Erasmus+ project

1. Cooking for freedom
Erasmus Plus 2016-
2018
Call 2016 KA204 – Strategic Partnerships for Adult
Education – Exchanges of practices
Project number 2016-1-IT02-KA204-024290

2. Partners
Italy
Cooperativa
Beniamino ONLUS
Associazione
Antigone Onlus
ONG
Istituto Statale di
Istruzione Superiore
"R. Foresi«
vocational school
Condotta Slow Food
dell'Isola d'Elba
ONG
Turkey
Gazi Universitesi
Yldirim Beyazit
vocational school
Portugal
CONFIAR -
Associação de
Fraternidade
Prisional
Agrupamento de
Escolas D. Carlos I -
Sintra
Direção-Geral de
Reinserção e
Serviços Prisionais
Lithuania
Socialiniai Paramos
Projektai
ONG “Social
Support Projects”

3. Project objectives
Sharing good practices
Building professional
course for integration in
work market
Social Inclusion
Stages and training >>>
work agreement
Training for social
workers
Write a manual about
training of social
workers and abour
professional courses

4. The Cooking for Freedom project's primary objective is to produce
an inclusive education given to inmates
who come to freedom, so as to provide
them a spendable professionalism in
the workplace. Through the acquisition of a professional, in
fact, it is more likely that the return to society can be successful for them,
because it can contribute to getting them into work. Moreover, even
during the course it is possible that
they may know companies and
manufacturers available then to hire them at the end of the
course. In reference to the young students of vocational schools, also,
the goal is to let them share a training course with the prisoners, making
them also experience in being their own trainers, but above all the training
becomes sharing tool and inclusion, since, albeit from different sources and
pathways, both groups share the same goal: the acquisition of quality skills

5. As for the objective of education of adults, the project
also aims to develop and implement the
basic skills and key competencies that
are essential to be able to stay on a job.
Inmates, in fact, long time no longer work and in some cases have
never worked and therefore becomes crucial to present them some
basic skills to support them into employment.
Finally, it is very important to the goal
of providing high quality training. Often the
professional courses are considered secondary courses, lacking a
strong formative quality. In our view, however, it is very important,
both for students and prisoners, to be engaged in a training program,
both theoretical and practical (through stages) of high quality for only
in this way you can really experience their potential and enter fully
into the world of work. The project, therefore, aims to provide high
quality training offer, including through internships at local
companies, in order to build professionalism and high skills in young
students is that among the inmates.

6. The Cooking for Freedom project stems from the need to
promote discussion and exchange of
good practice around vocational
training and prison. The discussion between some of
the partners of the previous project (Taste Of
Freedom) has revealed the need to opening
up scope for further debate about the role of
vocational training and working in prison
system, about the experience of taking root in a local territory as
a means to improve the effectiveness of education system targeted
at social risk categories, such as prisoners.
This debate’s main goal is the promotion and the
development of educational path, which can
bring together the best proposals from the
partners of the project and implement them

7. The partners have identified and agreed with some premises
without which it is difficult to believe that vocational training in
prison can become a real opportunity for reintegration:
• Given the peculiarity of the target audience,
there is the risk that the vocational training become just a leisure activity with
little rehabilitation and reintegration value. The vocational
training needs a strong support from a
network outside the prison system to become really
effective. Who promotes and implements vocational training needs to define at
the beginning which strategy he intends to adopt and, in particular, what value
it may have for prisoners regarding the general purposes, such as
humanization of punishment, the acquirement of basic skills, the mere
tutoring, the experimentation of training path with no previous or too far in the
past experience in vocational training
• Some programs are likely to be affected by
subjective difficulties expressed by the target audience,

8. • In many cases, educational activities, mainly those outside the institution,
come into conflict with some internal
organization aspects: times, locations, access to materials,
transfer of prisoners, etc.
• It is often a risk of distrust of businesses about the potential of
the target and the effectiveness of the courses;
• Knowledge and skills in the restaurant
industry can largely be spent in the field of occupational
reintegration;
• it is extremely necessary to promote a better food and
nutrition culture even within the prison institution;
• The chance, even for young people included
in the standard training programs, to improve
their experiences working with institutional.

9. As a result of partner’s analysis and sharing of the main
issues identified, concrete objectives of the
project are:
• Create and test pilot training courses that
could be models, planned with the cooperation
between prison institution, educational
institutions and a wide territorial network of associations
and companies that deal with catering and nutrition;
• Develop strategic skills of qualified personnel
in order to achieve integration between different
organizations to identify the needs of the labor market
and design the ultimate goal in relation to them;
• Develop a network, also on the EU level, able to

10. • Promote the exchange of good practices
between the Partnership, reproducible and useful at EU
level, in order to promote learning processes of adults in custody
and more effective collaboration between the prison institution and
educational institutions;
• Receive useful recommendations to
support effective policies for employment and the
inclusion of disadvantaged adults;
• Promote Training and internships which
integrate the presence of students from
classical training programs and adults from
specific training programs.

11. 1) More collaboration between what exists: at the
local level it is expected an implementation of the branch
network and increased
cooperation between the existing realities working in the
field of training and dealing in prison;
2) social response: we expect locally also stimulate a
positive response of the territory around the activation of
resources of prisoners
and promote positive experiences of integration of
prisoners into society;
3) Political response: we expect to stimulate local
institutions to promote greater investment on integration
policies of detention;
THE DESIRED IMPACT (Locally)

12. 4) identification and involvement of specific groups of
users and of corporate networks of companies;
5) Creating something new: creating networks, both at
local and regional level, to involve training agencies,
educational and clinical
services, companies and trade associations made aware
of the issues covered by the project;
6) Competences: development of the competences of
the professionals directly involved in the project as well
as other professionals
of the field;
THE DESIRED IMPACT (Locally)

13. 1) the testing and the exchange of views between
partners at a transnational level will provide tools and
models ready for the use in different national contexts,
that will be disseminate by the national networks;
2) the project will also create references to replicate the
experiences at a national level;
3) development of the website will be an opportunity
for the exchange of information between
professionals, organizations,
institutions and to download the project outputs,
including the training course directed to the staff and the
planning of the work inclusion paths;
THE DESIRED IMPACT (Nationally)

14. 4) Further, the website will represent a permanent
tool, continuously updated in order to develop
networks at a national level;
5) We expect to offer concrete models for developing
a close cooperation between training agencies,
assistance and clinical services,
companies;
6) We also expect the development of new perspectives
of stability and efficacy in the social, educational and
insertion fields addressed to the target;
7) the network will last beyond the end of the project
and will be widen at national and transnational
levels.
THE DESIRED IMPACT (Nationally)

15. 1) creation of tools, models, procedures, prototypes
of paths / projects reproducible in different countries and
contexts in Europe, partly because made from the
comparison and joint experimentation in partner
countries, and easily accessible to professionals and
organizations
2) concrete contribution to achieve the EU Council
objectives regarding the employment rate (75% for
people aged 20 to 64 years old), by the development of
reproducible and concrete tools, models and inclusion
projects directed to segments of population often
excluded from the labor market and able to act since the
young age
3) provision of relevant and comparable data
THE DESIRED IMPACT (EU level)

16. 4) creation of tools and models uniform and flexible, thus
to allow the comparison of the processes of
integration for adult people who are serving a
sentence;
5) relevant contribution concerning the Council
indications in terms of creating comparable models in to
allow the exchange
between different countries;
6) consolidate relationship between UE partners and
sharing of good practices for further collaborations.
THE DESIRED IMPACT (EU level)

17. The development of the permanent network and of the website will allow to
update progressively the collected data and to evaluate
periodically the impact gained even beyond the project end.
Project partners will manage the website and the network. Every four
months they will analyze the data linked to the impact, to the
involvement of persons and organisations and to the implementation of the
interventions.
In addition, this ongoing process is guaranteed by the fact that the
construction of the permanent network, its increase and the
comparison between the partners becomes essential for the development of
opportunities for the partners and for the realization of
new initiatives.
Therefore, the project impact will be evaluated through the collection and
organization of the aspects we indicate here following, in
the reports elaborated during the lifetime of the project and beyond the
project end, made available on the website. The website
Measuring impact
The previously detailed impact on the different target groups and
organisations will be measured using both a quantitative and
qualitative orientation, during the implementation phase of the
project as well as its end

18. Regarding participants and other persons involved during and after
the project:
-N. of inmates and young students involved during the various
stages of the project and their interest and frequency in the
professional course
-N. of contacted and involved companies
-N. of involved companies open for stages
-N. of participants attending at the awareness days and to
dissemination activities
-N. of professionals that will visit the website, will download the
outputs, will join the network
-N. of companies that will actively participate to develop job
opportunities, identify tasks and contracts to be outsourced, willing
to employ
N. and type of organisations: public, private, from professional
education, education and work inclusion
-N. of organizations and institutions involved in the
dissemination activities
Impact numbers

19. Regarding the project’s results
-N. of stages and work contract effectively obteined at the end of the
project
-Level of reproducibility of the processes and of the projects in terms of
both structure and contents
-N. and quality of the courses actually carried out
-The quality of the results will be measured using the procedures foreseen in
the evaluation plan and assessing the effective completeness, clarity, ease
of handling and reproducibility in different contexts
-Actual access to the site, level of access and usability of the tools
created
The site will be equipped with specific sections and easy to use, every visitor
will have the opportunity to enter their assessment in
relation to the accessibility of the site, the usability of the tools, their quality,
efficacy, their applicability. The organizations will be invited to evaluate,
through simple and useful tools, the quality, the usability, the
immediate application of the tools and models created.
Impact numbers

20. Professional Course, stages and work agreement
-N. of stages made during the project
-N. of work agreement (job placement) obteined at the end of the
project for the young students
-N. of work agreement (job placement) obteined at the end of the
project for the inmates
-N. of participants at professional courses
-N. of course started up after the end of the project
Impact numbers
Furthermore, during the preparation, implementation and
evaluation stages of the project, we’ll identify the
performance indicators.
Partners will periodically analyze the collected data. This
process will allow the ongoing updating and the improvement
of the tools
developed as well as the development of their reproducibility.

21. Implementation
All the partners havo to activate a territorial
network with prison, school and companies
Training for
social
workers
Involvement
ofprisonand
professional
school
Contacts
with
companies
of territory
Professional course

22. Training course for inmates
(draft)
1 year
(01-2017 – 12-
2017)
School learning
6 months
(01-2018 – 06-
2018)
Stages
School
learning:
Front lessons
Peer education (with
young students)
Psico-educational
lessons
Stages and training in
companies
Final
certificate

23. Instruments –
comunication and coordination
Whatsapp group, limited coordination (1 contact for
each country)
Mail group (1 contact for each partner)
Skype
Dropbox to sharing documents and files
Website
International Meetings

24. International meetings: calendar
January 2017 Long Training Portugal
April 2017 Meeting 1: Italy
September 2017 Meeting 4: Lithuania
February 2018 Meeting 5: Turckey
June 2018 Final meeting: Italy

25. Let’s go to work!