REFUGEE INCLUSION MOVES EUROPE / RIME is a European project aimed at developing the skills of adults working to support and include refugees. RIME was born from the creation of the refugee guide, in France, produced for and WITH refugees living in the Bordeaux metropolitan area. This simple and illustrated refugee guide is intended to be very accessible to refugees. It presents their rights and their view of their status. Its success has been such that many European organisations have turned to their creators to benefit from their expertise and create guides adapted to other legal, social, economic and political environments in Europe. The COS Alexandre Glasberg Foundation has approached these European partners to develop with them tools adapted to the inclusion of refugees in Europe. The project is part of a context of tightening national policies towards refugees. In a context of rising nationalism, xenophobia and glottophobia, the partners consider that the tools, methodologies and processes of inclusion are currently too sectoralized and do not sufficiently promote the participation of refugees in the very creation of these tools. Thus, the partners, inspired by the participatory methodologies they know, propose to carry out: - A methodological matrix for the creation of a refugee guide that can be adapted in all European countries - A comic strip database designed to promote learning pedagogy for refugees and to support the expression of allophone refugees or those who speak few national languages. - Two certified training courses dedicated to the development of mentoring in order to consolidate inclusion processes in urban and rural areas. The participation of migrants in the development of educational tools is at the heart of our project. Partners are foundations active in adult education, advisory bodies, universities, adult education centres, social and vocational integration centres and NGOs. They are located in France, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Malta. The RIME project will therefore focus on developing the skills of trainers working with refugees by supporting their ability to - develop their capacity to integrate cross-sectoral integration processes - Train mentors It also aims to involve refugees in the creation of the necessary tools to promote their integration. The RIME project proposes - 4 intellectual productions - 1 transmedia matrix to create the refugee guide in each European country - 1 database of educational drawings dedicated to facilitating communication between refugees and non-refugees. - 1 training course with certificates for the project's target audiences (trainers and educators) - 2 learning activities - 3 dissemination events (France, Italy, Greece) These activities will bring together the following participants - Refugees - Recognized European experts in adult education (mediators, writers, artists, trainers, social inclusion specialists, education, etc.) - Managers of public and private companies active in the social, educational, cultural and entrepreneurial sector - Specialists in digital tools for the enhancement of productions - Heads of local authorities responsible for refugee integration issues The relevance of the RIME project is based on a formal and non-formal education methodology that promotes: - The development of content based on the needs of the final beneficiaries of the project (refugees) and concrete experiences in the territories - Cross-fertilization of expertise: culture, social, entrepreneurship - The creation of certified mentoring training programs The results and impacts of the RIME project will act at all levels, from local to international, but will focus on the certification and skills development of the final beneficiaries, the Refugees. The RIME project provides tools for: - Strengthen the skills of people working with these audiences. - Enhance the life skills and know-how of refugees and turn them into mentoring and training skills - Facilitate the participation of refugees in events and mechanisms set up in communities for social, cultural and economic inclusion purposes. These impacts will be disseminated through networks in the educational, social, cultural and social economy sectors, local authorities, European and global networks for the defence of refugee rights.
RIME has focused on developing the skills of those working on refugee inclusion and support by supporting their ability to - Integrate cross-sectoral integration processes - Train mentors/peer-helpers To support the participation of refugees in their learning processes In order to do this, RIME recommends developing the capacity to identify the refugees' knowledge (how to be and what to do) before trying to turn it into skills. RIME wants to show that refugees have interesting and inspiring knowledge for our territories. The ambition is to make these people known not for what they are not (Europeans), but by valuing and showing who they are, and what they have to teach us and to teach their peers. The relevance of RIME is based on a methodology of formal and non-formal education that promotes - The development of contents based on the needs of the final beneficiaries (refugees) and concrete experiences in the territories - The cross-fertilisation of expertise: cultural, social, entrepreneurial - The creation of training courses leading to certification in mentoring/peer-help
The RIME project takes place in a context of hardening national policies towards refugees, with a parallel rise in nationalism, xenophobia and glottophobia. It was born from the creation of the Guide du Réfugié sur la métropole bordelaise (Refugee Guide for the Bordeaux Metropolis), produced for and with refugees. This guide is simple, illustrated and as accessible as possible to these groups. It lists the rights of refugees in France and also their point of view on inclusion. It has been so successful that many European organisations have turned to its creators to benefit from their know-how. The COS Foundation therefore approached its European partners to develop with them tools adapted to the inclusion of refugees in Europe. All of them consider that the tools, methodologies and processes for inclusion are currently too sector-based and do not encourage enough the participation of refugees in the creation of these tools. Gathered around the COS Foundation, the European partners believe that refugees unite us and lead us to reflect on the inclusive competences of each society, to reinforce them thanks to the crossed views of the refugees and the civil society of the host country.