Cooperativa sociale GEA

GEA is a non-profit Social Cooperative founded in 2004 in Padua. Its main goal is to promote and support processes of integration and active citizenship of vulnerable groups such as minors, migrant women, migrant families and communities of Veneto region. GEA has developed a solid experience in writing and managing EU funded projects (LLP, Europe for Citizens, European Fund for Third Country Nationals Integration…). GEA cooperates with regional and local public authorities in the field of social inclusion and sport (Municipalities and Veneto Region), schools, social organisations working with families, local grassroots sport clubs and associations. At regional and National level GEA is member of the regional consortium Consorzio Veneto Insieme, full member of the international NGOs network of OXFAM and member represented in the national board of Consorzio Nazionale Idee In Rete.

GEA’s staff is composed of members and associates with different professional and personal skills: anthropologists, intercultural integration experts, cultural and linguistic mediators, intercultural counselors, experts in migration law, projects accounting and administrative management.