Experts from associations and organizations working with immigrant children often must develop intervention strategies, regarding the effective social inclusion, which provide above all for a strong commitment in the field of non-formal language training. Immigrant children may, exclusively for socio-cultural reasons, be considered individuals with Special Educational Needs. Therefore, "European Network for Social Inclusion" project aims to build on the good practices employed in education with compensatory tools and to transfer them in non-formal language training for immigrant children. Therefore, the aim is to compare the methods adopted in the different partner countries in order to develop a language learning model that can be used regardless of the country of the children. Specific Objectives: • Promoting the exchange of best practices among social workers in the field of non-formal language training of immigrant children. • Promoting the recognition of non-formal and informal learning in the adult education field. • Enhancing the international dimension of activities in the adult education field. • Enhancing the role of parents and educators in no formal sector and organizations such as support structures for social inclusion of children and teenagers with special educational needs. Activities: • No. 2 short-term joint staff training event. The recipients are educators of non-formal organizations • No. 2 local education recreational activities where experiencing the model developed during the transnational non-formal education • No. 5 transnational partner meetings. The issues of the meetings will be: project management and coordination at all stages of implementation, evaluation of activities, economic reports, risk solution
The experts of associations and organizations who work with immigrant children often have to develop intervention strategies, on an effective social inclusion, which mainly involve a strong commitment in the field of non-formal language training. Immigrant children, exclusively for socio-cultural reasons, can be considered individuals with special educational needs. The main objective of “European Network for Social Inclusion - ENSI" project was to compare the methods adopted in the different partner countries in order to develop a language learning model that can be used independently of the children's country. Specific Objectives: • Promoting the exchange of best practices among social workers in the field of non-formal language training of immigrant children. • Promoting the recognition of non-formal and informal learning in the adult education field. • Enhancing the international dimension of activities in the adult education field. • Enhancing the role of parents and educators in no formal sector and organizations such as support structures for social inclusion of children and teenagers with special educational needs. The partnership was involved in a national research on the issue of learning difficulties and social inclusion of children and adolescents with learning difficulties. The analysis covered the legislative, methodological, pedagogical and socio-educational aspects with reference to the activities of each partner concerning the experiences with children and adolescents with BES. The first important moment of comparison of the project was the first Short-term joint staff training event "(TC1), held in Palermo (Italy) which involved 33 experts, educators, social workers, coming from the partner countries who shared through a informal methodology the most significant best practices adopted in each country. This comparison was followed by an implementation phase in each partner country of the best practice chosen by each partner group, the results of which were shared during the second "Short-term joint staff training event" (TC2), in which 33 participants transferred their experiences and feedback. At the end of the project, "International Center of Cultures UBUNTU" partner took care of the final draft of the Research Handbook, which collected the final results of the activities, of the experiences achieved during the project. During all the lifecycle of the project, the partnership promoted the activities and results through 18 dissemination seminars in the partner countries which reached about 400 people. ENSI project involved n. 6 organizations, from 5 european countries: People Help the People (Italia) - Applicant Asociacion Amigos de Europa (Spagna) Asociatia Fluturele Visator (Romania) EURO-training (Bulgaria) Fundacja Family Center (Polonia) Centro Internazionale delle Culture UBUNTU (Italia).