Cultural Ambassadors Target Loneliness through Intercultural Dialogue Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cultural Ambassadors Target Loneliness through Intercultural Dialogue

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Inclusion – equity; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

The project has been prepared to make a meaningful contribution to inter-cultural dialogue and addressing loneliness, both of which are identified by the European Commission, Member Governments and agencies engaged in local / regional strategic planning as important social issues to be addressed.

The application has evolved from the current Erasmus+ project entitled EDIN (Equality Diversity Inclusion Network) where a network of organisations have come together to ensure these principles are embedded in the delivery of Lifelong Learning. This ethos is embedded in the Cultural Ambassadors Target Loneliness through Intercultural Dialogue (CATLID) project where we will enact the following steps:

– Develop a training course to provide migrants / refugees with the skills to become Community Educators and share their cultural background
– Pilot the training course with eight migrants / refugees and run a series of Inter-cultural Dialogue workshops for them to engage and share with businesses, public sector, NGOs
– In addition run Inter-Cultural Dialogue workshops (Knowledge Parties) for migrants / refugees to share with individuals facing loneliness and to facilitate on-going engagement to provide for all the opportunity to extend their support network / contact
– Follow-up from the Knowledge Parties to create buddying links between course participants and individuals facing loneliness to reduce their respective sense of isolation
– Produce a series of audio – video good practice case studies to promote the project methodology contribution to inter-cultural dialogue
– Produce and publish a Handbook on Techniques to Creatively Tackle Loneliness through Intercultural Dialogue, which can be used as a resource to develop new ideas and approaches to creative engagement

The six partners will each train and up-skill eight migrants to become Community Educators who will be a resource for inter-cultural dialogue which will during the project and through sustainability beyond the impact will be to provide learners with presentation skills, enhanced cultural awareness, employability skills, increased confidence and communication skills. In addition the impact will assist businesses to embrace diversity / understand better their customers, assist public sector / NGOs better understand the background / plan for the needs of local citizens and to be active citizens and resource for community cohesion initiatives. Community Educators will also be a resource to buddy with people facing loneliness and enable situations of mutual support and benefit.

With active partner contribution from Austria France, Poland, Spain, Sweden and UK the longer-term project benefits will be to bring a trans-national perspective and innovative creative trans-national solutions to combining the project themes of inter-cultural dialogue and loneliness. This will result in the production of materials and tools which can be mainstreamed within the partner organisation and be available through active dissemination to other learning providers / community development / community cohesion focussed organisations throughout Europe.

Project Website

http://www.catlid.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 216445,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

DACORUM COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE & Country: UK

Project Partners

• VEREIN MULTIKULTURELL
• ORANGE HILL Sp. z o.o.
• FORMACION PARA EL DESARROLLO E INSERCION, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
• Leno Consulting
• Center för Socialt Entreprenörskap Sverige
• GROWTH COOP S.COOP.AND
• DIE BERATER UNTERNEHMENSBERATUNGS GESELLSCHAFT MBH