ABITARE LA CITTA’: Paths of social, professional, and housing empowerment for asylum seekers and refugees in the Municipality of Rome

The project aims to develop paths of social, professional, and housing empowerment for asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection exiting the reception circuit or who have already begun their activation path towards a semi-autonomous phase. Participants will be guided through paths of social and professional empowerment, training, and support in entering the job market. Alongside professional empowerment paths, participatory co-design paths and group creation will be organized. Through these paths, which will see project participants working together with other individuals belonging to the host community, it will be possible to increase the participants’ bridging social capital (heterogeneous social networks, thus highly inclusive), facilitate relationships among cohabitants, and enhance their understanding (and sense of belonging) to the urban context of arrival.

The intervention will take place in the Lazio Region and more specifically, within the territory of the Municipality of Rome. Specifically, socio-professional empowerment actions will be carried out in the territory of the Municipality of Rome, in spaces made available by FCEI, the Adecco Foundation for Equal Opportunities, and the Foundation for Digital Education. Regarding outreach activities, the scope, through partner networks, will extend to the entire Province of Rome, with the possibility of reaching beneficiaries also outside the Lazio Region, in other areas of partner intervention throughout the national territory. In order not to exclude the most vulnerable subjects from the project, whose path towards full autonomy inevitably requires longer periods and more articulated and multidimensional interventions, it has been envisaged to address three specific target segments: adult men, minors and young adults, women.