The ABACUS Project: towards the Cultural Basins in Sicily

The ABACUS Project is funded by the Regional Administration of Sicily – Department for Family, Social Policy and Labour, and the Presidency of the Italian Ministry Council – Department for Youth Policy and the National Civil Service, under the National Funds for Youth Policy for 2014-2016 years.
The ABACUS Project is being implemented by a Public & Private Partnership composed by four partners, two private no profit Organizations, EuPsiche Association and MeRIDIES Association, and two public Schools, the National Professional Institute for Eno-gastronomy and Hospitality Services “Pietro Piazza”, Palermo (Western Sicily), and the National Professional Institute “Calogero Amato Vetrano”, Sciacca (Agrigento, Western Sicily).
The ABACUS Project is particularly devoted to Young People, both Students and NEET from 17 to 20 years old, inhabitants of the territory of the two “Cultural Basins” of the Oreto River (within the Palermo administrative province) and the Belìce River (within the two administrative provinces of Agrigento and Trapani).
The primary aim of the ABACUS Project is to engage proactively both Students and NEET in co-creating and acting individually and collectively through a self-elected and self-maintained “Community of knowledge and interpretation” of the socio-cultural, economic and environmental values and assets of their own native/elective territories and urban or rural contextes.
Find out more on the ABACUS Project on the dedicated web pages on DSI4Eu, the public web platform for the Digital Social Innovation in Europe.