Young Migrant Integration Leaders Erasmus Project

Project Title

Young Migrant Integration Leaders

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: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Integration of refugees; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

Since the expansion of the EU from 15 Member States in 2004 the level of migration from former Soviet bloc countries to more established Member States has been a continuing feature of EU population movements. Large numbers of economic migrants from most of the 13 new Member States have moved west in search of employment and the lure of what many considered would be a better quality of life. As a result of events in North Africa Europe has experienced a significant influx of refugees and asylum seekers hoping to build a new life away from their country of origin. In 2016, the number of people living in the EU28 who had been born outside of the EU was just over 36 million (Eurostat). Within the growing migrant numbers many young people are being targeted by extremists seeking to mobilize and radicalize marginalized sub-sets of the migrant community. The integration of these young migrant populations into host society is a priority objective in all Member States.

There is a considerable shortage of specialist migrant integration training materials available to front-line staff in adult and community education organisations. There is also a real need for in-service training to build the skill sets of adult and community educators.

The EXEMPLAR project consortium propose to develop the following intellectual outputs:
IO1 – a bespoke Integration Leaders training curriculum addressed to migrant youth that supports the acquisition of key civic and social competences essential to their new role as leaders of integration in their communities;
IO2 – a toolbox of 12 learning resources that support the acquisition of key civic and social competences to support the integration activities of the migrant youth who complete the Integration Leaders training;
IO3 – an in-service training programme for front-line adult and community educators and those working in migrant support organisations to assist them in delivering the Integration Leaders curriculum;
IO4 – a versatile e-learning portal that supports learning in a range of environments through readily available fixed and mobile media devices

A minimum of 10 front-line adult and community educators and migrant support staff working in specialist organisations will complete the in-service training in each partner country. A minimum of 10 young migrants will complete the Integration Leaders curriculum in each partner country. Each young migrant who completes the training will establish a micro-network of young migrants and support their integration into their new host community.

Project Website

https://www.exemplars.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 247089 Eur

Project Coordinator

JUGEND-& KULTURPROJEKT EV & Country: DE

Project Partners

• The Rural Hub CLG
• ALIANCE LEKTORU a KONZULTANTU
• Hub Karelia Oy
• CYPRUS ORGANIZATION FOR SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION AND ACTIVE LEARNING (S.E.A.L CYPRUS)
• Auxilium pro Regionibus Europae in Rebus Culturalibus
• OSRODEK SZKOLENIOWO-BADAWCZY INNEO