Abstract:

The international CiSoTRA project, an acronym that stands for "Civil Society for Social Inclusion of Unaccompanied Minors in Transition to Adulthood: Learning Communities for Shaping Transition Interfaces", aims to develop and implement an innovative methodology to promote the social inclusion of foreign minors. accompanied (from 14 years of age) in transition to adulthood through the setting up of support networks able to facilitate the passage of these young people from the educational system to the employment system. The project partners belong to five different countries in the Euro-Mediterranean area and they are university institutions, training institutions, schools of high professional training.

The CiSoTRA project intends to identify the special educational needs and respond to the demand for skills for a fully active citizenship of unaccompanied foreign minors. The planned intervention model is an integrated one, able to actively involve these young people in the training activities designed for them. At the same time, a professional empowerment is expected of those who work with them and for them in the plurality of educational contexts, institutional realities and training agencies of partner countries.

The article analyzes the different socio-educational disadvantages that characterize the lives of these young people and the possible training responses that the Cisotra Project intends to offer to counter situations of marginality and social unrest. All the paths that unfold within the project are the result of participatory training planning, developed synergically by the partner countries in an organic and complex framework of skills to be promoted.

Numerous synergies are being created through direct involvement and effective awareness of the various realities social services and professionalism operating there.

It is also singular the direct participation of minors in some segments of the project activities, in order to listen to their educational needs directly from their voice.

The article describes the evolution of project activities in the last year. The results achieved so far are indicative of an intervention model that is proving to be effective, valid and that it is achieving, in progress, important objectives such as: responding to the demand for training, professional qualification and active citizenship of unaccompanied foreign children and guaranteeing them conditions of future well-being once they reach the age of majority.

Keywords:

Unaccompanied foreign minors, transition to adulthood, training, educational needs, international partnership, social inclusion.