One of the most important need in this refugee crisis is to develop the capacity of individuals; help their social integration, develop competences, empowering them in conflict management, improving life conditions, literacy, accesing public services, IT skills, foreing langunage, intercultural learning,physico-social development. The need analysis of the target groups includes two dimensions, which are connected with each other. First is the need of the adult refugees. Second is the need of the educators, trainers and formators to respond the need of adults. That's why the project started first to make a need analysis of adult refugees in order to develop the proper training module which respond to learning needs of adults. The learners must be active in the learning process rather than being in a passive mode like a listener. Then the project Continue with training of Adult educators in order to develop the quality of learning and supporting services of NGO’s. 40 persons from 5 partner organisations will develop their competences. Each partner will support this project with reseach activities, preparing the training manuals, providing their technical assistance hosting trans nationalproject meetings and training activities. There will be 5 multiplier events, conferences and tool fairs in 2 years. The participants of the training activities will organise local implementation activities and reach to 300 adult refugees to use the new methodologies in adult aducation in order to help their learning activities in most important subjects for their development learning and employability. Thoruhg the multiplyier events the project will reach 275 people outside the project for the dissemination of the results and sharing the manual of the methodologies adn outputs of the project.
The project named Experiential Pedagogy Of The Oppressed For Adults, run between 31/12/2017 and 30/12/2019 within the partnership of NGO’s from five countries (Turkey, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and N. Macedonia) aimed to develop the capacities of the partner organizations and their adult educators, to improve the quality of learning programmes, tools, and methodologies by transnational cooperation and using innovative and persisting perfection in adult learning opportunities. Applying innovative and qualified ways to develop and improve their teaching skills helped the NGO workers and social workers to cope with difficulties in refugees’ educational issues better. Project started by running a transnational research to see the current situation of adult education in refugee context in Turkey, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and N. Macedonia. The research has been gathered in a report which was one of the intellectual outputs of the project. According to the findings of the research, a tailored, unique education program was developed for adult educators and implemented through two LLT activities which provided the adult educators a long-term training for trainers experience. During the first LLT activity in Turkey up-to-date works of David Kolb on experiential learning theory and on practical synthesis of Experiential Learning Theory and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed were delivered to the adult educators. Then these educators run training programs in their locals and practices experiential learning and pedagogy of the oppressed methodology. The second LLT program in North Macedonia aimed to extract new learning outputs from the local implementations of the adult educators by evaluating their practices, opening a peer learning space for enhancing the new learning and sharing the up-to-date developments of experiential learning theory. All the content developed, delivered and re-produced during the project was gathered in a Trainers’ Guide which was the second intellectual output of the project. Lastly all these outputs and outcomes were shared with stakeholders in the field of civil society, adult education and humanitarian works in all five countries via national multiplying events.