Project type: Erasmus +.KA2 Strategic Partnership for Adult Education

Title: Cities by heart, a unique journey in the heart of cities

Acronym: CITIES BY HEART

Reference number: 2019-1-FR-KA204-062217

Partner countries:  Netherlands, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Austria

Duration:   2 years (2019-2021)

The Erasmus+. KA2 Strategic Partnership project for Adult Education “CITIES BY HEART” is structured on two main phases:

• a peer training phase that will involve youth workers, stakeholders of the multicultural and disadvantaged territories, associations or social centres managers;
• a skill transfer phase to the young disadvantaged European citizens having a migratory personal path and facing integration issues in the labour market.

Main aim:

• to promote a type of “zero kilometre” tourism.

Specific objectives:

• to create links between the residents of urban areas in order to avoid community conflicts;
• to initiate dynamical economics to respond to the precarity of the disadvantaged neighbourhoods residents.

Target groups:

• adult people with migrant background (either newly arrived or settled in the neighbourhood several generations ago);
• inhabitants of disadvantaged territories;
• international tourists in search of new types of tours, closer to the population, to valorise the past and present Europe under the perspective of cultural diversity resulting from the migration;
• economic stakeholders of the urban areas with a strong cultural diversity: restaurant owners, traders, “hosts” inhabitants, etc., to whom which visits during the tours.