EIL - European Integration Languages Migration phenomena affect all countries in Europe. Current flows in particular are concentrated in the European countries of the Mediterranean as well as in those countries of the European continent which have experienced an older migration and which still today holds a "draw" for people coming from Africa and/or the Middle East. This phenomenon has a recognized complexity at different political levels: from local to national, up to European level. One of the essential needs for migrants is knowledge of the language of the host country, since the absence of this knowledge creates a situation of isolation, non-participation and withdrawal (communitarianism) and therefore a major difficulty in placing onself in the reality in which these adults live. The project has the following objectives: · to promote the social integration of migrants through an adapted teaching of the language of the host country, as one of the central links of integration · to create digital didactic materials for the learning of the so-called integration language, · to propose distance learning which can also be used in face-to-face teaching. · to create a free MOOC learning platform to host these learning materials. The partners committed to this project are: - Schaerbeek Women's House, a public service for the emancipation and citizenship of women - Euro_idea, expert in adult education and teaching French as a foreign language - ECRIMED, expert in second-language teaching - ARSAP, training centre for adults - KLYOLAB, design and production of digital products The beneficiaries of the project are migrants, training centres and trainers, associations active in hosting migrants and teaching the languages of the host country, local and regional authorities, the number of which is constantly evolving. The project unfolds over two years and includes the following steps: · project implementation · production of didactic materials for the teaching of LEI comprising three levels: language skills for functioning in everyday life, language skills for participation in citizenship, language skills for one’s own personal life goals as well as those of one’s children. · conducting participatory sociolinguistic workshops for migrants and production of video testimonials · design of an MOOC platform, which can be accessed remotely at no cost The project is inspired by a "results/outcome management" approach, which emphasises the co-construction of desired outcomes. The results must be defined and validated by the project stakeholders through a consensus building process. Through the MOOC platform, the teaching materials are intended to be: · always available online for free · visible and accessible without time constraints · downloadable in their entirety Immediate outcome: learning materials for LEI (European integration languages) / MOOC products online Medium-term impact – consequences of results: better integration of migrants through language skills (three LEI levels) Long-term impact: ° Better understanding by different ethnic groups of living together and co-existing side-by-side on the same territory. ° Overcoming certain stereotypes related to communitarianism ° Better integration of migrant populations ° Raised awareness at a political level of integration processes via the adoption of a participative approach
EIL - European Integration Languages As Europe is presently facing a strong migration context, we, the partners of the project EIL, have worked to improve the learning framework of the European languages by migrants. To help enhance this idea, we have relied on the experiences of each one: - Ecrimed', the language engineering firm, has developed learning material based on the notion of « integration language » (and not « foreign language » anymore), aiming an active participation of the new citizen, by following a 3 level process: language abilities for daily functioning, language abilities for participation in civic life, language abilities for a life project for oneself and one’s children. - Sociolinguistic workshops were organized based on the learning material of Ecrimed in Rennes, by ARSAP (training center for adults) in Pordenone, by the House of Women of Schaerbeek (municipal service devoted to the emancipation of women) and conducted by Euro-Idea (expert in adult education) in Brussels. The participants in Rennes were job seekers, their knowledge of French was satisfying but they lacked a useful network, likely to help them finding a job. A formal workshop was organized in Pordenone for migrants wishing a certificate of language skills. A second workshop rooted in an existing dynamic: a multicultural choir, with a repertoire of traditional songs from the home countries of the singers (including Italian songs). A third workshop was improvised at the request of a group of mothers from Bangladesh, who preferred to learn Italian and propose courses in Bengali to their children than to prepare a festive buffet to celebrate the end of the project. In Brussels the women could be valued in their culinary know how, and from the practice they learned the vocabulary of their recipes, read a shopping list and, little by little, organize gourmet and artistic events from A to Z. - The workshop participants were also actors in the project and they co-built new learning material to link the theoretical reflection and its implementation to two tools: the Audio-Psycho-Phonology and the transcultural biography. - Along the way Klyolab digitalized the learning material, being also in charge of the set-up of the MOOC on a distance learning platform, in order to allow free access to all the teachers, with no limit in time, available for complete download, aimed at all teachers of European languages, working in training centers and/or being active in the voluntary sector of welcoming migrants. We have achieved all our short term goals: from the creation of learning material to their on-line availability on a distance learning platform, through a MOOC with free access to all and available in its entirety without time limit, as well as the organization of several sociolinguistic participatory workshops where the participants have played the role of their own integration (individual learning and socialization). The project ended with the putting on line of the MOOC, and, since then, the number of subscribers is steadily increasing. This leads us to think that our experiences are already being read, listened to, tested and reused in different situations than ours, and to value that the midterm impact (an improved integration through the learning of EIL) will only increase with time. The work that was done with the 110 migrants has led to extremely positive results: all have achieved their own objectives: improve language skills, find a skills training or a job, come out of isolation, take part in a rewarding project, meet other cultures, accept new standards in their home country… Furthermore, the network developed through this project EIL has allowed us to develop, each of us, a welcome “chain” to help integration, for we have brought together professionals of the voluntary sector, the working world, the social and public sector as well as the politicians, in order to best suit the needs and the proposals of the migrants. We are also very proud to have brought together migrants of all origins and indigenous peoples, because we know from experience that the best chance to be able to live together, is to try it out. We believe that through this project we have touched 1500 people.