Since the expansion of the EU from 15 Member States in 2004 the level of migration from former Soviet bloc countries to more established Member States has been a continuing feature of EU population movements. Large numbers of economic migrants from most of the 13 new Member States have moved west in search of employment and the lure of what many considered would be a better quality of life. As a result of events in North Africa Europe has experienced a significant influx of refugees and asylum seekers hoping to build a new life away from their country of origin. In 2016, the number of people living in the EU28 who had been born outside of the EU was just over 36 million (Eurostat). Within the growing migrant numbers many young people are being targeted by extremists seeking to mobilize and radicalize marginalized sub-sets of the migrant community. The integration of these young migrant populations into host society is a priority objective in all Member States. There is a considerable shortage of specialist migrant integration training materials available to front-line staff in adult and community education organisations. There is also a real need for in-service training to build the skill sets of adult and community educators. The EXEMPLAR project consortium propose to develop the following intellectual outputs: IO1 - a bespoke Integration Leaders training curriculum addressed to migrant youth that supports the acquisition of key civic and social competences essential to their new role as leaders of integration in their communities; IO2 - a toolbox of 12 learning resources that support the acquisition of key civic and social competences to support the integration activities of the migrant youth who complete the Integration Leaders training; IO3 - an in-service training programme for front-line adult and community educators and those working in migrant support organisations to assist them in delivering the Integration Leaders curriculum; IO4 - a versatile e-learning portal that supports learning in a range of environments through readily available fixed and mobile media devices A minimum of 10 front-line adult and community educators and migrant support staff working in specialist organisations will complete the in-service training in each partner country. A minimum of 10 young migrants will complete the Integration Leaders curriculum in each partner country. Each young migrant who completes the training will establish a micro-network of young migrants and support their integration into their new host community.
Large numbers of economic migrants from most of the 13 new Member States have moved west in search of employment and the lure of what many considered would be a better quality of life. As a result of events in North Africa Europe has experienced a significant influx of refugees and asylum seekers hoping to build a new life away from their country of origin. In 2016, the number of people living in the EU28 who had been born outside of the EU was just over 36 million (Eurostat). Within the growing migrant numbers many young people are being targeted by extremists seeking to mobilize and radicalize marginalized sub-sets of the migrant community. The integration of these young migrant populations into host society is a priority objective in all Member States. There is a considerable shortage of specialist migrant integration training materials available to front-line staff in adult and community education organisations. There is also a real need for in-service training to build the skill sets of adult and community educators. The EXEMPLAR project consortium developed the following intellectual outputs: IO1 - a bespoke Integration Leaders training curriculum addressed to migrant youth that supports the acquisition of key civic and social competences essential to their new role as leaders of integration in their communities; IO2 - a toolbox of 12 learning resources that support the acquisition of key civic and social competences to support the integration activities of the migrant youth who complete the Integration Leaders training; IO3 - an in-service training programme for front-line adult and community educators and those working in migrant support organisations to assist them in delivering the Integration Leaders curriculum; IO4 - a versatile e-learning portal that supports learning in a range of environments through readily available fixed and mobile media devices Around 10 front-line adult and community educators and migrant support staff working in specialist organisations completed the in-service training in each partner country. A minimum of 10 young migrants completed the Integration Leaders curriculum in each partner country. Each young migrant who completed the training established a micro-network of young migrants and support their integration into their new host community. Due to the pandemic though, it was hard to implement the pilot trainings of IO1 and IO3 face-to-face and find also the expected number of participants. This was a great challenge for all partners to achieve it. Therefore a one-year extension was given and some of the partners managed to implement the pilot trainings online due to the strict safety measures against COVID-19. Despite though the difficulties that we encountered, we managed to fulfill the objectives of the project, produce a good quality of outputs that can be used by migrant support workers, adult educators and also migrants.