Stigmamente is a good partner for CERV?
Stigmamente is an Italian civil-society organisation active in mental-health promotion, fragile diversities, non-communicable diseases and medical humanities. Alongside research and public awareness, we develop formal, non-formal and informal learning opportunities for people of working age, particularly:
- healthcare and social-care professionals;
- adult educators and trainers;
- youth workers;
- NGO staff and volunteers;
- professionals working with vulnerable or discriminated groups;
- adults returning to education and training.
Our contribution to the Pact for Skills can be summarised through the following existing and ongoing activities.
1. Job shadowing and peer learning in public mental-health services
Within our European cooperation activities in Erasmus+ Adult Education and VET, Stigmamente has established a job-shadowing and peer-learning pathway for healthcare professionals in cooperation with the provincial public mental-health service, DSM ASL Foggia.
The experience involved professionals visiting mental-health and neurodevelopmental services and supported the development and exchange of competences in:
- multidisciplinary mental-health practice;
- stigma-sensitive communication;
- relationships with service users and families;
- community-based and hospital-based care;
- neurodevelopmental and autism services;
- transfer of inclusive professional practices between European organisations.
This activity represents work-based upskilling for health and social-care professionals of working age.
Evidence:
https://epale.ec.europa.eu/it/blog/job-shadowing-salute-mentale-una-piccola-esperienza-paradigmatica
2. Upskilling, literacy and return to education for Roma adults
Stigmamente is currently a partner in the Erasmus+ KA210-ADU project “Educational Perspectives: Understanding the Needs of Adult Roma”, project number 2025-1-RS01-KA210-ADU-000356338, funded through Fondacija Tempus, the Serbian National Agency.
Our work combines three interconnected strands.
First, we are working to facilitate access to literacy and adult-learning opportunities for Roma adults from our local reference community. This includes cultural mediation and cooperation with the CPIA of Foggia, the public adult-education centre.
Second, the project encourages Roma adults to return to learning and to consider new upskilling and reskilling pathways connected with literacy, employability, participation and social inclusion.
Third, we work with adult educators, public-service personnel, civil-society organisations and other stakeholders to identify and reduce the stigma that may discourage adults from returning to education.
The project therefore addresses both sides of the skills process: supporting Roma adults in re-entering education and improving the competences of the professionals and organisations responsible for accompanying them.
Evidence on adult education, employment and inclusion:
https://epale.ec.europa.eu/it/blog/educazione-degli-adulti-occupazione-e-inclusione-dei-rom-unindagine-sulle-percezioni-sociali
Evidence on stigma towards adults returning to education:
https://epale.ec.europa.eu/it/blog/stigma-verso-gli-adulti-che-tornano-formarsi-5-infografiche
3. Non-formal adult education and transversal skills
Through cooperation with adult-learning organisations, civil-society networks and third-age education settings, Stigmamente promotes renewed participation in lifelong learning.
Our activities encourage adults, including people returning to learning and those in later working life, to develop or renew:
- emotional competences;
- socio-relational and communication skills;
- health and mental-health literacy;
- preventive health competences;
- critical thinking;
- civic participation and advocacy skills;
- the ability to understand and communicate experiences of illness, vulnerability and care through medical humanities.
These are transversal skills that can strengthen professional adaptation, participation, personal development and the capacity to operate in health, education, cultural and civil-society environments.
4. Digital and visual literacy through FE(DI)²XA
To address emerging digital-skills needs, Stigmamente has developed FE(DI)²XA – Fluid Euristic Digital Dispositive for Art, a methodological model for understanding generative images through adult education.
FE(DI)²XA contributes to digital upskilling by helping adult learners, educators, cultural professionals, communicators and civil-society staff develop competences in:
- critical interpretation of digital and generative images;
- responsible use of generative artificial intelligence;
- recognition of stereotypes, stigma and visual bias;
- assessment of authorship, authenticity and human–AI interaction;
- ethical digital communication;
- visual and media literacy.
The model is intended not only for artists but also for adults who need to understand the increasingly complex visual environment encountered in professional, educational and civic life.
Evidence:
https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/fedi2xa-understanding-generative-art-through-adult-education
5. European learning environments
Stigmamente disseminates and develops these activities through EPALE, Erasmus+ Adult Education, Erasmus+ VET and SALTO-YOUTH.
In the youth field, our focus is also on upskilling people of working age, particularly youth workers, facilitators and civil-society professionals involved in non-formal education, inclusion, mental-health promotion and the prevention of social isolation.
Contribution to upskilling and reskilling
Our activities contribute to upskilling by strengthening the current professional competences of healthcare workers, social-care personnel, adult educators, youth workers, NGO staff and volunteers.
They contribute to reskilling by:
- supporting adults who wish to return to education;
- facilitating access to literacy and new learning pathways for Roma adults;
- enabling professionals and volunteers to acquire new digital, AI, communication and project-development competences;
- preparing civil-society and educational personnel to work more effectively with vulnerable and discriminated groups.
To make this contribution measurable, Stigmamente is prepared to undertake the following annual commitments:
- deliver at least three structured upskilling or reskilling activities;
- involve at least 50 people of working age in seminars, workshops or learning activities;
- organise or support at least one structured job-shadowing or peer-learning experience, involving at least four professionals;
- develop or update at least three training modules, methodological tools or learning resources;
- involve at least six health, education, adult-learning or civil-society organisations;
- monitor participation, learning outcomes and the involvement of people or organisations with fewer opportunities.
We hope that these clarifications demonstrate that Stigmamente’s activities are directly connected to the Pact for Skills objective of mobilising concrete action for the upskilling and reskilling of people of working age.
We would be grateful if our application could be reconsidered in light of this additional information. We are also available to update the short organisational description and the commitments contained in the original application form.
Kind regards,
Luigi Starace
President
Stigmamente APS
Italy
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