THE PROJECT
Objectives
The project aims at setting up a global and transferable strategy for combating multiple-discrimination, whose beneficiaries will be both the involved organisations and the victims of discrimination. The global strategy will be elaborated by the project partners, in collaboration with Local networks including a variety of organisations representing minorities and groups at risk of social discrimination, with the supervision of external experts.

The project objectives are:
1. Promoting the co-operation of organisations already existing and operating against discrimination, by managing Local networks.
2. Developing new anti-discrimination tools and strategies on a transnational level based on a discrimination survey.
3. Providing the Local Networks with quality tools, whose effectiveness shall be experimented and evaluated.

Phases
The project includes 5 main phases, and activities to be implemented on transnational and local level. The project aims at combining a scientific and practical approach for developing and experimenting an innovative practice that may become a permanent working style for partner organisation, therefore the project includes preparatory phases, as well as experimentation and results dissemination.

1st phase: Setting-up, management and co-ordination of a local Anti-discrimination Network
This phase is particularly delicate, because it aims at the facilitation of forms of dialogue and co-operation among organisations that are not used to work together, but face similar problems and need to develop similar strategies for combating discrimination.

2nd phase: Discrimination survey
As the project is based on forms of indirect discrimination, an accurate monitoring phase is particularly necessary in order to highlight those forms of discrimination that often escape from a precise identification. The survey is carried out through questionnaires that have been prepared, on the basis of the project partners indications, by experts from the University of Modena, Department of Sociology. External experts are also involved in the working out of quantitative and qualitative collected data. The project partners and the Local Networks are to play an active role in the data collection.

3rd phase: Working out of solution and pre-arrangement of goods and services
At this stage the partners compare and analyse the results of the survey, under the supervision of experts, with a sound of scientific and technical background. On the basis of the survey and of the Local Networks indications, they can select critical areas of multiple-discrimination where further action has to be taken. An operational strategy is finally set-up: common standards for information and services to be experimented in the next phase are defined, and the necessary information materials and facilitation services are pre-arranged.

4th phase: Experimentation of goods and services
This phase consists of the actual experimentation of the common strategies that the partners have elaborated. During this phase the persons exposed to multiple-discrimination will be provided with information and services and become active part in the evaluation of the action effectiveness.

5th phase: Evaluation and results dissemination
The final project phase is aimed at evaluating the experimentation and the overall project, in order to determine whether it was a success and to what extent the experimented action is sustainable and transferable. At the same time the project results are disseminated through information materials, press conferences, a public seminar and this web site.