Refugees crisis and other non EU migration are challenges that should be tackled urgently in Europe. Besides the humanitary aid ( need for food, housing and basic goods for refugees and migrant families and young people) , it is urgent to react in providing with basic skills and the first elements to a smooth integration in their EU receiving countries.Experience has shown in recent years that massive migration and refugees exodus has a big impact in receiving countries, leading to difficult integration and undesired side effects such as xenophobia from local population. Xenophobia, social exclusion, discrimination and discontent with sudden awakening from the “European dream” can cause marginalization and radicalization of migrants and their families with subsequent undesired side effects such as the terrorists attacks in Paris and recently in Brussels.The Paris declaration, adopted at the Informal Meeting of the EU Education Ministers in Paris on 17 March 2015, gave the strong signal that, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, Ministers wanted to boost EU-level cooperation in the acquisition of social, civic and intercultural competences, by promoting fundamental rights, social inclusion and non-discrimination, intercultural dialogue in all forms of learning. Promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education is one of EU priorities nowaday at ET2020. Many NGOs have a great deal of expertise in addressing these issues by providing non-formal education where the government lacks the capacity to do so, and are the relevant stakeholder that can be key to swiftly impact on refugees and migrants target groups for a better integration. Spain and Italy are EU countries with EU external border with a long experience in facing massive legal and irregular migration from non EU and developing countries. How many in these flows are irregular labour migrants and how many are refugees? It is difficult to know. Refugee crisis has expanded the number of countries facing a really demanding challenge of receiving a big number of refugees and other migrants such as Germany and UK. Many best practices from the non formal and basic adult education provided by NGOs, charity organizations and social services at local governments are developed in different countries, but they are disperse and non complete, providing with some training directed towards migrant and refugees target groups, while there is not a well structured teachers or educators training or train the trainers in this field. In this sense, a transnational EU project bring together all the expertise and innovation from Italy, Spain, Germany and UK, that has been developed in formal and non formal education contexts, developing handbook with teaching techniques and training materials for teachers of adult migrants and refugees. This is where European added value can put together all the different and disperse best practices in Europe for the benefit of educators, teachers and trainers in adult training and other relevant organizations over all Europe: NGOs, social services at local administration, charity organizations.The products will be produced under the development of 2 Intellectual Outputs: IO1 and IO 2, adressed to trainers and educators and to migrants and refugees respectively.1) Acting on Adult training professionals in formal and non formal training and professionals acting in an informal training of migrants and refugees. Providing the right skills, training techniques, and making training resources available.The handbook for educators will contain teaching techniques useful in more formal and non formal situations, as well as techniques to be used in more informal contexts. The whole set of techniques must follow the principles of respect, inclusion and mutual tolerance.2) Acting on refugees and migrants themselves. Providing knowledge and resources for a better understanding of life and values in Europe and in receiving country. This will make their new life in the new country easier, more pleasant, more inclusive and with a better access to labour market.Project downloadable training materials for adult educators and for migrant and refugees learners will be free accessible form project website in easy and ready to use Pdf files. Pdfs will be available in English, German, Italian, Spanish and Catalan.At least 100 adult educators and relevant stakeholders will take part in face to face project activities. It is expected that at least 600 people can take part in the project in different ways.Accelerating the process of a better understanding of refugees and migrants of receiving countries culture, European citizenship rights and duties and European culture at workplace, will have a very positive impact on refugees and migrants with a better understanding and integration, enhancing their comfort and possibilities of a new working and prosperous life at receiving country.
Mass migration and the exodus of refugees has a great impact on receiving countries, leading to difficult integration and unwanted side effects such as xenophobia of the local population. Xenophobia, social exclusion, discrimination and discontent with the sudden awakening of the "European dream" can cause the marginalization and radicalization of migrants and their families with unwanted side effects, such as terrorist attacks. The Paris Declaration, promoted cooperation at the EU level and promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education is one of the EU's priorities today in the ET2020. The New start project "EUROPEAN CULTURE AND VALUES TRAINING FOR A SMOOTH INTEGRATION OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES" emerged to respond to the training needs of refugees and migrants in the field of integration in their host countries. Numerous actions were being carried out in a dispersed manner in terms of citizenship education for migrants in various European countries, but there were no guidelines and examples of training materials for migrants and refugees working on more psychological aspects of attitude, expectations, pre-conceptions , prejudices and discrimination and that in addition ARE agglutinated in a single publication oriented to the professionals. The New Start project has developed a handbook for the trainer of migrants and adults refugees with orientations, modules and training units with examples of exercises to be carried out in the context of a class in order to acquire values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination based on the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights. The training materials are structured around five thematic areas: rights and duties, integration, European culture, gender equality and employment. The proposed training techniques include methodologies used in group dynamics of psychology or case studies used by business schools and transferred in an innovative way to the field of adult migrant and refugee training. They are intended to change the perceptions and attitudes of migrants and refugees for a better acceptance of inter-culturality, a better alignment of expectations, the dissolution of the concept of "European Dream" in a gradual manner and a better adaptation to the culture, habits and values of the recipient European countries as prevention of conflicts, to achieve a better coexistence and integration to the host countries. The New Start project has also developed training materials for migrants and refugees that address aspects of habits, regulations, rights and duties, the procedure for obtaining legal residence or refugee status, and preparation for cultural shock on issues such as gender equality, homosexuality, to improve their socialization and integration as advice and Welcome Guide. The training materials "Adult educator handbook for European training of migrants and refugees", "Tips to learn a new start in a new country" and the "Welcome guide for migrants and refugees" are published in five languages: English, German , Italian, Spanish and Catalan and are published and ready for download by means of free licenses on the project website: http://www.acitassoc.org/new-start/ (ES), http://www.acitassoc.org/new-start/new-start-english/ (EN), http: //www.acitassoc. org / new-start / new-start-deutsch / (DE), http://www.acitassoc.org/new-start/new-start-italiano/ (IT), http://www.acitassoc.org/ new-start / new-start-català / (CAT). The project has been developed between November 2016 and February 2019, through 4 transnational face-to-face meetings and 7 Skype conferences where the partners have worked together to develop the training materials and manage the project. It has been achieved that 129 adult trainers and professionals providing guidance to migrants and refugees attended 4 multiplier events and were trained in the use of the products developed in this project. 14,736 dissemination impacts have been achieved in social networks, web pages, emailing, face-to-face meetings through activities carried out by the consortium in the participating countries. Various publications have also been made in Epale platform to share the results of the project with a potential impact of 50,000 subscribers across Europe. The project partners are already using these training materials in their training courses and in the orientation of migrants and the majority of those attending the multiplier events NGOs social services of town halls, adult training centers, and other organizations for the integration of emigrants, have expressed their satisfaction and intention of use it in their job.