What we work on
Six areas of work
These are the directions we work in. Here we explain what they mean in practice and how we intend to pursue them.
Mobility is the instrument, not the prize: changing context forces you to renegotiate habits, language and roles, and that is where learning happens.
- Youth exchanges, both sending and hosting, with mixed groups from several countries.
- Learning mobility for youth workers: training courses, seminars, job shadowing.
- Pre-departure preparation and post-return processing, so the experience does not stay an anecdote.
What you learn outside a classroom only exists if someone can name it. Our job is to make it explicit and usable.
- Design based on the experiential cycle: experience, reflection, conceptualisation, transfer.
- Peer learning as the standard method, not as a side activity.
- Youthpass and equivalent tools to document the transversal competences acquired.
Many young people perceive the European Union as a distant apparatus. The remedy is not explaining it better: it is experiencing it.
- Youth participation activities and dialogue with local and European decision-makers.
- Simulations, debates and European civic education pathways in schools and communities.
- Intercultural dialogue as the daily practice of a project, not as a dedicated session.
This is the area where our expertise is most specific. Knowing how to use a tool is not the same as understanding it: we work on the second level: how AI systems work, who answers for them, which rights they touch, and what it means to use them in an ethically defensible way.
- Ethical use of AI in practice: when delegating to a model is legitimate, how generated content is disclosed, what should never be fed into a system.
- Human in the loop: a person stays accountable for the final decision. Recognising when an output must be verified, and how an automated decision is challenged.
- How a model actually works: training data, bias, hallucinations, stated and unstated limits. Understanding, not trust.
- Social and legal implications: the AI Act and the GDPR explained to the people subject to them, and their effects on work, school, information and access to public services.
- Digital legality and online citizenship: disinformation, deepfakes, source verification, the attention economy, fundamental rights in digital environments.
A project is inclusive if its design is, not its communication. The test is simple: who would be unable to take part, and why?
- Priority to people with fewer opportunities: economic, geographic, social, health or learning barriers.
- Covering costs and providing individual support where needed, without asking participants to pay upfront.
- Countering every form of discrimination in selection procedures and in how activities are run.
It cuts across everything we do: every international mobility carries a real environmental cost. But it is also a subject in itself, and for an association based on the Adriatic the natural starting point is the sea: the Torre del Cerrano Marine Protected Area lies a few kilometres from our registered office.
- Marine and coastal environmental education: dunes, Posidonia meadows, marine protected areas and reserves, alongside the people who manage them day to day.
- Fieldwork along the Abruzzo coast and in the Apennine inland areas: participatory monitoring, citizen science, collection and characterisation of beach litter.
- Marine litter, plastics and water quality as citizenship topics and not only scientific ones: who decides, who monitors, who pays.
- Low-emission design: surface travel, durations that justify the journey, no printing and no single-use materials.
