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ICSE&Co. (International Center for Southern Europe) is a non-profit organization linked to the Political Sciences Department of the University of Florence. Since 2010 we have worked in three main sectors:
✓ Sustainable development: promoting sustainable social development, especially in the Mediterranean area, mainly through lifelong learning tools. We currently run and manage stimulating projects that produce a change in society and in the participants;
✓ Young people and intercultural issues: analyzing and advocate for intercultural activities and projects to enhance the opportunity of development in civil societies in Europe, in particular, we continue offering young people opportunities to develop their professional and personal skills in a multicultural and international
environment;
✓ Institutional social project development: through social research focusing on the constantly changing characteristics of a society, we offer support and project management, and implementation to municipalities, regions and national and international entities.
Our network includes a wide range of actor, from the single participant to local and international associations, public authorities, universities and ministerial agencies.
Our vision is to better understand the global involvement of single pieces of the whole puzzle, interacting and working together in a wealthier way.

Our staff expertise is grounded in different fields, with a particular mastery in Social Innovation and Global Education with Intercultural topics, migrant, local development, internationalisation and social inclusion. Another excellent skill that our staff praises is social and cultural research, with quantitative and qualitative perspectives. >http://www.icse-co.org/it/educazione-globale/
Since 2014 we have hosted more than 300 participants in our projects in Italy and have sent more than 800 in international Erasmus+ exchanges around the world. Main topics were linked to social inclusion, art, sustainability, environment, network development, young entrepreneurship ect., regardless of their educational, cultural, ethnic, social, etc. background and its activities are always based on the needs and interest of them and the society.

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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
• Refugees