Promoting Refugee and Migrant Integration through Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Promoting Refugee and Migrant Integration through Education

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; Integration of refugees; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

In the current global context, our ability to effectively integrate refugees into new host communities remains a critical priority. Adult education has long been considered one of the most impactful and sustainable routes to integration. Yet despite the willingness of authorities, education and community organizations to be responsive to refugees’ needs, the challenges are substantial.

The overall goal of PROMISE is to facilitate the optimal integration of refugees and migrants into their host communities so that both can flourish. To do this, we will work with a range of adult education providers from local authorities to community organizations, to improve the quality of learning opportunities that are available to them.

Specifically we will:
i) Enable service providers to improve collaborative planning and coordination of education activities in Interagency Networks
ii) Increase the ability of educators to deliver effective, personalised and culturally sensitive education
iii) Develop an innovative learning framework that provides refugees with opportunities for knowledge and skills development in the areas most needed for a successful transition into a new life. To ensure wide access, the framework will be shared as OERs for education providers and in a user-friendly online course for refugees who can engage in independent learning.
iv) Organise the PROMISE Skills Accelerator course so that 15 educators can become competent in using the framework, implementing it in their own organizations and motivated to teach others in their region.

In doing so, the project addresses the following needs of our participants and target groups and will create lasting impact for them:
a) Refugees and migrants will gain the knowledge, skills and cultural “know how” they need to flourish, successfully integrating socially, culturally and professionally to their new community.
b) Education providers and stakeholders will gain a more comprehensive understanding of the issues impacting the refugees as well as tools and methods for increasing engagement, improving learning effectiveness and ensuring efficiency of resource usage across actors. Networks of local actors to collaborate more effectively and be more responsive to the real-time needs of the refugees and asylum seekers that arrive in their communities. This experience of collaborative work will be instructive for future projects.
c) Education and social development policy makers and funders will identify high performing education strategies for refugees and find tangible ways to support their uptake at national or international level.
d) Project partners will acquire new didactic strategies for improving the effectiveness of education for integration and social inclusion. They will improve their own competences in knowledge sharing and strategic relationship building and have a clear understanding of how to sustain and grow the project in the long term.

The project makes a notable contribution to strengthening our education programmes for some of the most vulnerable in society. It is notable for its ability to enable learning and innovation in service delivery between countries where refugee education programmes are in early stages and countries with much more tangible experience. Nevertheless, the timing is also fortuitous as in those countries where more established integration programmes are in place, (ej Germany, Italy and Turkey for example) the approaches now coming under scrutiny of evaluation.

Overall the project is important because we need to ensure communities are strengthened by migration and not undermined by marginalization or radicalization. We believe this can be achieved, in large part, through education and two-way responsibility between refugees and their host communities.

Project Website

https://www.promise-project.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 212641,1 Eur

Project Coordinator

Roscommon Integrated Development Co. Ltd t/a Roscommon LEADER Partnership & Country: IE

Project Partners

• CEBANC
• MOMENTUM MARKETING SERVICES LIMITED
• KulturLife gGmbH
• Frontiera Lavoro
• T.C. TUZLA KAYMAKAMLIGI
• CANICE CONSULTING LIMITED