INTEGRATION KEY FOR SENIOR CITIZENS AND ADULTS WITH MIGRATION HISTORY Erasmus Project

Project Title

INTEGRATION KEY FOR SENIOR CITIZENS AND ADULTS WITH MIGRATION HISTORY

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Migrants’ issues; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Project target groups:
At local level: Adults and senior citizens with the migration background, municipal management, volunteer facilities, adult education programs, universities, local media. At regional and national levels: regional management, migrant’s associations, education facilities, regional and national media. At the EU level: international NGOs, EU facilities, European media.

Partner: NGOs from Germany, Finland, Spain, Greece, Hungary and Portugal with 8-10 project participants everyone with experiences in the integration activity and with the successful participation within the scope of the EU projects (GRUNDTVIG and ERASMUS+).

Project aims and the expected results:
● intensive social Inclusion of the migrants, the adult population operable and the older people. Besides, the migrants should be integrated more actively into the new society.
● orientation in the information flow. Fake news and really news. The fight against the marginalization of the older migrants who could change, otherwise, into the light prey of the populist mass media.
● The open education and the innovative methods in the century of the digital information. The development of the digitization methods as well as the office-work online.
● improvement of the language teaching by intensive contacts with native speakers.
● integration by learning of the new homeland.
● sustainable development due to cooperation and experience exchange with the project partners who have concrete duties within the scope of the project activities. They are collaborating actively with the suitable organizations in their countries and at the European level, und collecting experiences and competences in the field of the project topic.

Other project tasks deal with deepening of the project fields. Thus the memoirs of the older generation which are connected with deportations and the Holocaust for the migrants in Germany, Finland and Greece have a particular importance.

Aims and tasks of the project are those that the results can be expected for his participants at different levels – local, municipal, regional, national and international ones. The project partners are working at different levels and it contributes to the result of the project. Besides, the open education and innovative methods in the digital age, the social integration and social inclusion as well as the development of the sustainable cooperation to develop national, regional and sectoral technologies and competences belong to the unconditional priorities of the project. The project tasks as intercultural education and lifelong learning as well as the migration topic belong to it also.

Seminars:
In the course of the project international project several meetings on 30 participants everyone are planned. The seminars are public and are carried out with the participating of the partner organizations and all interested participants. The topics of the seminars are connected with the major tasks of the project partners. The aim of these seminars is, primarily, the exchange of views and experiences within the scope of the project, announcing with the partner operations as well as the acquaintance with the culture of the partner country.

Sustainability:
After the end of the project all project partners remain in contact. They go on working with the suitable facilities in own countries and at the European level intensely. Some activities and results also continue after the end of the EU support. The sustainable development by the cooperation and the exchange from good practice with the project partners is another important job of the project partners.

It is, primarily, about the social Inсlusion and the fight against the marginalization of the older generation of the migrants. The innovative methods in the area of the digital information have is of great importance as well. It is also important to learn foreign language and to have mutual contacts with the native speakers as well as to learn the new homeland.

In addition the partner organizations have necessary resources, because these activities are a component of their own work and because they can collect certain experiences within 18 project months and attach good contacts.

The project product:
The project product is created in the form of a CD and also as a YouTube video. It includes main results, publications, seminar materials and the relevant reports of the project. The end product should be fulfilled by the forces of the project partners. It could influence the language and digitization learning as well as other aims and tasks of the project positively.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 50820 Eur

Project Coordinator

Integrationsbrücken e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Asociación de inmigrantes de países de Europa del Este en España, (AIPEA)
• Seukko-seura ry
• Alfavit Oktatási és Kulturális Közhasznú Alapítvány