The ‘Life in EU’ aimed to promote active citizenship though creative learning, to strengthen labour market integration through an online motivational roadmap to employability and knowledge and recognition of diversity and promotion of tolerance. The project was formulated as a user-centric, technology fuelled project that aims to empower young migrants to communicate, interact, create and exchange knowledge through the use of novel learning technologies that support and foster ubiquitous, learner-centred, social and life-wide future smart training and knowledge transfer. The proposed approach aimed to establish a digital learning ecosystem that targets societal needs and challenges by promoting cognitive, affective and social aspects of personalised training within informal (cultural, historic, tradition) settings. The project was instilling augmented reality worlds of “serious games, gamification and simulations” coupled with a smart assessment capability that leverages performance-based assessment tools and machine/deep learning technologies for dynamic adaptation of the learning scenarios and environment.
The Application defines the reasons and the needs as following: The past couple of years and due to the migration flows in Europe, Member States have been applying various policies aiming for the smoother integration of migrants. Special attention is being given for the education and training policies that plan to facilitate labour integration of the migrant population. In fact, Member States have been forced to improve their national strategies for youth inclusion in the fields of training, labour market and society, thus leading to a positive effect on migrants’ integration. It is obvious that the current methods are not necessarily effective since youth do not find their application attractive, their needs are not sufficiently met and the motives are not convincing. Additionally, the COVID years brought self-isolation measures resulting to the pause of training and social interaction, thus further delaying the integration process. The solution suggested by the “Life in EU” is the relation of citizenship related education to employment and livelihood along with the use of new technologies since they can play a crucial role, bringing a valuable training to the society, enabling a paradigm shift towards citizenship activation.