Prevent Radicalisation – Supports for Professionals in Their Work with Refugees and Migrants Erasmus Project

Project Title

Prevent Radicalisation – Supports for Professionals in Their Work with Refugees and Migrants

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Pedagogy and didactics; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The project “Prevent Radicalisation – Supports for Professionals in Their Work with Refugees and Migrants” was developed by the following partners: Università delle LiberEtà del FVG (Italy, Coordinator), E-C-C Verein fuer interdisziplinaere Bildung und Beratung (Austria), INTEGRA INSTITUT (Slovenia), QUALED (Slovakia), KTP (Czech Republic), Kultur und Arbeit e.V. (Germany). It took place over 18 months between September 2016 and February 2018. The context of the project is the refugee crisis that has hit Europe in recent years: the unexpected dimension of the crisis has found many countries unprepared and has posed a serious challenge to a large number of professionals and volunteers working to receive, help, provide training and integrate refugees. People working closely with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants suddenly find themselves between two fires: the growing xenophobia of the indigenous population on the one hand and frustration and impatience on the other. Most of these people are motivated by a great will to help, but sometimes the best intentions do not necessarily lead to doing any good. New skills and competences are needed to be better prepared to deal with tensions within and between different groups of refugees, and indicators of radicalisation that may exist need to be identified at an early stage.
The overall objective of the project was to identify initiatives, projects and approaches that show how to provide skills and competences to people working with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in order to address (intercultural) tensions between different groups, to detect, among beneficiaries/dispersers at risk of extremism, indicators to identify how best to build resilience to radicalisation, recognise and address the growing concerns about extremism and discrimination, such as racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, which refugees and many migrants face, and reduce racism and xenophobia in society. To achieve this goal, more than 60 Best Practices identified in each of the project partner countries have been collected and a report (the White Paper) has been drawn, which also contains the conclusions that each partner has drawn from the analysis of the Best Practices themselves. A document not foreseen during the project construction phase, the “Cross-sectorial analysis report”, was also drawn up: it contains a more detailed analysis of the Best Practices according to some indicators such as the reference targets, the type, the experience and the areas of interest and it also includes an analysis of the number of good practices per country compared to the partnership average.
During the research phase, the bodies identified during the implementation phase of the project idea were contacted in order to obtain an initial feedback on the current state of the issues related to the relationship between professionals or volunteers and migrants. The same bodies, as well as other stakeholders belonging to the national and European networks of each project partner, were then involved in the dissemination of the project results by sending newsletters, dissemination meetings and press releases. These bodies include secondary and vocational training schools, municipalities, social promotion associations and other institutions or associations dealing with the reception or integration of migrants.
The main activities and results of the project were therefore the research phase in each country of the partnership, which also involved the bodies identified during the implementation of the project idea, the identification of the Best Practices, the creation of a single model to bring together the indicators and contents of each Best Practice, the creation of the White Paper which contains short summaries and cross-references to the Best Practices and conclusions for each partner country, the creation of an appendix, the “Cross-sectorial analysis report”, the translation of the Best Practices and the White Paper into each language of the partnership countries and the creation of a website to collect all the information about the project and its results. In addition, the project created internal documents such as the Project Management Toolkit, the Memorandum of Understanding and Code of Conduct, the Quality Assurance & Evaluation Plan, the Dissemination Logs for each partner and the project logo. All the project meetings scheduled were regularly held in Slovenia, Austria and Italy.
The impact obtained during the dissemination of the project is being evaluated. The project valorisation activities included the sending of newsletters and the presentation of the project results to the entities belonging to the partnership and to the stakeholders identified.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 42625 Eur

Project Coordinator

Università delle LiberEtà del Fvg & Country: IT

Project Partners

• E-C-C Verein fuer interdisziplinaere Bildung und Beratung
• INTEGRA INSTITUT, Institut za razvoj clovekovih potentialov
• KTP – Spolecnost pro kvalifikaci na trhu prace
• QUALED obcianske zdruzenie pre kvalifikáciu a vzdelávanje
• KULTUR UND ARBEIT EV