Solidarity for Integration in Covid time

"S.I.C - Solidarity of integration in Covid time" intends to promote exchanges and twinning with cities in partner countries (located in Poland, Albania, Portugal, Ukraine, Spain and Turkey) in order to raise awareness, from a gender equality perspective, on the importance of strengthening the European integration process based on solidarity, aiming at developing useful reflections, in particular, on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had and has on the life and functioning of local communities, as well as on the forms that civic participation has taken under the COVID-19 crisis. "Solidarity": a shared value, a feeling of mutual aid and brotherhood manifested through supportive actions that Europe is demonstrating even during the health emergency triggered by the coronavirus epidemic, responsible for the Covid-19 disease that had a strong impact on people's lives and rights throughout the EU. It is this solidarity that we want to celebrate by underlining how during the crisis many EU countries did not hold back and extended a hand to Italy and other countries most affected by the health emergency. Forums and awareness-raising meetings will be organised (4 thematic meetings-workshops, 2 neighbourhood walks with the involvement of host families) in which common solutions can be discussed constructively, focusing in particular on these years of health emergency which, among the various lockdowns and the economic recession that followed, have had a disproportionate impact on the lives of people with low incomes or who are poor. The primary focus will be on creating shared relationships and synergies between the twinned cities in order to exchange good practices regarding the many solidarity-based initiatives that have been created and developed since the beginning of the COVID19 crisis to date (the events must involve a minimum of 50 direct participants, of whom a minimum of 25 are "invited participants").