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Can Do Refugees 2.0.

2018-1-DE02-KA204-0052112018Strategic Partnerships for adult educationfinalized
Countries: DE|FR|EL|EG|ES · Grant: €311,656
Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learningIntegration of refugeesInclusion - equity

Project summary

The aim of the project "Can Do Refugees 2.0." is to professionalize and to empower people working with refugees on a professional and voluntary basis. Therefore the project combines the experience of practitioners in NGO (VIA Bayern (Germany), Progestión (Spain), Euro Circle (France)) and the knowledge of universities (University of Thessaly (Greece), American University of Cairo (Egypt)). This consortium also reflects the route of refugees coming to Europe, often coming from Arabic speaking countries, using Egypt as a transit country and then coming through the Balkan route (Greece) or the Mediterranean route (Spain) to the destination countries France and Germany. The project will be present itself on a website and it's actual milestones on face book. Core element of the projects are the trainings (LTTAs) in which the target group, people working with refugee,s are professionalized and empowered. In these trainings innovative methods are used like inter-cultural learning with improvisational theater, democracy learning, trauma based pedagogy, approaches which combine Islam and feminism, methods in overcoming isamophobia, antisemitism, etc. Participatory and process-oriented elements will be includes in all sessions. The LTTAs will be accompanied by a blog for the participants. To ensure a realistic view on the needs of refugees and to be able to spread this realist view a film about these need will be produced (IO 1). And to ensure that this view will not be superficial this film will be produced with the help of inter-cultural improvisational theater. The methods and approaches of the LTTAs will be collected and translated to be able to provide them to a broader audience in all partner countries (IO 2). The project will be accompanied by a process-oriented evalaution itself. But in the same time people who attend this process will be professionalized to implement this process oriented evaluation process in their countries as well. Therefore this method will be written down as a hands-on tool (IO 3) and translated in all languages of the partner countries. The method used in the film and in the LTTAs inter-cultural improvisation theater will be published as a brochure in a partner country`s languages (IO 4). To ensure a good cooperation between the partners five TPMs will be held in each partner country. Focus of the last half year will be the dissemination of the project results in 20 ME in each partner country.

Final report summary

The aim of the project "Can Do Refugees 2.0." was to professionalize and to empower people working with refugees on a professional and voluntary basis. Therefore the project combined the experience of practitioners in NGO (VIA Bayern (Germany), Progestión (Spain), Euro Circle (France)) and the knowledge of universities (University of Thessaly (Greece), American University of Cairo (Egypt)). This consortium also reflected the route of refugees coming to Europe, often coming from Arabic speaking countries, using Egypt as a transit country and then coming through the Balkan route (Greece) or the Mediterranean route (Spain) to the destination countries France and Germany. The project presents itself on a website and it's actual milestones on face book as well as on a blog. Core element of the projects were the trainings (LTTAs in Spain and France) in which the target group, people working with refugees were professionalized and empowered. In these trainings innovative methods were used like inter-cultural learning with improvisational theater, democracy learning, trauma based pedagogy, approaches which combine Islam and feminism, methods in overcoming isamophobia, antisemitism, etc. Participatory and process-oriented elements were included in all sessions. The LTTAs were accompanied by a blog for the participants. To ensure a realistic view on the needs of refugees and to be able to spread this realist view a film about these need was produced with meetings with refugees in Spain, France an Greece (IO 1). And to ensure that this view will not be superficial, this film was produced with the help of arts and inter-cultural improvisational theater. The methods and approaches of the LTTAs were collected and translated to be able to provide them to a broader audience in all partner countries (IO 2). Additionally a broshure was published wich presents the Culturatorium approach, combining improv theater with intercultural trainings. This approach was used in all LTTAs and film workshops and partners were asking for material to be able to transfer it to multipliers. To ensure a good cooperation between the partners three face to face TPMs were held (one in Spain, one in France and one in Greece) and one hybrid TPM in Spain and in Greece. Focus of the last half year was the dissemination of the project results in ME in each partner country.

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