The ExULI project promotes an integrated an approach that combines the non-formal education practices of youth work with the contribution of the psychotherapeutic practice of the Lacanian field. Both are approaches that support resilience, that is, the ability to effectively deal with the contradictions of the exile condition of young migrants, to give new impetus to their existence and even to reach important goals. The method that ExULI project intends to develop, to test and to share with those working with young migrants who have applied for asylum in Europe, young refugees and second generations, wants to be an instrument to be used in the prevention of radicalism. Narration and therefore the appointment/recognition of trauma through low access threshold communication techniques, based on human expression and art, prevent it from being silenced, relegated, and hidden. Thus, through the narrative of trauma labs (“to say in words”, “to say with music”, “to say in images” and “to say playing”), lay the foundations for a true sharing with social circles, pre-existing (family and friends) or future circles ( children and other relationships in the hosting country), a fundamental operation to prevent a possible future mythologization by the second generation of a land, an identity, a culture that they have not known but which can become catalysts of discomfort and feeling of marginalization that only apparent integration can bring with it. The goal is to change the destiny of a trauma, subjectivity and generations to come, through elaboration and rewriting work that will in some way limit the risk of fratricidal struggle, hate and ferocity towards those who welcomes them, most of the time, however, rejecting them. By combining the ability to engage, to create comfortable and positive environments, and to put the group at the service of the individual, typical conditions created by non-formal education methods, in the knowledge gained from the psychoanalytic discourse, that the "real" trauma reveals itself later and later, as demonstrated by the terrorist attacks that several hosting countries have been targeting, it is considered that it is necessary to allow direct beneficiaries to work out trauma, or to rewrite a story through a secondary insurgency, considering that exile is not a choice. The specific objectives of the ExULI project will be: - collect and systematize the knowledge and professional experience of non-formal education and lacanian psychoanalysis in the field of work with young migrants in a methodological guide accompanying the preparation of the contents of the expressive labs - implement a validation framework of the reference skills for those involved in the implementation of laboratories - improve through training the skills of youth workers, educators, teachers, mediators and psychoanalysts involved in working with young migrants - allow young migrants to identify / recognize trauma through laboratory pathways using low access threshold communication techniques - making original instruments available for the prevention of radicalism both in contemporary and second generation migrants - to encourage synergies between actors (professionals and volunteers) from different areas of intervention, in order to foster innovation and the search for synergies appropriate to the new challenges on inclusion and integration that European society is called upon to face up to The ExULI project involves 5 organizations from 4 of the major countries involved in the reception of migration flows: Italy, France, Spain and Greece. Cross-sectoral partnerships, committed to a 30-month project, can count on a significant experience in European educational programs, presenting expertise not only in non-formal education with young people, but also in the field of psychoanalysis of the Lacanian field and making use of the support from the associated partners, having also an academic relevance.
ExULI is a strategic partnership for innovation in the Youth sector, lasting 24 months. The project partnership is formed by 5 organizations from 4 of the main European countries concerned by the reception of migration flows: Replay Network (ITALY) as applicant and coordinator, CCP-Onlus (ITALY), Pistes Solidaires (FRANCE), Active Citizens Partnership (GREECE) and Forum Opcio Escola Campo Lacaniano (SPAIN). The cross-sectoral nature of this consortium, in which the experience in educational programmes for European cooperation and a strong expertise in the fields of non-formal education with young people and Lacanian psychoanalytic practice converge and are combined, is at the same time the distinctive feature and one of the main innovative aspects of the project. At the core of ExULI there was the aim of fostering, within communities, synergies between professionals active in the field of work with young migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and second generation, from different fields of intervention, such as youth workers, social workers, educators, teachers, cultural mediators, psychoanalysts, psychologists and other multipliers, in order to improve the impact of their current practices and encourage innovation, moving away from the idea of standardization and responding concretely to the needs of the current migration phenomenon. In this way, the project aimed to act in the direction of depowering the conditions that can lead to extremism and violent radicalisation, while intervening both on the subjective dimension of young migrants and on the communities in which these young people often find themselves forced to flow into. In particular, the project approach is based on the combination of the typical conditions created by non-formal education methods, such as the ability to engage, the creation of safe, welcoming and positive environments and the presence of the group in support of the individual, with the knowledge acquired from the psychoanalytic discourse, in order to allow these young people to elaborate their trauma. However, this can only happen by creating the conditions for them to be able to identify it and recognise it. ExULI has been developed through the implementation of the following actions: • 4 INTERNATIONAL FOCUS MEETING targeting the staff of the partner organisations, in order to capitalise the expertise of the different consortium members applied to the field of work with young migrants and thus translate it into an intellectual product which can be transferable and exploitable in different contexts; • A COMPENDIUM that outlines and presents an integrated approach of non-formal education and Lacanian psychoanalysis related to the area of reception, in order to foster the creation of preconditions for the treatment of trauma of young migrants through the participation in expressive pathways (atelier) based on low threshold access; • INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE FOR FACILITATORS targeting the staff of the partner organizations, in order to test the developed approach and its methodological framework and prepare European educators and psychoanalysts for the implementation of ateliers with young migrants in their local realities; • EXPRESSIVE PATHWAYS (ATELIER) targeting young migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and second generation, focused on four low threshold expression medium (images, words, sounds, movement) in order to stimulate the exploration of their symbolic and imaginary resources and the creation of new social links; • AN IMPACT ANALYSIS on the implementation of the atelier in order to highlight and capitalise the impact and potential of the experience and approach proposed in the Compendium on direct beneficiaries (young migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and second generation) and operators; • A WEB PLATFORM targeting professionals active in the field of work with young migrants, in order to create connections between practictioners, to access the contents of the Compendium through a dedicated MOOC and to deepen the dialogue and exchange through a section of additional resources and a Community of Practice space; The project managed to reach more than 162.000 people interested in the topic of ExULI. The intellectual products of the project have been strengthened by an experimentation phase in the 4 countries, carried out by the consortium, through the involvement of 23 practictioners who activated 17 atelier pathways and raised the interest of 404 beneficiaries, of which 187 actually participated in the activities. The active sharing of what has been produced and the extension of the professional community involved is now fed by the www.exuli.eu platform, which has seen more than 2.700 interactions in the first period of operation alone.