After a journey of listening, dialogue and co-creation, the SoulFood project officially enters its piloting phase.
This is a key moment in which ideas turn into practice and what has been built together takes concrete shape within an experimental pathway involving at least 15 women with a migrant background.
At the heart of the piloting phase is cooking, understood as a privileged space for learning, relationships and personal growth. However, Soulfood goes beyond cooking itself: the kitchen becomes the starting point for developing transversal skills and digital skills, which are essential both for everyday life and for work and job searching.
The kitchen as a first place of learning
In SoulFood, the kitchen is the core of the project.
It is a familiar, practical and accessible space where learning happens through doing. Preparing a meal means organising, following a process, collaborating, making decisions and solving problems — all skills that belong to everyday life as well as to the world of work.
During the piloting phase, at least 15 women with a migrant background will work in the kitchen not only to acquire basic knowledge related to food and nutrition, but also to strengthen autonomy, responsibility and awareness.
From the kitchen to transversal skills
Through practical activities, SoulFood aims to strengthen transversal skills that are often already present but not always recognised:
teamwork, communication, time management, flexibility and adaptability.
The kitchen thus becomes a laboratory where at least 15 women with a migrant background can discover and enhance skills that are also valuable in professional contexts, learning how to recognise them and talk about them.
Digital skills for everyday life and work
Alongside the practical and relational dimension, the piloting phase integrates the development of digital skills, designed to respond to real needs.
From the conscious use of digital tools in everyday life to skills that are useful for work and job searching, the pathway supports at least 15 women with a migrant background in navigating the digital world with greater confidence.
Digital skills are not addressed as an abstract topic, but as practical tools: for accessing information, organising daily life, communicating, searching for opportunities and strengthening autonomy.
A people-centred piloting phase
The piloting phase is also a space for listening and experimentation.
The group of at least 15 women with a migrant background will play an active role in the process: through dialogue and continuous feedback, the pathway will be adapted and improved, always keeping people and their experiences at the centre.
Soulfood is rooted in this belief: that skills are built together, starting from what people already know and experience every day.
A first step towards new opportunities
With the launch of the piloting phase, Soulfood takes an important step towards an idea of training that brings together cooking, skills and inclusion.
A pathway that does not separate knowing how to do from knowing how to be, and that recognises everyday life as a powerful space for personal and professional growth.
This is only the beginning, but the direction is clear: nurturing skills, autonomy and confidence, starting from what brings us together every day around a table.
