According to the UNHCR, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide reached 59.5 million at the end of 2014, the highest level since World War II with a 40% increase taking place since 2011. More than a million forcibly displaced people, migrants and refugees, crossed into Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggled to cope with the influx, and creating division in the EU over how best to deal with resettling people. Ensuring their integration and full participation in the economic, social, and political life of the society in which they live is a right that needs to be ensured if we wish to guarantee their social inclusion and the observance of their human rights.
In several contexts, arts and culture, more specifically traditional artisanship have been used as vehicle for displaced people social inclusion as making things by hand using centuries-old techniques and traditional knowhow might firstly, promote their empowerment and integration through employment opportunities and self-confidence increase; secondly, contribute to the preservation of intangible cultural heritage in need of safeguarding because of forced migrations and conflicts.
In the framework of the Global Exchange of Crafts Makers, Dialogue Café Association is organising this session with the aim of sharing knowledge and promoting mutual learning on how artisanship can be used to promote displaced people social inclusion and the preservation of intangible cultural heritage. With this purpose concrete initiatives being implemented will share their experiences and serve as inspiration for other organisations working in those fields.
The main goal of the cycle Global Exchange of Crafts Makers is to promote exchanges and dialogue between different crafts makers around the world with the aim, in one hand, of identifying the challenges and opportunities of this promising creative sector in future economies, in the other hand, promoting a dialogue and transmission of know-how between traditional and innovative artisans, between senior and young generations.
The session will take place next 25 May from 15h to 17h London time.
PROGRAMME[1]
Moderator: Dalia Sendra, Dialogue Café Association
Artisanship: empowering people, preserving know-how:
- Flore de Taisne & Edmund Le Brun, Ishkar, Paris
Facing together the challenge of ensuring refugees social inclusion:
Artisanship as vector for refugees’ social inclusion. Sharing European experiences.
[1] provisional version
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Overview
Social entrepreneurship and social innovation are at the heart of the Dialogue Café Association mission. The recommendations received during the sessions organised in 2015 on women´s empowerment through creative industries and on creative hubs and entrepreneurship as vehicle for social change, and in 2016 on incubation models for social and creative entrepreneurship: sharing knowledge and testimonials, gave us the opportunity to identify the need of organising follow-up activities focused social entrepreneurship. Activities including exchanges, networking opportunities, trainings, conferences and seminars.
In this framework and with the aim of promoting global exchanges and networking opportunities, as well as strengthening youth capacities and skills on social entrepreneurship, a cycle on social entrepreneurship will be implemented in 2017. The cycle will address challenges and issues previously identified by the participants and partners of Dialogue Café Network.
With this project we aim at stregthening youth entrepreneurs capacities, developing networking opportunities, promoting global exchanges, identifying good practices, addressing the needs of social entrepreneurs and developing a global community on social entrepreneurship around Dialogue Cafe Network.
Source: The Inspiring Entreprise
How the cycle will be implemented?
Activities will be organised each month (with exception of holidays periods) and will alternate, conferences, debates, exchanges and meetings. The topics proposed are:
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A vibrant and diverse social enterprise incubation landscape has been rapidly evolving over the last years. Incubators and accelerators have been pioneers in successfully combining support services including mentoring, funding, business development and infrastructure, to support the emergence of innovative social enterprises and start-ups. In this framework, social and creative entrepreneurship has also found a place and the support from different specialised incubators. Variations in the focus of social incubators have also led to emergence of unique operating and financing models of these social enterprise incubators.
As follow-up of the cycle on social and creative entrepreneurship organised by Dialogue Café in 2015, we would like to launch an knowledge exchange session with the main purpose of review the existing incubation models in the social and creative sector, provide an opportunity to exchange practices and promote networking between social enterprise incubators and other eco-system players from across the world.
With this objective incubators and projects incubated working in the social and creative sector will be invited to participate in this session and share challenges and experiences.
The session will take place in portuguese and will join participants in Dialogue Cafe Lisboa (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) and Dialogue Café Rio de Janeiro (UCAM University).
Special organisations will join is in Évora: ADRAL and Lisbon: Fab Lab and Creative Hub Mouraria!
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From the local to the global level, women´s leadership and participation in society are restricted. Women are underrepresented at the political and economic level, as well as leading positions, whether in elected office, the civil service, the private sector or the Academia. This occurs despite their proven abilities as leaders and agents of change, and their right to participate equally in democratic governance. Women face several obstacles to participating in public life. Structural barriers through discriminatory laws and institutions still limit women´s options to run for office. Capacity gaps mean women are less likely than men to have the education, contacts and resources needed to become effective leaders. As the 2011 UN General Assembly resolution on women´s political participation notes, “Women in every part of the world continue to be largely marginalized from the political sphere, often as a result of discriminatory laws, practices, attitudes and gender stereotypes, low levels of education, lack of access to health care and the disproportionate effect of poverty on women”. Individual women have overcome these obstacles with great acclaim, and often to the benefit of society at large. But for women as a whole, the playing field needs to be level, opening opportunities for all[1].
The first session of this cycle will be focused on the challenges we confront as society in fighting violence against women with the objective of promoting good practices, as well as disseminate testimonials of women.
The first session will take place on 28 September from 16h to 17h30 (London time). Dialogue Cafes participating in this cycle are: Dialogue Café Cidade de Praia, Dialogue Café Évora, and Dialogue Café Lisboa.
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[1] See more at: http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/leadership-and-political-participation#sthash.H1Nvscel.dpuf
Overview
The twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) took place from 30 November to 11 December 2015, in Paris, France. The conference gave as main result an international consensus agreed by representatives of 196 parties, the Paris Agreement that will be signed and adopted during 2016-2017.
The session on “Can Countries in transition/development really go fully green and if yes, how best?” organised by Dialogue Café Novi Pazar in June 2015, provided us the opportunity to identify a cycle of sessions focused on green societies and aimed at sharing smart practices implemented at the local level by different stakeholders (municipalities, civil society organisations, universities, citizens, youth organisations).
Aim
This session is focused on how to build on green societies is to raise awareness about the commitments adopted in the Paris Agreement and promote smart practices implemented at the local level by municipalities, civil society organisations, universities, citizens, youth organisations. Indeed, sharing knowledge and research between universities and organisations promoting green societies. The topics to be discussed are: Paris Agreement: bringing new challenges at the glocal level? and Sharing smart practices implemented at the local level.
This session which will be held next 25 October 2016 from 15h to 16h30 London time, will connect DCs based in Lisbon, Novi Pazar and Rio de Janeiro.
Among the special speakers include, from Rio de Janeiro: Guilherme Rodrigues, Forest Engineer from Onda Verde NGO; from Novi Pazar: Dzenan Hajrovic, Front Foundation; and from Lisbon: Filomena Djassi, PhD On CLimate Change, Founder of Musqueba and Project Manager at the Aga Khan Foundation.
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No âmbito do trabalho colaborativo associado à constituição da PLATAFORMA NEET – ABC (Ações de Baixo para Cima), vão ser organizadas umas jornadas internacionais nos dias 23, 24 e 25 de Maio 2016, que inclui ações em torno a temas relacionados com o trabalho com jovens em situação NEEF para estabelecer pontos de partida sólidos e consistentes para os 5 domínios de atuação: comunidade de prática, rede institucional, auditoria participativa dos serviços de apoio aos jovens, participação e auto-organização dos jovens assim que centro de recursos e plataforma electrónica.
Com estas jornadas internacionais pretende-se, duma parte, melhorar a capacidade de intervenção dos operadores que trabalham com jovens em situação NEET; por outra parte, impulsionar iniciativas de base local e de auto-organização dos próprios jovens, assim que consolidar a Plataforma NEET-ABC para reforçar a cooperação, o trabalho em rede, a inovação e as iniciativas de cidadania ativa.
Sessão Partilha de Boas Práticas no âmbito da intervenção com jovens NEET
No âmbito das atividades previstas em termos de visitas a experiências e jornadas de portas abertas dirigidas a grupos interessados em debater de forma organizada sobre oportunidades concretas, a Associação do Dialogue Café em cooperação com os Dialogues Cafés de Évora, Lisboa e Rio de Janeiro, vai organizar uma troca de experiências e boas práticas no âmbito de intervenção com jovens em situação NEET. Neste sentido organizações sociais e de jovens, autoridades e outros operadores trabalhando com jovens em situação NEET serão convidados a partilhar as suas iniciativas locais, regionais e nacionais, e melhores práticas em vista a reforçar a partilha de conhecimento e oferecer oportunidades de trabalho em rede no âmbito internacional.
Programa
Durante o debate, pretende-se que jovens em situação NEET, membros de associações auto-organizadas, partilhem os seus testemunhos e os desafios que confrontam diariamente em termos de procura de emprego e acesso a formação assim que discriminação e exclusão social.
Esta sessão vai nos permitir debater sobre questões relativas a prevenção desta situação, os recursos que devem ser mobilizados nos territórios e nas comunidades locais, assim que à quais são as condições e os mecanismos que devem ser criados para criar oportunidades e soluções prioritárias para os jovens tendo assim uma real capacidade de influenciar as suas vidas de maneira positiva.
Consulte a última versão do programa provisório.programa provisório
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