Ongoing Projects

The FAIR project aims to address the inequalities faced by asylum seekers and encourage their participation in social life. The main objectives are psychological well-being, legal protection and access to fundamental rights. Coordinated by Centro Astalli Trento, the project involves Popoli Insieme (Padua), ASGI and the University of Trento, with support from the Psicologi di Strada Association in Padua. Activities include legal and territorial services guidance desks, psychological support and training courses for operators. The University of Trento will be in charge of monitoring and evaluating the project’s impact, ensuring the quality and sustainability of its actions.

The COME project – Competencies for the Employability of Migrants and Those at Risk of Exclusion, launched in January 2025, aims to target 60 migrants this year who are socio-economically vulnerable due to unemployment or temporary/irregular employment. The project seeks to reduce unemployment rates and improve the quality of employment for these individuals by enhancing both their transversal and specific skills.

The main activities include personalized support pathways with workshops aimed at strengthening transversal skills (such as Italian language, financial education, digital literacy, understanding rights and duties at work, interpersonal skills, etc.), specific training courses, and measures to support work-life balance and mobility. 

The project is promoted by Popoli Insieme with the contribution of the San Zeno Foundation, which for over 20 years has been promoting study, training, and employment opportunities in Italy and worldwide to assist those facing difficult situations in building their autonomy, both economically and intellectually. 

“Impariamo a Sognare – Learn to Drem” is a three-year project aimed at combating educational poverty, funded by the Agency for Territorial Cohesion. The project specifically targets minors aged between 11 and 17 living in the southeastern neighborhoods of Padua. The title “Impariamo a Sognare” (Learn to Dream) concisely expresses the project’s goal and methodology: “Learn…” not alone, but together, involving the community to become “educative” and, in turn, engage the minors to whom the project is addressed; “…to Dream,” because social poverty, and in particular educational poverty, is closely linked to the opportunities that young people have to imagine and envision their future.

To learn more, visit the website. 

Finding a house in Padua is becoming increasingly difficult, particularly for foreign students. This is due to an objective shortage of housing solutions in the city and beds in university dormitories, but also to a reluctance on the part of landlords to rent to foreign tenants.

For many students, the joy of receiving a scholarship is quickly overshadowed by the stress and difficulty of finding accommodation, making it harder for them to integrate into the new social context and build a network in the area. Could living together be the solution?

Over the past few years, the Association Popoli Insieme has strengthened relationships with students residing at the Centro Antonianum, and from this exchange, the idea of the “Arrupe Project” was born. In the last 2 years, 15 university students who are refugees and/or seeking international protection have been placed in the involved residences. The Arrupe Project has allowed all students, both Italian and foreign, to discover and build a new daily life together and to feel at the center of an educational and community growth project in an intercultural context.

The heart of the Arrupe Project is the creation of a shared living experience where students can feel like protagonists in a personal and collective educational journey, take care of their inner selves, and build their future based on the richness of interaction and encounter with others, because “the more we deal with each other, the better we will understand each other” (A. Langer).