NO left behind children- an action plan for parental education of migrant parents Erasmus Project

Project Title

NO left behind children- an action plan for parental education of migrant parents

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: Health and wellbeing; Access for disadvantaged; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

No child left behind is a project initiated by the Noi Re-Cream Association based in Timisoara, Romania and realised in partnership with organization from five different European countries: Promipresa (Italy), Synthesis (Cyprus), KMOP (Greece), Inercia Digital (Spain) and Previform (Portugal). The project aims at refining the communication within transnational families, by educating migrant parents and parental educators and offering tools to facilitate a continuous and substantial communication with the children left behind at home. The project responds to the critical situation of children left behind by parents migrating for work, feeling abandoned and without support in their most important years of development, when emotional security plays a very important role.

The project will be developed for a period of 24 months, across all the countries where the partners carry out their activities, and will focus on creating, implementing and disseminating three intellectual outputs: a training course of 15 modules of adult education training methods, an online platform with information and activities for parents and children and a digital application – KEEP IN TOUCH – connecting parents and children through a gamified component: daily activities and a system based on challenges, badges, and rewards.

The target groups of our project cover a large diversity of people and entities involved in managing the situations resulting from separating families due to work migration: parents, parental educators, organizations and institutions dealing with migration issues. The innovative character of the projects lies in the fact that we address the problems of transnational families by improving the understanding of the parents and their needs and offering direct tools for families to improve their connection and communication. For best results, we target not only parents themselves, but adult educators who can help implement and disseminate the project’s results across a large number of families, also outside of the project course.

We offer a specific focus on an intense communication strategy firstly at an internal level, building a tight collaboration between the partners and setting diverse and open channels of communication for the work teams. Secondly, the project has a strong and rich dissemination strategy meant to promote the project’s results as efficiently as possible. The multiplier events are very important milestones in the dissemination of the project and they are thought of as developing and strengthening the communities of parental educators and migrant parents, enhancing the exchange of information, practices and products.

The anticipated impact of the project is essential in the development of the life quality and family integrity in European countries. As a result of the project’s activities and products, the migrant parents who benefit out of it will be able to identify their individual needs concerning their relationship with their children and find a proper way to respond to them through the use of the project’s technological tools (the platform and the app). In the same time, the impact of the capacity building at the level of parental education will ripple the benefits of the project beyond its direct participants and far beyond its duration period. The professional organizations involved – within the consortium or through associate partnership – will align their practices at the best service for families to find a balanced and harmonious relation and raise their children properly, with understanding, attention and care.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 156620 Eur

Project Coordinator

Noi Re-Cream & Country: RO

Project Partners

• PROMIMPRESA SRL
• INERCIA DIGITAL SL
• SYNTHESIS CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LIMITED
• KENTRO MERIMNAS OIKOGENEIAS KAI PAIDIOU
• Previform – Laboratório, Formação, Higiene e Segurança do Trabalho, Lda