Digital cOmpetence to teach youth with mIgranT background Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital cOmpetence to teach youth with mIgranT background

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT
The effects and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted in the last six months require immediate action, especially for the most disadvantaged people. The lockdown made compulsory by the government’s indications has very different effects depending on the income, which poses huge problems in terms on how to ensure access, equity and inclusion in the learning environment. The OECD the 19th of October 2020 in its “What is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrants and their children?” states that “The school closures and distance learning measures put in place to slow the spread of COVID‑19 put children of immigrants at a disadvantage, in several ways. Their parents tend to have fewer resources than native-born parents to help them in their homework, and 40% of native-born children of immigrants do not speak the host-country language at home. Such children are also less likely than students with native-born parents to have access to a computer and an internet connection at home or to a quiet place for study.”
The Eu “Digital Education Action Plan, 2021-2027”, report says that from one side it is important “to increase the digital impact of the Erasmus programme” while on the other that “One of the key results of the consultation process was that while there is some indication of the wider impact of COVID-19 on education and training, it is still too early to conclude on its long-term consequences. Gathering more experience and conducting research into the lasting effects over a longer time period is therefore necessary.”
In light of what has been said, then, the project intends:
1. contribute to the gathering more experience of what is happening on the ground, by carrying out a research, on the effects of the pandemic on the learning and teaching process as expressed in the European Commission document to, in particular, youth with migrant background, by also paying special attention to the use of digital tools;
2. increase the skills of teachers, trainers, youth workers, associations dealing with youth with migrant background on how to deal with the effects that the pandemic has on learning and teaching to young people of migrant origin.
As far as the target group is concerned, while the indirect beneficiaries are young people of foreign origin, the direct ones will be represented by members of the organizations participating in the project, i.e. teachers, trainers, researchers, youth workers and associations of migrants and their children.
NUMBER-PROFILE OF PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS
The partnership consists of 5 organisations. It consists of school (2nd Vocational High School of Katerini, Greece), one foundation (Fundacion Red Incola, Spain) and an association/research centre (ECEPAA – Belgium), one youth organization (JOINT) and one migrant and youth with migrant background association (AMECE). Each of the organizations chosen contributes to forming a strategic consortium both because, it makes its own contribution in terms of expertise and because the different needs expressed.
DESCRIPTION OF UNDERTAKEN MAIN ACTIVITIES
There will be 1 main activities beyond the traditional project management activity that will be the development of the DO-IT digital publication.
METHODOLOGY USED
The main methodology a part the traditional project cycle management activity, is the one dealing with social science action research methodology.
RESULTS AND IMPACT ATTAINED
a 150/180 pages of a digital publication on how to better manage the effects of the Corona virus pandemic on the learning and teaching to young people of foreign origin, by also taking in consideration the use of digital tool.
LONGER-TERM BENEFITS
1. promoting the social inclusion of people coming from a migrant and low socio-economic background;
2. contributing to increasing the skills of teachers and trainers in dealing with learning and teaching to young people of foreign origin, by also taking in consideration the use of digital tool;
3. contributing to reducing early school leaving of youth with migrant background.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97830 Eur

Project Coordinator

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY ANALYSIS AND AFFAIRS & Country: BE

Project Partners

• 2o Epaggelmatiko Lykeio Katerinis
• ASSOCIAZIONE DI PROMOZIONE SOCIALE JOINT
• FUNDACION RED INCOLA
• Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Association Maison d’Enfant pour la Culture et l’Education Baity APS