Migrants successful integration may enrich and contribute toward the development of the mainstream society. In those efforts, informal education and "peer to peer" learning may play a significant role. Successful migrant path to integration may become a model for their peer group. Development of skills, including language proficiency, social and soft skills competencies may be supported by the creativity and art. INTEGRART is a project aimed at enhancing the quality of informal education of adult migrants. They are co-designers and co-creators of the integration supporting material including material and information in social media and short featured films presenting songs and melodies assisting them in gaining language social integration. To achieve that goals the Community of Practice and Art will be build and sustained supporting integration efforts The main goal of the project is to improve and support migrant integration by creativity and art delivering high-quality, authentic material which creates curiosity and positive attitude toward integration of migrants. INTEGRART will involve migrants in helping their peer group boost creativity, integrate knowledge and skills, connecting their expectations and needs to the real world, and their interests and personal goals. Specifically, they will help them connect and improve their abilities to influence others as pathfinders of better integration within hosting society. Project partners invite migrants as co-designers and co-creators to explore the best ways for better integration through focused music driven artistic projects The participants - migrants - will work in different environments - online, on the meetings and workshops - to design, create, select, filter and test music based visual, text and multimedia resources supporting effective integration efforts. The approach of the INTEGRART project is to jointly develop and engage migrants into successful integration using digital education tools. INTEGRART project build innovative system for supporting training for a new generation of competent and creative migrants. Digital apprenticeships focused on migrant needs will facilitate their integration efforts using digital tools and methods and consequently path the way to access to social integration in their host country. The focus of the project will be development of the comprehensive system and tools supporting integration of migrant civic leaders using digital tools supporting their creativity through ART. Most of their training will be based on the individually crafted support building digital skills and competencies. Special focus in the INTEGRART project will be given to support of the migrant women and girls. The base of the training will be 2018 Horizon Europe seal of excellence award winning platform SMRT.BIO which measure strengths and passion psychometric tests which will help migrants to build individual digital competencies integration development plans. It will be done while working for creation of the migrant focused ad hoc project groups who helps the migrant leaders to learn their digital skills in exchange for their continued engagement for joint creative projects for an agreed period 3-4 months during which they will achieve significant measurable digital competencies. The planned duration of the project is 24 months. The INTEGRART project partnership includes Foundation of support of local ties - Linking Foundation (PL) SMRT.BIO Holding (NL) The European Centre for Women and Technology. (NO) The project will include development of the 3 intellectual outputs. 1) Development of the methodology for gathering digital skill need analysis among migrant community with the special emphasis of women and girls 2) Development of the benchmarking analysis for the integrating of the migrant communities using new digital tools and competencies 3) Creation of the experimental group of migrant Community of Practice and Art in european cooperation including Poland, Netherlands and Norway based on the SMRT.BIO methodology.
The primary need we aimed to address was the successful integration of migrants by providing them with high-quality, authentic materials that fostered curiosity and a positive attitude towards integration. We recognized that informal education and "peer-to-peer" learning, supported by creativity and art, music in particular, could play a significant role in facilitating the integration process. By involving migrants as co-designers and co-creators, we sought to empower them to boost their creativity, integrate knowledge and skills, and connect their expectations and needs with the real world. Our intention was to enable migrants to become pathfinders of better integration within the hosting society, leveraging focused music-driven artistic projects. The INTEGRART project took an innovative approach by jointly developing and engaging migrants in successful integration through digital education tools. We aimed to build a comprehensive system and tools that supported the integration of migrants, focusing on digital skills and competencies. Special attention was given to supporting migrant women and girls throughout the project.
We applied for the INTEGRART project to address the pressing needs of migrants in terms of creative, informal integration efforts and skills development. We recognized that successful integration of migrants could be enriched through innovative approaches that utilize creativity, art, and informal education. Therefore, the project sought to enhance the quality of informal education for adult migrants, making them active co-designers and co-creators of integration-supporting materials. The project aimed to meet the need for effective integration support by engaging migrants as active co-designers and co-creators. We understood that traditional methods alone might not fully address the diverse challenges migrants face during the integration process. Therefore, we sought to leverage the power of creativity and peer-to-peer learning to provide a supportive and engaging environment for migrants. Some of the skills we tried to address were language proficiency, social interaction, digital skills and soft skills competencies. By addressing these needs and objectives, the INTEGRART project aimed to contribute to the successful integration of migrants and foster their engagement through creativity, art, and digital tools.