Fundraiser: Photo Exhibition ‘Walking with the Caravan: Central American Exodus of 2018’

The Schuman Centre raised 200 EUR from the sale of the photographs of the exhibition ‘Walking with the Caravan: Central American Exodus of 2018’ which was displayed at the Schuman Centre in the framework of Luigi Achilli’s Marie Curie research project ‘MAPS – Migrants and People Smugglers’. The photographs were taken by the Brazilian photographer […]

Theatre Workshop with Officine Cavane

On 15 March 2019, the EUI Refugee Initiative organised a theatre workshop at the EUI together with the Italian cooperative Officine Cavane. It is a unique community based in the countryside near San Miniato, Pisa, where more than 40 asylum seekers live and take part in creative workshops and the fostering of the shared space. […]

Le Dimanche à Cavane, C’est Le Jour de l’Amitié

(Italian version below) On Sunday 27 January, a small delegation from the EUI Refugee Initiative (EUIRI) consisting of both volunteers and guests of the project headed to San Miniato (Pisa), precisely to Cavane, situated in Pisa’s industrial plain. Cavane is a small treasure in this wasteland, an excellent outcome of the combined effort between local […]

Pranzo in Amicizia

On 24 December 2018, our guests participated in the “Pranzo in Amicizia”, a Christmas Eve collective lunch organised by Società Culturale Arnaldo Fortini of Assisi. Just like every year since 2012, the event took place in the historical Palazzo Vallemani in Assisi with over 120 guests participating. The aim of this annual lunch is to […]