ConFine25

Weekend of service, training and sharing at the borders of Europe

A journey that changes the way we look at the world at the borders that weave together stories of hope, challenges and transformation. This is where we set out each year for a unique experience, exploring places where the border is not just a line drawn on a map, but a reality lived and crossed every day.

Why participate?Let’s move from our centers to the suburbs: spaces where themes of migration and cross-cultural encounters come to life. During weekends at the borders, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Put yourself in service alongside those who support people in transit, listening to their stories and offering your input.
  • Train with experts/and solidarity associations to reflect on reception, human mobility, and border management policies.
  • Sharing moments of dialogue and exchange with fellow travelers, people in transit and local realities committed to building bridges instead of walls.

A journey to break down walls and build bridges

Through service, listening and reflection, we can inhabit spaces of co-responsibility and generate new processes of transformation. Together, we promote encounter and work for a society in which differences coexist, complementing and enriching each other.

Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of the change!

Join us to transform the border into a meeting place and build a future where differences do not divide, but enrich.

To participate in the camps, we ask you to contribute a donation of €50 (this does not have to be a barrier to participation; write to us if you would like to participate but do not think you can afford the full fee): it includes food, lodging, insurance and internal travel on camp days.

Instead, one will have to make their own arrangements for the necessary travel to and from the camp site.

Each camp will begin on Friday morning at 10 a.m.: there will be a chance to arrive and stay overnight as early as Thursday evening.

The end of the camp will be on Sunday around 3 p.m.

In addition, one online meeting is scheduled before departure and one upon return from the experience. More email info on where and how to donate and logistical issues will follow shortly. We ask that you add the e-mail from piupontimenomuri@ascs.it to your address book.

The proposals are aimed at young people aged 18 to 29.

Solo ConFine Trieste is also open to participants over 30.

Devising and implementing Confine25 isASCS – Scalabrinian Agency for Development Cooperation, with a staff of young people from various parts of Italy.

Each proposal is built together with various local, national and European partners including Fondazione Migrantes, Caritas Intemelia, Parrocchia di Rebbio, Rifugio Fraternità Massi, Diaconia Valdese, Rainbow for Africa, ICS Trieste and Linea D’Ombra.

ConFine25 is realized with the support of Fondazione Migrantes, Chiesa del Carmine di Milano, Fondazione della Comunità Chierese


  • WHEN?     March 21 at 10 a.m. (possibility of arriving April 20 evening) through March 23 at 3 p.m.
  • PRECAMPO: Monday, March 3, 9 p.m., online
  • POSTCAMPO: Tuesday, April 29, 9 p.m., online
  • WHERE? Ventimiglia lives on that land border that separates Italy from France, a crossing place for many people in transit from different migration routes, who attempt to reach France hoping to go unnoticed by the gaze of border police.
    This border is the perfect example of how an ID or skin color makes all the difference: luxury cars speed along the highways, crossing the French-Italian border; tourists of all backgrounds travel on trains from one side of the border to the other, to visit what is beautiful about these two countries. Very few steps away from them, men, women, sometimes whole families attempt to cross the Pass of Death, a long and winding mountain path that leads from Grimaldi to Menton, the first French town across the border.
  • WHAT? We will touch the border in all its forms: faces, stories, old rusty barriers, broken shoes and signs of hope. We will meet those in Ventimiglia who continue to engage alongside people on the move, in the face of the silence of the institutions, and we will do our best to be supportive: we will meet Caritas Intemelia, Diaconia Valdese, Red Cross.


  • WHEN?     March 28 at 10 a.m. (possibility of arriving April 27 evening) through March 30 at 3 p.m.
  • PRECAMPO: Monday, March 10, 9 p.m., online
  • POSTCAMPO: Tuesday, April 29, 9 p.m., online
  • WHERE? Trieste, gateway to Europe, terminus of the Balkan Route: every day through this city dozens of people enter Italy after walking for weeks through the woods of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, after months of travel that brought them here from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and many other Near Eastern countries.
  • WHAT? We will learn first-hand about the migration dynamics affecting Trieste, working alongside the day-to-day activities of supporting people on the move as they arrive in Trieste. We will hear from local actors whose daily actions are political witnesses to a radically alternative vision of what the border is.
    NB: This proposal is open to everyone, under 30 and over 30!


  • WHEN?     April 25 at 10 a.m. (possibility of arriving April 24 evening) through April 27 at 3 p.m.
  • PRECAMPO: Monday, April 14, 9 p.m., online
  • POSTCAMPO: Thursday, May 22, 9 p.m., online
  • WHERE? Oulx, a small mountain town in the upper Susa Valley behind Turin, has found itself to be a key transit hub for hundreds of men, women and children from Africa and the Near East heading for France: they all stop here before attempting to cross the border without being intercepted by border police.
  • WHAT? In Oulx, we will have a service experience, working with the operators and volunteers who run the shelter on the Italian side. We will meet the people staying in Oulx, listen to their stories, and help provide them with clean rooms, a hot meal and the necessities to continue their journey. We will delve into the phenomenon of human mobility along the Alpine route by meeting with witnesses, trainers and those who support people in transit on a daily basis. We will set out, along mountain paths to experience firsthand the difficulties of transit. We will hear the story of the Susa Valley, which all ‘of a sudden found itself to be a place of transit for thousands of people. We will reflect on the meaning of borders, European migration choices and the subtle but indispensable balance that holds the reception system in Oulx.


  • WHEN?     April 25 at 10 a.m. (possibility of arriving April 24 evening) through April 27 at 3 p.m.
  • PRECAMPO: Monday, April 14, 9 p.m., online
  • POSTCAMPO: Thursday, May 22, 9 p.m., online
  • WHERE? Como-Chiasso, Italian-Swiss border, beaten and crossed not only by Italian border crossers going to work in Switzerland, but also by people on the move trying to reach northern European countries. In recent months, people arriving in Trieste, from the Balkan Route and transiting to Milan and then continuing north. Border not well known but with important passive readmission numbers from Switzerland to Italy.
  • WHAT? We will experience an intense weekend on the border: getting to know, serving and sharing in contact with the migratory reality of the arrival of the Balkan Routes and heading to the countries of northern Europe.

Are you a large group or a smaller group of friends and would like to do activities along the ConFines?
Unfortunately, places for our weekends are limited, but don’t despair: email us and we will help you make your own arrangements to build Bridges in these frontier territories!
+info: piupontimenomuri@ascs.it

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