The partner organizations strive to set a positive example that will have a signal effect for other organizations, EU policy and all other democratic self-organizations of migrants and other socially disadvantaged groups. Another expected outcome is the exchange of experiences and best practices. The organizations in the participating countries should expand their range of work (know-how transfer). Migrant and Roma parents should become active themselves and organize themselves in terms of democratic participation and inclusion. The most visible result should be a multilingual handbook that presents different ways of working and encourages people to follow the positive example in the interest of the educational success of migrant and Roma children.
The EPSPI project combines two key concerns in an innovative way: it addresses both early childhood development and ensuring the educational success of children from migrant, socially and ethically marginalized groups. Our approach aims to develop concepts to reach parents with social disadvantages and actively involve them in social work. Based on the diverse experiences of the project partners, the EPSPI project was launched to develop a common empowerment methodology for socio-educational work. The aim is to promote early childhood development, social participation and the strengthening of self-organization, whereby we are guided by the emancipatory-participatory pedagogy of Paulo Freire, which is important for the leading organization AEF. In addition, the project aims to give the institutions themselves and later outsiders an insight into the different situations in the EU countries and to test whether the different working methods can be used successfully in settings through an exchange of best practice.