
Project Description
Snapshots From the Borders is a 3-year project co-funded by the European Union (EuropeAid DEAR budget line), run by 35 partners, border Local Authorities and Civil Society Organisations. The project, coordinated by the Municipality of Lampedusa and Linosa, aims to improve critical understanding of European, national and local decision makers and of public opinion about global interdependencies determining migration flows towards European borders, in the perspective of reaching SDG targets, especially SDG 1, 5, 10, 11 and 16.
Specifically, the project intends to strengthen a new horizontal, active network among cities directly facing migration flows at EU borders, as a way to promote more effective policy coherence at all levels (European, national, local).
In the frame of the project, the No more bricks in the wall campaign has been developed both at local (town level), national (member state level) and EU level (Brussels and EU institutions), composed of materials, social media action, concerts and festivals, exhibitions. The campaign is coordinated by AMREF and aims to inform European citizens that migration is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon and a political issue which needs efforts and concrete actions taken by people and organizations/networks at all levels of society.
A better understanding by Europeans of migration as a development issue paired with engagement fosters global citizenship and builds strong bonds of solidarity. Borders’ direct perspectives and engagement are an added value for raising awareness, sharing knowledge, encouraging participation and showing citizens that they have an important role to play. By bringing voices and effective solutions from the borders where migration is lived directly, people will be more informed and aware of the determinants and actions and they will become protagonists in calling for a fair world. Messages reaching the EU public through media present migration as an emergency problem with negative impact oversimplifying causes and determinants. Once people are aware of the dimension, implication, causes and solutions, they will seek a change of attitude in terms of support for civil society.
At the end, the ultimate scope of the campaign is: to attract citizens in Border Territories and all around Europe both already keen to solidarity towards migrants.
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Project Details
Title ‘Snapshots from the borders – Small towns facing the global challenges of Agenda 2030’
Country Italy & other 12 EU countries
Donor European Commission – Directorate-General for Internal Cooperation & Development
Budget Line EuropeAid/151103/DH/ACT/Multi (Development Education and Raising Awareness Programme)
Reference Number CSO-LA/2017/388-115
Sectors migrations, development awareness, campaigning, advocacy
Implementing Partners
- Municipality of Lampedusa and Linosa (Lead agency)
- Africa e Mediterraneo
- Agios Athanasios Municipality
- AMREF Salud Africa
- AMREF Health Africa
- Balkan Institute for Labour and Social Policy
- Autonomous Province of Bozen – Alto Adige
- Burgas Municipality
- Municipality of Pesaro
- Constanta Municipality
- Crnomelj Municipality
- CROMO Foundation
- CSV Marche
- EWNT
- Ville de Grande-Synthe
- ISCOMET
- Cabildo de Tenerife
- Kekapel
- Kopin
- Maribor Municipality
- Marsa Municipality
- Local Democracy Agency Mostar
- NOVAPOLIS
- Regione Puglia
- Municipality of Rhodes
- Siklosnagyfalu
- Municipality of Strass in Steiermark and Sentilj
- Suedwind
- Traiskirchen
- Edelstam Foundation
- FORUM Idéburna Organisationer med social inriktning
- COPPEM
- National and Kapodistrian Unversity of Athens
- School of Medicine – Master’s Course in Global Health Disaster Medicine
- IPRES
- North Aegean Region
Overall project value EUR 5.367.995
% of donor’s funding 90%
Dates (start/end) October 2017 – October 2020
Beneficiaries
- 260 decision / law makers at town, national and EU level
- 390 civil servants
- 45.000 EU citizens reached by transnational activities
- 2.000.000 citizens reached by web/social campaign