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Front line: Understanding migration and building cohesive societies

2019-1-IT02-KA104-0616952019Adult education staff mobilityfinalized
Countries: IT · Grant: €51,405.98
New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training coursesIntegration of refugeesMigrants' issues

Objectives

The main objectives were the following: - Providing an adequate training to the staff of the consortium members in their daily work with migrants. - Developing new educational skills and methodologies in the adult education sector especially tailored to work with disadvantaged groups - Creating a network of organisations sharing common European values; and creation of a common adult education path to be used when working with adult migrants; - Exploring ways of how to cope with the pressure and the psychological distress that comes when working in emergency and highly pressure environments - Helping incoming people overcome language or document related barriers with the help of well trained local educators and volunteers; - Understanding the importance of recognising and fighting hate speech against migrants; and using adult education opportunities to help the local communities overcome fears and prejudices about migrants - Deepening of the cooperation among the members of the consortium and these and other organisations on the territory in which they operate, be it at local, national and international level.

Background

The main aim of this project was to help adult education practitioners working with adult migrants to gain a greater understanding of the important role that Adult education plays in the inclusion process of migrants and people with disadvantaged backgrounds when settling in European countries. Through the participation in the trainings offered in Greece, Spain and the virtual training in the UK, participants learnt about different adult education methods used by the host countries to promote: - more efficient educational and inclusion methods, - techniques, tools and activities to help the local communities to overcome prejudices and fears; - tackle false news around migrants and establishing strong relationships with the new comers through the promotion of common educational paths and share of culture and traditions. - having a better understand of mental health issues that arise both among migrants and staff and understand how to help and what to do.

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