Description of organisation

Coop. Librazione (which has recently acquired Coop. RicercAzione) has been developing its activities in Emilia-Romagna since 1985, a region of about 4 millions of inhabitants, in the North of Italy.
Librazione collaborates with Public Administration, Regional Council, Universities, at a local, national and European level, and has taken part in several EU projects.

Librazione main activities concern the following areas:

1) PREVENTION AND SOCIALIZATION
- Socio-educational centres for young people at risk of social exclusion;
- Psycho-social activities addressed to families in difficult situations;
- Centres performing workshops to promote young people socialization in areas at risk of social exclusion;
- Centres for family support: counselling services, information and documentation; research on family policies.

2) INFORMATION, GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
- Youth information centres in Ravenna, Faenza, Lugo, Russi, Lido Adriano;
- Women information and documentation centres.

3) PLANNING AND UPDATING OF DATABASE AND INFORMATIVE COMPUTER SERVICES
- Projecting and managing databases, websites and computer networks for Youth Information Centres spread on national territory.

4) IMMIGRATION
- Management of services for immigrants providing counselling and support for job research, legal consulting and Italian language courses for immigrants.

5) RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FIELD
- Researches concerning youth condition, history and memories of the communities, cultural differences.

6) PLANNING, MANAGING AND REALIZATION OF U.E. PROJECTS
- Realization of several U.E. projects such as Leonardo, Youthstart, Youth, Equal, in social and cultural field, Youth in action.

Inclusion topics

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Economic obstacles
• Geographical obstacles
• Social obstacles