and, in terms of the contribution of social work, a holistic solution satisfying the needs of users?Implementing this solution involves breaking down the compartmentalisation observed between the healthcare and medico-social environments so as to start thinking and working in terms of co-ordinated paths. In fact, social workers intervene with these populations by providing them daily support, as well as through occupational activities. The SALTO project aims to integrate these activities as part of therapy in order to develop or maintain cognitive, motor and social skills, which are all essential to the quality of life of users, in coordination with the healthcare sector.In order to provide a coherent and operational response to this issue which is already the subject of both theoretical and practical debate, the SALTO project brings together players with the ability, by pooling their resources, to present and combine the perspectives of researchers and field players, trainers/educators and social development specialists, healthcare and socio-medical professionals. Piloted by Etcharry Formation Développement, a social work training organisation working at the heart of professional networks in the Atlantic Pyrenees and Landes in France, the SALTO project also includes:- CAMINANTE: An association which manages several healthcare and social establishments in this area of France- AAPAVA: Manages two establishments for the elderly in the French Basque Country- CEFAL: Professional training organisation based in Bologna (Italy)- University of Bologna Department of Learning Sciences (Italy)- C’ENTRO: An organisation which coordinates several social structures in Venice (Italy)- MATIA Foundation: With its social science research laboratory, it is developing its own care and support model (Spain)- CIFP Hernani Social Innovation: Specialised in social development training (Spain)- VILA MARIA: An establishment for people with mental disorders in Pula (Croatia)- DIOPTER: Professional training organisation based in Pula (Croatia) Organised between September 2016 and August 2019, the SALTO project aims to produce 3 main results:1 – An ‘‘Inventory and analysis of innovative field experiences and training courses’’, developed during the project’s first 8 months.2 – A ‘’SALTO Social Development Training Booklet’’, implemented in 3 successive stages: production of an initial training programme, tested with both professionals and students, adaptation and formalisation of the final programme. The aim of this booklet will be to promote different social work, healthcare and medico-social training courses.3 – A ‘‘SALTO Technical Guide for Social Development’’ which will propose proven tools and activities, associated directly with training principles developed within the framework of the training booklet.These tools will be presented in the form of freely available downloadable files (creative commons licence) on a dedicated website and the European ADAMS platform. The consortium will organise 9 international meetings to give researchers and professionals as much shared time as possible to guarantee a truly common result. A work relation via a collaborative platform and meetings by videoconference will complete the system.Dissemination will take place through 4 events (one in each of the project’s territories), as well as through local technical committees which will associate all the professional structures in these territories wishing to take part.Finally, support from public authorities in the fields of social and health work has already been requested through the following contacts: Emilia-Romagna Health & Social Agency, Bordeaux Regional Health Agency, Bayonne Hospital Centre, Atlantic Pyrenees Department, the Basque Government, Gipuzkoa Provincial Government, Istria Region in Croatia."

"The GIFT project - Growing In Family Today - is a 3-year strategic partnership project that focuses on professional family support practices. Indeed, in the countries involved - Spain, France, Italy and Romania - it is the same observation: the diversity of the new forms of families and of the educational and cultural models, forces the social workers to adapt their vision and their practices to rethink the modalities of support and help to parents and families, not to mention the child. What ""makes family"" has evolved a lot in recent years but the family remains the first place of socialization and of the building of landmarks. She is irreplaceable. But professional representations and the accompaniment methods are no longer in line with these developments. However, experience shows us that the place of parents, of the family depends very much on the posture of the professionals, of their skills and the means they are given to work on these issues. Considering parents and families as partners in an alliance work is recent and still poorly implemented. In addition, the governance of public policies dedicated to children and family is still all too often marked by a globally flawed cooperation and a compartmentalization of the different professional sectors (child welfare, health, medico-social, justice , national education, etc.). The purpose of our project is to promote the development of positive relationships between parents and children within the family, in its emotional, relational and educational dimensions. Because, if parenting support actions are intended to support parents in the exercise of their responsibility, they must also allow boys and girls to grow up in a supportive environment. Our target audience is therefore primarily composed of any social or medico-social worket who works with parents, children and their families. By working to identify and characterize good practices, we will be at the heart of the professional competencies specific to supporting quality parenting. By extension, the final recipients of our work are the persons accompanied, so that their needs are better identified and that the care provided to them is more appropriate. The GEFA partnership is composed of 4 field partners and 6 universities from 4 countries (Spain, France, Italy, Romania). We anticipate significant involvement of field partners in our various activities to keep the project focused on professional practices. The operational objectives of GEFA are to: - improve the professional practices and skills of social workers who work with families, parents and children; - rethink support and intervention arrangements with parents and families; - enable professionals to update their knowledge and support tools; - stimulate the studies and research approaches of academics by our work on ""informed practices""and by changing their perspective in contact with our experiences and practices in the field; - Influence parenting education programs and public governance schemes in our countries through spreading good practices and comparing different approaches. Our project is based on a methodology of identification, characterization and dissemination of professional practices that we will identify as ""good practices"". The identification of practices will be done during the first two years of the project essentially, thanks to exchanges of practice (4 meetings of learning activities) and surveys carried out with a panel of professionals of family support in each of the 4 countries of the partnership. The transnational dimension of this work gives it all its meaning and will allow us to characterize, through a solid methodology, consensual professional practices, transferable in different fields of work or different organizations. We will focus on the third and final year of the project to disseminate the results of our work, thanks to European Days, during which participants will be trained both in identifying what makes today's family and both tools and devices that enable professionals to best support family members in their responsibility. The deliverable documents of our intellectual productions offer an interesting support to the partners to continue later and locally this work of sensitization / training to the good practices of support to parenting."