DIME: "Development of a skills reference framework and of training modules to promote the Inclusion of Migrants to Europe" The project DIME is submitted by 6 partners from 4 Mediterranean countries (Spain, France, Greece and Italy) with different approaches and experiences of migration, all engaged in the training and inclusion a target group of non-EU migrants, mainly coming from North African countries: - Association Internationale de Formation et de Recherche en Instruction Spécialisée, Santé, Social, AIFRISSS (FR) - Centro Italiano Opere Salesiane Femminili - CIOSF/FP (IT) - Etairia Psychokinonikon Draseon - EPSYDRA (GR) - Universidad de HUELVA (ES) - Universidad de JAÉN (ES) - INstitut SUPérieur de Formation Permanente - INSUP (FR), coordinator. Migration issues and social cohesion are a priority for the Council of Europe, which defines social cohesion as "the ability of a society to ensure the well-being of all its members, minimizing disparities and avoiding polarization ". The influence of immigration on social cohesion is one of the major challenges for the future of Europe and one of the priorities of the European Union. However, Eurostat data show that the unemployment rate among migrants is about 21% against 10% for Member States natives. Such a situation is taking place observed in the specific context of the economic crisis and the rise of populism and xenophobia in a growing number of EU member states, where migrants are being singled out. As a consequence, many of them are exposed to exclusion from employment, housing, healthcare and education. They face many barriers that prevent them from being integrated in the host societies. For the consortium, improving the availability of education and training for the migrants is one of the cornerstones to favour their integration and promote social cohesion. The project consortium offers to: - Develop a skills reference framework of formal and non-formal skills required for the inclusion of migrants - Develop and implement modules, methods and interactive pedagogical tools centred on learning processes, transversality and a set of processes meant to facilitate their socio-cultural and economic integration. These two major issues will be addressed through different objectives and steps: - Analysis, comparison and evaluation of different training methodologies in the partner countries in order to identify the most effective parameters - Identification of cultural, linguistic, social and professional barriers in the training courses provided - Building of course content, methods and pedagogical tools to facilitate successful integration - Checking of their relevance with the target group as part of an experimentation - Ensuring transfer and dissemination in European countries and promotion in the migrants’ countries of origin. The consortium consists of universities, training and vocational guidance institutions. This combination of research and action is meant to encourage the production of a reference framework and training modules based on methodological approaches for their quality, but also on realities. The consortium will also involve local partnerships, institutions, policy makers and representatives of vocational guidance and employment services so as to construct the most appropriate response. The expected final impact is the recognition of the target group and its inclusion in a proactive and positive approach to social, cultural and professional inclusion. The expected results are manifold: - At the level of the target group: To end up with social isolation due to precariousness To lift barriers (health, housing, cultural, linguistic…) to social and professional integration To generate links between the participants and local stakeholders, social and community organisations To consider a closer relationship with the working environment by identifying formal and informal skills acquired and those to be developed for permanent integration in the host country. - At the level of social and professional integration stakeholders: To provide trainers with contents, methods and innovative educational tools to diversify the learning process To harmonise training practices at European and national levels To create an operational procedure transferable to other European countries and to be disseminated in the migrants’ countries of origin. To provide training organizations with procedures transferable to other lines of action in favour of disadvantaged groups. The results will be widely disseminated via a website dedicated to the project and will be presented at the closing seminar in 2018.
DIME : Developing a competence framework and training modules to promote the migrants’ inclusion to Europe. The project gathers 6 partners from 4 Mediterranean coutries (Spain, France, Greece, Italy) with different approaches and experiences of migration, all engaged in the training and inclusion of non EU-migrants. - Association Internationale de Formation et de Recherche en Instruction Spécialisée, Santé, Social - AIFRISSS (FR) - Centro Italiano Opere Salesiane Femminili - CIOSF/FP (IT) - KINONIKES SINETERISTIKES DRASTIRIOTITES EFPATHON OMADON – K.S.D.E.O (GR) - Universidad de HUELVA (ES) - Universidad de JAÉN (ES) - INstitut SUPérieur de Formation Permanente - INSUP (FR), coordinateur For the consortium, improving the availability of education and training for the migrants is one of the cornerstones to favour their integration and promote social cohesion. Thus, they have developed : -Two reports : Comparative analysis of the migrants’ hosting and inclusion policies in the partner states (Spain, France, Greece, Italy) to identify the barriers to inclusion ; Analysis of existing training program practices and identification of good practices in each of the countries. -A framework of competences, acquired in a formal and non-formal setting, necessary for the social and professional inclusion of migrant people. It is conceived as a pedagogical guide for the migrants’ trainers. It includes 5 blocks of competences, methods and new pedagogical tools based on the learning process, transversality, a set of processes to facilitate inclusion. Five blocks of competences have been created : Language proficiency, Mathematical and digital competences, Intercultural competences, Social and civic competences, Socio-professional and entrepreneurship competences. Each category is based on knowledge (expertise), know-how (skills) and attitudes. -A training modules set (21), to be used in connection with the competences framework, including the 5 skills blocks. The modules aim at developing the competences indicated in the competence framework. They have been elaborated for professionals or volunteers wishing to implement training for migrants. The innovation lies in : -The consortium composition : 4 mediterranean countries, with different approaches of migration, where the present situation requires adapted pedagogical responses ; the combination between research and players on the ground to cross their approaches and local stakeholders, institutions, policy makers, vocational guidance organisations, companies and migrants to build an appropriate reponse. -The specificity of the intellectual outputs : Migrants’ training is often based on a linguistic approach and to a lesser extent on a socio-professional one. Yet it is necessary to have a global approach of the persons that is to say to take into consideration the whole barriers and issues to facilitate their socio professional inclusion. Dime took the initiative to determine 5 transversal competences blocks of which one is dedicated to interculturality to allow the migrants to be considered in their entirety and life path. -The training adaptation to the evolution of the migration types : the partners experienced one of the most important migratory crises that Europe has ever known. Because of the civil wars especially in Syria, of the lybian conflict, of troubles and persecutions in some countries, the migratory flows have consistently grown. The partners had to face the refugee public in particular (who is often better trained) and had to adapt the intellectual outputs to response to the variety of migrant profiles. The final impact is a recognition of the migrant publics and their involvement in a proactive and positive approach to social, cultural and professional inclusion. The main results are manifold At the level of the migrant public : - To end up with social isolation due to precariousness they often live. - To lift barriers to socio- professional inclusion - To generate links between the participants and local stakeholders, community organisations - To consider a closer relationship with the working environment by identifying competences acquired and those to be developed. At the level of actors in the field of social and labour market integration : - To provide trainers with contents, methods and innovative educational tools to diversify the learning process - To harmonise training practices - To provide training organisations with procedures transferable to other lines of actions in favour of disadvantaged groups. Intellectual outputs to be downloaded on : https://www.projetdime.eu