Daphne project: 2002-065_1
CONRED
a virtual community aimed at preventing violence against immigrant children and adolescents who have no social support network
http://www.peretarres.org/daphneconred/ Daphne project: 2002-065
The Daphne Programme is a programme of community action supported by the Directorate-General for Justice and Home Affairs of the European Commission. Its purpose is to promote preventive measures aimed at combating violence against children, adolescents and women. These measures are implemented via the different projects which constitute the programme.
The CONRED project: a virtual community aimed at preventing violence against immigrant children and adolescents who have no social support network was approved in 2000 when proposals were invited for the Daphne Programme. The Pere Tarrés Foundation-Ramon Llull University is the organisation responsible for links with the European Commission and the general coordination of the project.
The project can be divided into two stages:
The first stage corresponds to work done in the year 2001. The main objective pursued was the carrying out of a Comparative Study of the different situations produced by the phenomenon of unaccompanied immigrant children and adolescents in the countries participating in the project. As a result of this first year's work a Comparative Study and a Code of Good Practice for the participating countries were produced. University departments and organisations working in the social field in Spain, Belgium, Denmark, France and Switzerland worked together as members during this year.
In 2002 the project was suspended because of administrative difficulties.
In 2003 the Daphne programme of the European Union renewed its support for the project, allowing a further two-year period of work to be undertaken.
The second stage corresponds to 2003 and 2004 (ending in January 2005) and incorporates new objectives, giving the project wider scope. It includes new elements intended to bring greater direct benefits to the group it is targeted at: immigrant minors living in European countries and travelling without any support network, and in particular without relatives.
The information and data from all the European countries collected in the first Comparative Study will be extended and updated to facilitate an analysis of current conditions. At the same time the Code of Good Practice will be updated and specified in greater detail. A new feature of this second stage will be the contributions to both documents from additional European countries (Portugal and Italy) and information from two North African countries (Morocco and Algeria), both of which are the countries of origin of large numbers of children and adolescents travelling to many European cities. The presence of these two countries will not preclude the analysis of minors from other areas, such as European countries outside the EU, Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
A key result of the project will be the planning of a European Seminar to train educators. This is to take place in Barcelona in May 2004 and is intended for professionals working with minors. Another objective is the setting up of a European Observatory to study the phenomenon of unaccompanied immigrant minors.
This website is intended to be a tool to facilitate the exchange of information and a means of making the results obtained available to a wider public.
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In 2001 the Pere Tarrés - Ramon Llull University department of Social Projects launched the project CONRED: a virtual community aimed at preventing violence against immigrant children and adolescents who have no social support network as part of the Daphne programme (2000-2003) and, after a pause of one year, approval was given for the project to continue for the years 2003 and 2004, within the same programme.
The current stage of the project is intended to extend and deepen research into the factors leading to violence against immigrant minors and their lack of protection. Conred II emphasises the international dimension of the project with the inclusion of new EU members (Italy and Portugal) and has cooperation from Morocco and Algeria, two countries of origin of these minors.
In the first year, 2003, the information so far collected will be completed and the study of the question of unaccompanied immigrant minors will be furthered by the preparation of a second Comparative Study and a full, updated Code of Good Practice. The number of members and the range of perspectives in the studies (countries of origin and host countries) will allow the setting up of a scientific and practical knowledge base which can be extrapolated to situations throughout the European Community. This year will also see coordination of the design and organisation of the European Seminar on training educators, for professionals working with these minors, which is to take place the following year.
In the second year, 2004, this European Seminar will be held. It aims to offer training to educators, based on the knowledge built up in previous stages and on the exchange of professionals. Conred II will end with the setting up of a European Observatory on immigrant minors. The European Observatory on Social Policies for children and adolescents without social support networks will be made possible by the use of a virtual forum for communication and the creation of a knowledge base to serve the network. Finally, the definitive versions of the Comparative Study and the Code of Good Practice will be drawn up.
All of these activities are intended to promote measures to prevent violence against these children and adolescents and encourage improvements in the systems for care and action being implemented in the host countries.
All the information compiled from 2001 to 2004 will be published on a publicly accessible website to make the results of the project's research as widely available as possible.
http://www.peretarres.org/daphneconred/ Daphne project: 2002-065
Coordinating team:
/ Social Projects - Pere Tarrés Foundation (Spain): project coordinators (Concha Doncel, Violeta Quiroga, Carles Armengol, Ariadna Alonso and Francesc Bonfill)Members:
/ Haute Ecole de Bruxelles - Departement Pédagogique (Bélgica) (François Gillet)/ Kolding Educator Training College (Dinamarca) (Trine Rasmussen)
/ Cáritas Diocesana de Barcelona (España) (Carolina Roig, Àngels Cardona)
/ Casal dels Infants del Raval (España) (Ismael Palacín)
/ Institut d'Etudes Sociales - Centre de Recherche Sociale (Suiza) (Claudio Bolzman)
/ IMF Institut Méditerranéen de Formation et Recherche en Travail Social (Francia) (Catherine Louviot)
New members joining Conred II:
/ Instituto Superior Bissaya-Barreto - Coimbra (Portugal) (Lourdes Benancio y Cezarina Mauricio)/ Centro Italiano di Solidarietà (Italia) (Sabrina Vicino y Silvia Lombardi)
/ Escuela Universitaria La Salle Madrid (España) (Javier Ortega)
Countries of origin cooperating with the project:
/ UNICEF- Alger (Argelia) (Cherif Benadouda y Fátima-Zohra Karadja/ Tadamon -Tanger (Marruecos) (Mohamed Azzibou y Mercedes Jiménez)
Partners of CONRED PROJECT 2003-04
Name: Haute Ecole de Bruxelles
Contact Person: François Gillet
Address: Av. De Fré nº62 1180. Bruselas
Country: Bèlgica
tel: +32 2 373 71 05
E-Mail:
http://www.heb.be/
Name: Kolding Educator Training College
Contact Person: Trine Rasmussen
Address: Dyrehavevej 116, DK-6000 Kolding,
Country: Dinamarca
Phone: +45 75 53 02 33
Fax: +45 75 53 18 45
E-mail:
www.koldingsem.dk
Name: Caritas Diocesana Barcelona
Contact Person: Àngels Cardona
Address: Plaça Nova, 1. 08002. Barcelona
Country: Espanya
tel: 93 301 35 50
E-mail:
http://www.caritasbcn.org/cat/index.html
Name: Casal dels Infants del Raval
Contact Person: Ismael Palacín
Casal dels Infants del Raval.
Address: Junta de comerç 16 08001. Barcelona
Country: Espanya
Tel: 93 317 00 13
Fax: 93 301 16 06
E-mail:
Name: Institut Meditarraneén de Formation et Recherche en Travail Social
Contact Person: Catherine Louviot
Adress:16 Rue Ferdinand Rey, 13006. Marseille
Country: Francia
Tel: +33 4 91 24 61 10
E-mail:
Name: Centro Italiano di Solidarieta di Roma
Contact Person: Silvia Lombardi
Address: Via A. Ambrosini, 129 00147. R
Country: Italia
tel. 0039.06.541951
fax 0039.06.5407304
E-mail:
http://www.ceis.it/
Name: Escuela Universitaria La Salle
Contact Person: Javier Ortega
Address: C/ La Salle, 8 28023. Madrid
Country: España
Tel. 91 740 19 80
Fax 91 357 17 30
E-mail:
http://www.eulasalle.com/
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