Step to the New Life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Step to the New Life

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: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

The aim of this project was to find common solutions among partner countries how to carry out properly educational (general education and professional competences development), social rehabilitation and psychological programs for prisoners, also to release the official major publication, containing the accumulated experience of international educators. Also an important part of the project was the teaching perspectives of foreigners, guidelines and strategies, which as the immigration grows and the amount of refugees in Europe keeps drastically rising, become more and more important in refugee centers, as well as in prisons. Another aspect – was to investigate personal connections between inmates and their families, because this is the most important thing if we are trying to succeed in social rehabilitation program. Successful communication among partners and sharing best practice and learning from difficulties that others has faced allow teachers, social workers and vocational training personnel to create a favorable environment for all socially vulnerable parties to integrate successfully into society and become a valuable part of it. Such point of view can help to protect the rights of people living in Europe to education and social security.
The pivot of the project — partners efforts to learn how to create and/or improve the learning environment without discriminatory treatment to people with other nationalities or prisoner statuses. The equal cooperation among all the partners in all phases of the project helped to achieve this goal in different forms: the environment in the foreigners classes woukd be more friendly, if educators would pay the attention to the advices that we give in our final product “Teacher’s guide”, because in this publishment we were focusing on many different aspects of communication between our students, who usually are with various living experiences, that came from different backgrounds..
The collaboration of partner countries helped us to create the training, education and re-socialization guide for imprisoned people. The international experiences that are collected in this teaching guide allow successfully gain knowledge and improve the adults teaching skills in many areas of professionals working in prisons. Each partner country’s active proceeding in the project made a majour influence creating and systematizing the existing experiences into one publishment and it also gave to the project a nodge in the field of preparation of the imprisoned persons for life in freedom. This dedication will not only make the impact nationally, but also internationally.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 27200 Eur

Project Coordinator

Vilniaus mokymo centras & Country: LT

Project Partners

• BIEDRIBA EUROFORTIS
• Pucko otvoreno uciliste Zagreb