NEw Workers for Inclusion Erasmus Project

Project Title

NEw Workers for Inclusion

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

Many European countries are faced with the need to welcome and host thousands of refugees and asylum seekers coming from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans.
The novelty and the dimension of the migratory flows required structures ready to manage the humanitarian emergency dealing with both the first reception and the social integration of the new arrivals in the host communities
The migrants’ operators play a fundamental role in welcoming, managing and including the new migrants in the arrival communities: a good reception can facilitate the social inclusion of refugees and asylum seekers, favoring their job integration and strengthen the cohesion of local actors.
This implies to updating the role of operators who is required to have complex skills related to cultural mediation, management of community life, refugees’ empowerment, psychological and practical support of people who live in serious discomfort conditions , educational, vocational and vocational guidance, job inclusion, etc.
At the present time a figure with these characteristics is missing: the reception centers are often managed by operators who, even if qualified, must “manage the emergency” by improvising their skills, as supported by the recent “Manifesto della Formazione accogliente” carried out by representatives of CPIA, CAS, SPRAR and Italian universities, expressing a common European need.

The valorization of operators’ experiences, the exchange of good practices and the mobility of reception center operators in Greece and Italy, can be an important education activities within an informal context and an international perspective of lifelong learning of adults and it can provide positive effects on the territories.

The Partnership of the NEWI project brings together Reception centers, Cooperatives, Adult Learning Centre and NGOs thanks to Cooperativa Toscana Servizi, responsible for reception and inclusion of migrants in Tuscany, Italy; the NGO Organisation Earth, expert in welcoming and including migrants in Greece; the No profit Association Rede Inducar, expert in migrants’ inclusion in Portugal; the CPIA Adults learning centre for migrants in Verona, Italy; Gryd LTD from United Kingdom as a multimedia Partner responsible of the development of video tutorials.

During the two year of the NEWI-NEw Workers for Inclusion- Project, the operators will be able to exchange good practices and learn through Short-term joint staff training events mobility in the foreign structures working with migrants in order to :
– learning about reception practices in partner countries by visiting centers and services for migrants
– knowing foreign experiences on migrant reception systems
– learning how to integrate migrants in different contexts
– updating on the regulations and policies of the partner countries
– exchanging different methods of inclusion of migrants
– valorizing their practices

Operators working in the reception of migrants will be able to update themselves through Short-term joint staff staff training events in:
– in Greece at the NGO Organization Earth, and visiting services and reception centers for migrants;
– in Italy at the Cooperativa Servizi Toscani, and visiting services and reception centers for migrants.

The results of the project will be the following :
– a guideline of migrants operators’ job description, within an “European service” perspective
– creating a Model of good practice regarding reception and social integration of migrants.
– online Video tutorials of results will be useful tools to develop e-learning and to spread the results to a wide public.
– recommendation on good practices on migrants’ reception addressed to stakeholders in the sector.

The support of the project by the Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
will also allow to inform and disseminate the results on the PAeSI Portal, Platform on norms and services regarding the immigration of the Tuscany Region.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 54475 Eur

Project Coordinator

Servizi Toscani Società Cooperativa Sociale & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Rede Inducar, CRL
• Centro Provinciale per l’Istruzione degli Adulti di Verona
• ORGANOSI GI
• GRYD LTD