CONTEXT/BACKGROUND The project was born after a careful analysis of the changes in nowadays society due to the current humanitarian crisis and the displacement of millions of people fleeing from their countries in search of better life conditions. This analyses is supported by numerous sources at European and global level, such as the UNHCR and IOM, the Common Agenda for Integration, among many others. The project aims to collect good practices from partners from different EU countries, especially those at the forefront in this humanitarian crisis: Italy, Turkey as countries of first arrival and UK, Austria and Slovenia as countries that most of the refugees see as final destination. OBJECTIVES - to share best practices between organizations in Europe dealing refugees/migrants within hosting communities - to learn different methods of teaching to migrant groups - to acquire new ICT skills to use during the classes of migrants - to develop suggestions for local and educational authorities for the possible measures to prevent conflicts, xenophobia, radicalization and marginalization - training key figures working with refugees in intercultural learning and stimulate them to develop and adopt new techniques for the inclusion of migrants - promoting pedagogical approaches in dealing with challenges and opportunities in multicultural and pluralistic societies and empowering participants to work on reflective competences and tools for social change - Providing digital competencies to the participants - Promoting the importance of EU values, democracy and employability - Building bridges between schools, local communities and authorities ACTIVITIES - Creation of the web site and social media profile of the project - International training activities in partner countries - National workshops with local refugee centres and local authorities in each of the partner countries. METHODOLOGY -Helping people to build the intercultural awareness and communication skills they need to succeed, with a focus on practical results. -Acquiring new skills and establish an informal cooperation network stretching beyond national borders; -Develop a more positive and accepting attitude towards practical involvement in volunteer activities in the local community; -Encourage exchange among partners through practical exercises: presentations and analysis of cases studies; -Increase knowledge of and insight into how one’s own culture determines behavior, moving beyond “cultural awareness”; -To provide practitioners with an accessible explanatory framework for how culture impacts leadership/teaching/supervision style, teamwork, conflict perception, and problem-solving styles in cross-cultural communication. RESULTS, IMPACT AND LONG TERM BENEFITS To build up a network where different organisations working with the target group (schools, refugee centres, community centres, local authorities, etc.), within each participating country or from different countries, work together for: - sharing good practices with respect of the integration of new migrants - develop new pathways in order to find tools to face the challenges posed by the displacement of millions of people - Educating the target group on the opportunities and threats posed by the use of social media
“2 Become 1” project was an exchange of good practices project which was organised by Gebze Halk Egitimi Merkezi. There were five institutions from Turkey, Austria, England, and Italy that work on adult education and with migrants. The project was born after a careful analysis of the changes in nowadays society due to the current humanitarian crisis and the displacement of millions of people fleeing from their countries in search of better life conditions. This partnership created an opportunity to collect good practices from partners from different EU countries because it included partners from Italy, Turkey as countries of first arrival for refugees and UK, Austria as countries that most of the refugees see as final destination. Our primary priority was to improve the partner organisations and to provide high quality learning opportunities for migrants in both partner organisations and other relevant stakeholders. Beside this, we aimed to develop our educators' competences in migrant education and to help the integration of the migrants into our societies. In order to achieve these, we organised LTT meetings at each partner organisation. The meetings had activities related with the topic of each meeting and the expertise of each partner. Our trainings were planned as five days and during them, training sessions were held. Our trainings taught the participants different methods of teaching to migrant groups, new ICT skills to use during the classes of migrants and effective ways to integrate migrants into our societies. To get the good examples of each partner country, we organised trips to other institutions/companies that work with migrants. During both our project activities and institutional visits, the participants had a chance to meet the migrant and refugees in the hosting countries and talk with them about their story and experiences they had starting from their own countries to the place they are now. Especially, the field trip to the refugee camp on the Syria border in Hatay was a unique experience for the participants. We reached the results and the impacts of the project as planned. Thanks to the project activities, both participants and partner organisations improved themselves about teaching migrants and their social inclusion. Beside the participants, other educators at partner institutions benefited from our project because each partner organised a meeting in their organisations to share the experiences they got from the meetings and the participants shared their experiences with their colleagues. Also, we organised meetings with other relevant institutions and local press. These meetings contributed a lot to our dissemination activities because we were able to reach more people. As dissemination activities, we shared our activities and experiences on our project website, social media and EPALE platform. Especially, EPALE helped us reach a lot of people and institutions that work with migrants in Europe. This project had an important effect on participating institutions, teachers and other institutions around us and created a great awareness about migrants, their education and their adaptation to society. It became a starting point for all of us to provide more effective education to migrants and help them be included to our societies.