ESC: Disability TEAMS project at Villaggio Marino - Ca’ Roman, Venice, Italy

Xena is a non-profit cultural association for the social promotion, based in Padova (Padua, North- Eastern Italy), which was founded in the autumn of 1994.
The association is active in the field of intercultural education, non-formal education, vocational training, promotion of active citizenship, promoting projects both at local and international level. Its main objective is to increase and improve the level of contact and interaction among different cultures. It promotes projects mainly within the frame of European Programs – such as Erasmus+ (former EVS, Youth Exchanges, Mobility of youth worker, VET, strategic partnership), ESC and others - with the following main aims: promote intercultural learning dynamics; prevent and fight racism and prejudices; offer young people the opportunity to join mobility programs in the vocational and social-cultural sphere, to promote comparisons between different cultures and systems; promote opportunities for meetings among different cultures and encourage greater knowledge of what is foreign; to promote the active participation of youth in society.
Xena works directly in contact with many youngsters with different backgrounds and socio-economical status, both in the transnational projects and at local level, with cultural activities, courses, workshops as well as in youth centers that are running with other organizations for Padua's Municipality. It works in co-operation with other bodies (European institutions, associations, municipalities, enterprises, schools, trade unions, informal groups, etc.) in Italy and abroad.