The Intercultural city aims at building its policies and identity on the explicit acknowledgement that diversity can be a resource for the development of the society.To create a group of immigrant or immigrant descendent mediators (giving them training and support) in order to develop activities of animation and mediation in contexts signalled by the teachers, functioning as a resource for the various educational activities. These mediators are interlocutors in the pupil/school/ guardian triangle and a source for signalling specific individualised interventions.
The action consists in working with young adults who are unemployed and live in social contexts of exclusion, often coinciding with the provenance of the signalled situations, and facilitates the relationship enabling their identification and intervention. Schools feel that they have a quality resource: availability to play with students in the playground, management of emerging conflicts among students, identification and signalling of problem situations.
The partners committed to the practice include the creation of a consortium that includes schools, youth associations, toy libraries and the IPSS that monitors the project. The consortium plays a central role in helping to break down prejudices about some families by trying other ways of approaching problem situations.
