Promoting migrant inclusion through environmental awareness and eco-friendly strategies Erasmus Project

Project Title

Promoting migrant inclusion through environmental awareness and eco-friendly strategies

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Environment and climate change; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Environmental awareness is at the core of at least 7 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN and social inclusion of migrants and migration are inherent in all of them. In a context of rising awareness on both subjects, and with the stereotyped image of environmental action being an exclusive type of activism for privileged groups, we found it essential to explore how it interacts with interculturality and what role it can play in integration paths of adult migrants.
According to the need analysis in partner countries (France-Paris, Italy, Spain and France-Martinique) adult migrants and adult trainers show a strong curiosity towards environmental awareness and social inclusion and a desire to build social link upon it. There is a need for innovative ways to value migrants’ experience and motivation by facilitating intercultural dialogue with host society members based on this topic. This project aims at promoting migrant inclusion through environmental awareness and the development of eco-friendly educational materials for adult trainers.

Green Interculturality has a double OBJECTIVE:
1)to foster inclusion of adult migrants by
-developing language skills
-increasing networking
-integrating the new environmental context
-valuing their knowledge and experiences
2)to provide adult trainers with educational tools so that they can implement inclusion workshops related to environmental awareness

Our TARGET GROUPS and their profiles are:
-adult trainers/educators/social workers working with adult migrants who will be involved in: field research, multiplier events and Blended Mobility (455 in total)
-adult migrants (asylum seekers, refugees, new comers) who will be involved in: field research and co-constructive workshops (175 in total)
-host society members interested in developing new skills and building a more inclusive society who will participate in: field research, co-constructive workshops and multiplier events (80 in total)
-institutions, organizations that provide migrant inclusion services, stakeholders, decision makers in the field of migrant inclusion who will be involved in: multiplier events and other dissemination activities.

To reach our GOALS we will:

1)Develop 5 Intellectual Outputs:
IO1 Foundation Bricks: focus groups and research about intersectionality between social inclusion and environmental awareness
IO2 Eco-theatre: co-construction theatre workshops with adult migrants and host society members to reflect on their relationship to the environment, develop networking, improve language skills using forum-theatre.
IO3 Eco-language: co-construction language workshops with adult migrants aiming at stimulating the acquisition of language, environmental and intercultural skills through multisensory learning.
IO4 Eco-community mapping: co-construction art-therapy workshops with adult migrants and host society members in order to create an eco-friendly map of the area’s eco-friendly places to appropriate the physical space for a better integration.
IO5 Eco-platform: Open Educational Resource ensuring that the developed results and corresponding background materials will be freely available to a wide audience for years after the project ends.

2)Organize learning and training activities
Joint Staff Training to share each other’s own expertise and to work on the building of common educational tools and approaches.
Blended Mobility to allow 3 adult trainers/educators/social workers (per partner organization) to be trained to implement environmentally focused social inclusion programs.

3)Set up local multiplier events linked to every Intellectual Outputs and a Final Conference.
Our methodology will be based on: desk and field research, forum theatre techniques, multisensory approach and art-therapy
Our expected result is an Eco-toolkit for adult trainers composed of:
– Background theory about intersectionality between social inclusion and environmental awareness
– Educational sheets describing step-by-step activities aimed at fostering migrant social inclusion (language/social skills, mutual) through environmental awareness.

PROJECT IMPACT:

Adult trainers will be able to
-foster the inclusion of adult migrants (acquisition of local language, physical appropriation of new areas, building of a network) while developing behaviors that promote environmental awareness and action
-facilitate peer-education through mixed groups of people

Adult migrants will
-develop a network and improve their social and language skills
-valorize their knowledge and experiences

Members of the host society and stakeholders will
-participate in the inclusion process of migrants and spread a positive message about migration
-widen their knowledge and practice about eco-friendly strategies

The project’s sustainability is assured by the materials’ long-term availability on the project website and on EU platforms but also through the offer of future workshops and courses built around these results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 297858 Eur

Project Coordinator

ELAN INTERCULTUREL & Country: FR

Project Partners

• D’ANTILLES ET D’AILLEURS
• Associacio La Xixa Teatre
• CESIE
• Associació Animacción España / Associació Animacción Arteterapia