Strategic Partnership in Adult Migrant Education: Perspectives from Mediterranean and Baltic Sea Regions (MEDBALT ) Diversity Development Group (Lithuania) is the project coordinator; Partner organizations: Uninersidad de Salamanca (Spain), Tamat Centro Studi Formazione e Ricerca (Italy), Centre for Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology LTD (Cyprus), Koperazzjoni Internazzjonali (Malta), Fundacja Osrodek Badan nad Migracjami (Poland) Length of the project: 36 months (01 01 2015 – 31 12 2017) The aim of the MEDBALT project is to prepare a methodology for the adult migrants education in Lithuania based on good practices. Objectives: 1) each partner organization has to develop a case study on the adult migrants integration and education in each in the project participating country; 2) each partner organization has to prepare political recommendations in the field of integration of the migrants, including education; 3) to organize the final conference of the project; Existing situation in Lithuania presupposed that there is no methodology for the integration and education of the adult migrants. The necessity and need of such methodology is based on these aspects: 1) adaptive and special education programmes/packets of tools based on a detailed methodology are needed for migrants education (special target group which has special needs); 2) starting to form a coherent integration policy and prepare a strategic document of migrant integration, as well as establishing an integration infrastructure, creation of such a methodology is the key instrument for the implementation of all integration programmes. Prepared methodology will directly complement the implementation of the strategic document of the integration policy forming packets of tools of integration of migrants and establishing education infrastructure on the local, national and international levels, as well as developing the inter-sectoral (governmental and non-governmental) cooperation and adopting the good practice for the Lithuanian case. Key activities organized in the project: 1) study and overtaking the good practice visits; 2) analyses of the methodology of adult education and integration programmes (case study of each in the project participating organization); 3) preparation of the education of adult migrants for Lithuania; 4) recommendations for the programmes and infrustructure for the integration of adult migrants (from each in the project participating organization); 5) final project conference. All these activities are inter-related and coherent, coming one from another and will be coordinated by DDG as the applicant of the project. In the preparation phase the project coordinating institution will make the preparational work defining common guidelines, structure, methodology for all partner organizations for the creation of each countries case studies and during the visits will introduce to each organization. There will be observation of good practise in each country during the visits (practise of integration and education of migrants, organization, infrustructure, etc.). To all these visits will go three experts from DDG and the timetable of the visits will be structured in accordance with the logic of regional cooperation: countries of the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea regions. During the time of the second activity will be developed case studies which will open the regional and comparative perspective and will allow the over taking of the good practice, as well as will be the background for the preparation of the Lithuania's case and political recommendations. The third activity, the development of the methodology of adult migrant education, will be precisely for Lithuania after taking over the good practice in both theoretical and practical levels The fourth activity will allow each organization to provide political recommendations aiming to improve the legal reglamentation of adult migrant integration and specific education programmes at both local and national levels. The final project conference in which will take part all the participating organizations and policy makers, implementators from the governmental and non-governmental organizations, migrants and their organizations, experts in the field of migration and all the interested persons. The main aim of the conference is to present the publication in which will be published all the case studies, methodology of the adult migrant education for Lithuania and political recommendations. Overall, the results of the project can be distinguished following: 1) the main level of the execution of the project is inter-regional cooperation in the EU level will provide the perspective in the field of migration education from various European regions. 2) This european level through the partner organizations activities (case studies and political recommendations) will have an impact on the national level. 3) monitoring, sharing, overtaking and ad
Last two decades mark a period of intense international migration in Europe, which brought forth various challenges for national and international state policies and called for societies to deal with intercultural coexistence. At the same time as the western European countries began to critically evaluate their immigration and migrant integration policies, the ‘new’ EU member states confronted the challenges of creating migration regulations and strategies for migrant integration, where access to education is considered as one of migrants’ basic needs. From previous researches and studies project coordinator had identified main gaps both in migration / migrant integration and education fields. In migration researches were there no significant findings regarding adult migrant education and specially methods or methodology. And vice versa, in the education studies there was a lack of migrants’ identification as a target group. It was expected that MEDBALT project will complement the lack of knowledge regarding adult migrant education and will introduce cross-cutting approach merging migration and education fields. An aim of the project Strategic Partnership in Adult Migrant Education: Perspectives from Mediterranean and Baltic Sea Regions (MEDBALT) was to develop an Adult Migrant Education Methodology based on good practices implemented in each participating country. Objectives of the MEDBALT project: • to develop a case studies on adult migrant education programmes and migrant integration policies of each participating country; • to develop Recommendations for implementation of adult migrant integration programmes • to organize Final Conference and present results of the project. The consortium consisted of 6 partners from 6 European countries, covering a wide range of expertise and experience related to the scope and the aims of the MEDBALT, having as well a Pan-European outreach in their activities. Partners came from a variety of geographical (Baltic and Mediterranean regions), educational, migration and professional backgrounds, and this ensured the successful implementation of cross-cutting and interdisciplinary project. Project coordinator: Diversity Development Group (Lithuania); Partner organisations: Uninersidad de Salamanca (Spain), Tamat Centro Studi Formazione e Ricerca (Italy), Centre for Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology LTD (Cyprus), Koperazzjoni Internazzjonali (Malta), Fundacja Osrodek Badan nad Migracjami (Poland). Main activities organized by the project: • Project management and implementation • Development of Intellectual Outputs (IO1: Analysis of adult migrant education programmes and migrant integration policies, IO2: Adult Migrant Education Methodology; IO3: Recommendations for implementation of adult migrant integration programmes) • Dissemination activities • Quality Assurance and Evaluation activities In order to secure exploitation and sustainability of the project outcomes during and after the life-cycle of the project, dissemination targeted relevant stakeholders and exploitation strategy was set. The sustainability of the project was guaranteed by the fact that the stakeholders will continue to use MEDBALT products for subsequent years for adult migrant education across different settings. The project followed a linear, rather than a cyclical route, as findings and conclusions from previous Outputs were used to develop the further output. The first step included a Case Studies synthesis of research findings in order to arrive at a general approach and philosophy, provide good practices and comparability of participating countries in education and integration fields. Second step included stakeholders and presented external evaluation model applied to the development of Adult Migrant Education Methodology. Some parts of this output were based on findings from case studies. Final findings and conclusions from first two Intellectual Outputs were used to develop third output and provided regional and European perspective. Direct target groups of the project are education institutions and organizations working with migrants (providing services) in the participating countries (national level) and EU (European level). Indirect project target group covers adult migrants who will be benefited indirectly, i.e. adult migrants will receive better service in the education field. Relevant stakeholders: National and European academic community (especially those specializing in applied research on migration, education and integration); Regional and national NGOs (especially those specializing in education and migration activities and social integration of migrants); Institutions’ managers, policy makers and educational authorities, public institutions at the local and national level. MEDBALT made all developed outputs available to the public, in digital form freely accessible through the Internet under open licenses.