Main Projects / Activities

CODECA together with the European University of Cyprus and the organization “Social Element-Center for Social &
Human Development” were assigned by the Department of Social Integration of Persons with Disabilities within the
framework of the project "Creation of a Family Intervention and Support Centre for Autism", to create a Family
Intervention and Support Centre for Autism in order to provide specialized services to children up to the age of
compulsory education (4 years and 8 months), who have been diagnosed with autism, as well as to their families. The
project was included in the Operational Programme "EMPLOYMENT, HUMAN RESOURCES AND SOCIAL
Cohesion" 2014-2020.
The Organisation has long standing experience in design, development, and implementation of first line provision of
psychosocial services, professionals’ training in social issues and migration (asylum standards), intervention to
vulnerable populations, and to unaccompanied migrant children, mentoring and empowerment activities of young
people and assisting them to set their future professional pathways. CODECA and its staff also have experience in
the Design and implementation of professional & academic training programs as well as Face-to-Face and online
interventions (Blended Learning).
At present, CODECA is leading the Theory of Change Project that has just commenced and employs the art of
Rhetoric Speech as an innovative tool in education and training of migrant children in language learning,
empowerment and social integration activities. Based on the OECD ‘Making integration work’ volume on young
migrants, there are a host of challenges preventing them from benefitting from their host society’s educational system.
Language learning for young migrants is essential if they are to live in their host country and flourish in their new
society. The Project aims to design and implement critical thinking and critical speaking activities (Rhetoric Speech),
and create specialized training sessions in the form of non-formal education and experiential learning activities to train
young migrants about the language of their host country, and stakeholders on how to empower young migrants
through language learning activities and training.
It also a partner in an AMIL Project that aims to contribute to the sustainable integration of Third Country Nationals
(TCNs) into the labour market by promoting, extending, and encouraging the 'MEIC Migrants Economic Integration
Cluster'. It is an innovative and highly participatory approach to the labour market integration of TCNs, based on the
construction, at local level, of a strong public-private multi-stakeholder partnership composed of key territorial socioeconomic
actors prepared to act synergistically within a mutual long-term strategy allowing context-sensitive solutions.
CODECA is also a partner in the AMIR Project which intends to develop and test a local integration strategy geared
to both TCN and host communities to strengthen the effectiveness of migrant inclusion at regional and local levels. It
provides tangible good practices and their distribution through transnational cooperation between relevant
stakeholders to foster migrant inclusion through the design and implementation of local integration strategies focused
on housing, employment, and financial literacy, providing various kinds of training, running peer mentoring activities,
and creating know-how and best practices. The testing of the strategy will provide a better understanding of the
integration measures and will enable the definition of evidence-based methodologies and mechanisms replicable in
other EU countries.