Advisory Structures to Champion Social Inclusion

Advisory Structures to Champion Social Inclusion

	Short description and main objectives
	Target group
	Transnational Partners
	Project duration

Short description and main objectives:

The transnational project aims to set up an advisory service in three regions of Europe (Perama- Greece, Rome- Italy, Coimbra-Portugal), addressing people who experience discrimination and social exclusion.
The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the European social dialogue on issues of inclusion and to provide a better understanding of social exclusion factors by developing indicators of social discrimination and exclusion, which will be applicable transnationally.

More specifically the objectives of the project are:

To establish an " access point " in the form of an advisory service for persons wishing to report incidents of discrimination and social exclusion, seeking psychological and legal support.
To provide " first hand" advice to these persons regarding their legal, civil and financial rights and direct them to appropriate agencies for further advice and help, in order to establish their rights and resolve conflict.
To register the reported incidents in a data bank, analyze and compare them at inter-regional level, in order to derive a typology of discrimination situations, illustrating for each type the conditions that permit their occurrence.
To identify the mechanisms that help detect and prevent discrimination, as well as those capable of dealing with it at the early stages of its occurrence.
To submit proposals on the basis of the above analysis, for the introduction of an Advice Service, specialized in anti-discrimination and anti-exclusion advice and action; and provide the outline of its tasks.

Target group:

Cultural and linguistic minorities, racial minorities, People with disabilities, immigrants, lone parents,aids sufferers, ex-offenders etc in the three European regions

Transnational Partners:

Municipality of Perama	Associacao Portuguesa De Paralisia Cerebral (APPC-NRC)
28, Dimokratias Av., 188 63 Perama Tel: +301 4419082 FAX: +301 4414114 E-mail:perama@ombudsman.gr	R. Garcia da Horta Vale das Flores, 3030 Coimbra Τηλ: +351 239802820, +351 239792120 FAX: +351 239802829, +351 239792129 E-mail: gprojectos@nrcappc.pt

PRISMA - Centre for Development Studies	Capodarco di Roma
17 Empedocleous str., 116 35 Athens Tel: +301 7525660 FAX: +301 7523669 E-mail: prisma@prismanet.gr, prisma@ombudsman.gr	Via Lungro 3, 00178 Rome Tel: +3906 7186320, +3906 5085864 E-mail: spinaceto@capodarcoroma.org

Project duration:

1/11/2000 - 30/4/2001 (18 months)