Projects

Among the main projects developed by Vita Comunicazione there are:


"IRENE.T PROJECT" – LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME LEONARDO DA VINCI (2008 - Ongoing)

The project aims at building and developing the IRENE.T net - SocIal EnteRprises European NEtwork for Training - which will work on the issue of professional training for third sector organizations in Europe. IRENE.T will contribute to the pursuit of the following objectives: improving the quality and the amount of cooperation in the professional training field of the Third Sector, facilitating the development of innovative good practice in professional training, promoting and supporting the dialogue among the European actors of the Third Sector. VITA Comunicazione is one of the 15 European partners of the net, its main duty is the organization of the network communication aspects.



"AFRO PROJECT" (2009-Ongoing)

The "AFRO" project intends to promote a profitable synergy between information and solidarity, and encourage the development of cultural relations between Africa and Europe, particularly Italy. Its aim is to diffuse, through the offer of quality information, a better knowledge of social conditions on the African continent. The operational instruments to pursue such an aim are: the creation of a news alert agency distributed by Telpress. Using a vast array of collaborators capable of producing journalistic material adapted to the constant challenges related to African society and its growth a news portal - www.afronline.org - which mission will be to augment the visibility of African information experience from below; the promotion of training activities aimed at African journalists and representatives of African civil society. Afronline aims to reinforce the voice of the media produced by African civil society, giving them visibility as well as Italian and European fruition. From 2009, Afronline also started to build a network with African Independent newspapers in order to strengthen their ‘World’ section through the publication of interviews and articles on development cooperation, civil society, human rights, agriculture, rural development, MDGs issues, social economy, etc.



The CTA, in collaboration with the European Commission, the EU Presidency, the ACP Group, Concord and other partners organizes regular development Briefing sessions in Brussels on key issues and challenges for rural development in the context of EU/ACP cooperation.
VITA Comunicazione received the assignment of ensuring coverage of three Brussels Development Briefings (14th September 2011, 30th November 2011 and 22nd February 2012) by African newspapers (Sud Quotidien, Senegal; Les Echos du Mali, Mali; Le Républicain, Niger; Addis Fortune, Ethiopia; The Zimbabwean, Zimbabwe), and Afronline.org. The project forsees the publications of interviews, articles written by high-level experts and cartoons produced by one of the famous African cartoonist, Damien Glez.



Club VITA (2002 - Ongoing)

Club VITA is a project created in 2002 with the aim of investing in youth education and talent, offering a space for creativity, debates and confrontation, in order to promote and support youngsters’ growth.

Every year Club VITA promotes a calendar of diverse and stimulating social events, inviting civil society to think about the most pressing and important Third Sector issues and welfare.

Since its creation, Club VITA, has conceived and organized several congresses, seminars, art and photo exhibitions, theatre events and school projects, gaining recognition and being able to deal with different realities.

Club VITA has organized the Glocal Art, contemporary art exhibitions which brought to Milan five young Middle Eastern artists and Glocal Art 2. Young Artists without a wall (2009) which aimed at raising awareness about the issues of intercultural and inter-religious dialogues, through the direct involvement of young immigrant artists and their reference communities..



"MOSE PROJECT" - AN INNOVATIVE TRAINING MODEL FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE PROFESSIONAL/QUALIFICATIONS (2006-2008)

From 2006 to 2008 VITA Comunicazione took part in the Mose project. Mose - "An Innovative Training Model for Social Enterprise Professional/Qualifications", is an experimental project financed by the EU Commission as part of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme. The Leonardo Da Vinci project has among its objectives the development of the quality and the innovation in the professional training for social enterprise managers from a European perspective.
The main objectives of the project have been:

  1. identifying, defining and describing the skills of social enterprises top and middle management, especially the roles of the social finance expert, the social marketing expert and the social communication expert;
  2. identifying, defining and developing innovative training paths based on a blended approach which allows a mix of formal and informal training, also through the use of modern IT technologies. Eleven partners from five European nations took part in the MOSE project.