Gender equality boosts economic growth

Ottavia Spaggiari

A new study reveals that gender equality would generate up to 10.5 million new jobs by 2050, contributing the EU employment rate to reach almost 80% and increasing the GDP per capita up to nearly 10% by 2050

Paris, the food and solidarity Give Box is born

Cristina Barbetta

A project of the association Cap ou pas cap and of the collective of architects “On a pensé un truc”, the Garde-Manger (Food and Solidarity Give Box) in Paris is having a great success

Virtuous Triangle, a model of integration of refugees in Turkey

Cristina Barbetta

Virtuous Triangle is a model of integration that creates a triangular ecosystem formed by a Turkish primary school child, a refugee pupil and a university student. The model is based on principles of reciprocity, profitability and mutual understanding.

Solidarity Salt, integrating migrants thanks to salt

Cristina Barbetta

Solidarity salt is a new social enterprise empowering women refugees in Greece through selling sea salt, developing at the same time the local economy.

This is how French families welcome elderly people

Cristina Barbetta

Cette famille is a French social enterprise allowing elderly people to have an alternative to retirement homes, thanks to a network of welcoming families (familles d’accueil).

Les Cuistots Migrateurs, the migrants' catering

Cristina Barbetta

2 Parisian entrepreneurs put together a team of chefs refugees , “to change the view on migrants and to enhance the cultural background they bring, their competence and their authentic and unknown cuisines”.

Riace, a utopia turned into reality

Cristina Barbetta

A boat full of migrants arrives on the shores of the Calabrian village of Riace, historic place of migration. The little town welcomes the migrants, who are seen as a resource, not as a threaten. This is the story told in the documentary "Un paese di Calabria" (“ A village of Calabria”).

Anti-trafficking system on the verge of collapse in northern Italy

Ottavia Spaggiari

An increasing number of migrant women arriving in Italy are being forced into prostitution but the budget cuts are making it impossible for the anti-trafficking system to help them

Money Mechanics, MyBnk’s latest winning project

Cristina Barbetta

The English charity has won the People's Postcode Lottery, in partnership with the Royal Association for Deaf People (RAD) and The Royal London Society for Blind People (RLSB)

Launch of new call for projects: “ It is my heritage”

Staff

France has launched the plan "It's my heritage", aiming at enabling all those people who don’t have access to the diversity of the French heritage (architecture, archive, museums, monuments, landscapes…) to discover it.