We wanted to facilitate integration of foreigners who participated in our activities in the receiving country's culture on all possible levels: social, that of education, that of employment. We gave them cultural knowledge, in both theoretical and practical forms, meaning to foster their understanding of the peculiarities of this new culture. We also wanted to create a platform of interaction with nationals for them to culturally enrich each other and learn from each other - we conducted this in the form of an escape room. We wanted to collect foreigners' opinions on what they already knew about the country they currently reside, compare cultures, share what they learnt from our cultural course. Dissemination activities aimed at reaching more people with immigrant profile and provide them with these tools to understand culture aiming at their better integration in the receiving society. We also aimed at improving emotional wellbeing of the migrants, as people need to feel they form part of the society, and for foreigners it is difficult to reach in many cases.
We applied for this project, because we saw the necessity to facilitate integration of immigrants in the receiving country, providing them with essential cultural knowledge. Absence of cultural knowledge is one of the main obstacles of integration, including educational & labour integration. We addressed the following needs: 1) To create theoretical and practical tools for immigrants to better know and understand their receiving cultures. 2) To organize activities, in which they would interact with each other and also with nationals, obtaining valuable knowledge and skills. 3) To facilitate the establishment of multicultural society. Multicultural society brings benefits to both nationals and foreigners. Yet, it is not easy to reach, as many foreigners do not really form part of the society. We consider culture knowledge as the first step that would foster acquisition of educational and labour opportunities by foreigners, and this contributes to diversity at workplace.