Improving the initial education of adult immigrants Erasmus Project

Project Title

Improving the initial education of adult immigrants

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Immigrants, especially in their first year of life in the host country, have language problems what makes it difficult to offer them any educational programs (with the exception of language learning) and learning possibilities. Due to this fact, the project has created intellectual product that could provide better educational opportunities. The aim of the project had been to create and to test innovative educational tools based on digital technology for immigrants to acquire basic knowledge and understanding about host country’s sociocultural life: e-Educational Tool migis.eu, which improved and extended the offer of learning opportunities for migrants. Target groups – immigrants (both for the third countries and EU), immigrants’ educators.
As a result the objective of the project has been primarily directed to the development of the intellectual product, which would improve and extend the offer of learning opportunities for migrants. In other words it is an innovative product like a survival kit for migrants who have just arrived into the host country. This innovative product has been based on digital technologies – created e-platform having an open access at the same time. This material in the e-platform has been based on textual and visual material that has been written in a very simple, easy to understand language, and short sentences. As a result it is easy-to-use and understand for all immigrants and their educators. The project helps immigrants (who are in the first year of life in the host country and usually do not know the language of the country or cultural and social peculiarities of the life) to integrate into the host society more successfully.
The creation of the intellectual product consisted of 4 main activities: a study, on the basis of which innovative project product for immigrants was created (theoretical analysis, survey of immigrants (N-1127) and interviews of immigrants educators (N-85); creation and implementation of the e-platform, where the project product was located; the development of educational tools and its final testing, and improvements.
Moreover, the training activities for immigrants’ educators were conducted. The final tool was tested and improved with 17 adult immigrants ‘educators and 584 immigrants.

Project partners have been NGOs and higher educational institutions from 6 countries, which have had great experience in working with migrants, implementing EU program projects, conducting researches and also employing immigrants’ educators and providing number of courses for immigrants and educators.

Since this intellectual product is open and free-accessed the results are useful and beneficial not only for all interested migrants, educators, but also for tourists, visitors and locals. As a result, this project has provided educational opportunity for immigrants involved in the project and non-participating in it in order to gain basic knowledge and understanding of their host country’s socio-cultural life. Thus, basic knowledge and understanding of their host country’s socio-cultural life helps to understand the country’s culture, values and social life of the procedures and features, that is essential for maintaining good mutual relations, cooperation, understanding, tolerance, mutual respect throughout the European Community.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 174738 Eur

Project Coordinator

KLAIPEDOS UNIVERSITETAS & Country: LT

Project Partners

• PIXEL – ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
• FUNDATIA EUROED
• UNIVERSITATEA STEFAN CEL MARE DIN SUCEAVA
• LIEPAJAS UNIVERSITATE
• Shelter “Safe House”
• Social-educational initiatives centre PLUS
• FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULTURAL BPOCS