Train The Trainer Of Immigrants. Innovative Training Course For Adult Educators. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Train The Trainer Of Immigrants. Innovative Training Course For Adult Educators.

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Integration of refugees; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

Project proposal: “Train The Trainer of Immigrants (TTT-I). Innovative Training Course for Adult Educators” was invented by Fundacja Ad Meritum (FAM) from Warsaw, Poland. The proposal is the result of gathering by Ad Meritum the experiences in implementing the methodology of informal language learning by immigrants (as the result of 2014-2016 Erasmus+ strategic partnership project), in developing MERITUM Style® in teaching Polish as a foreign language and in providing the trainings addressed to language teachers in the formula of “Train The Trainer”.

During the visit of the Second Chance School of Mytilene from Lesvos in Greece (SCSoM) in FAM in February this year, both project partners – FAM and SCSoM – found the methodologies mentioned above important to be implemented as the training course to answer the needs of immigrants concerning integration to hosting society.

Polish and Greek Partners decided about developing together the project proposal: “Train The Trainer of Immigrants (TTT-I). Innovative Training Course for Adult Educators”. They also decided to include the training modules to the course program concerning dealing by the trainers with traumatic situations of the learners, awareness of cultural differences in trainers’ work with immigrants and socio-economic environment and intercultural mediation.

To make the course available and suitable to all trainers in Europe working with immigrants on their inclusion to the hosting society and to give the wider perspective of effective solving immigrants problems, the core Partners decided to invite for preparing the project proposal three more organisations from European Union who work with immigrants on the large scale and who’s contribution in developing the training course will be significant and valuable due to their experience, know-how and European approach. The German Partner, WADI, was invited to develop the module on the awareness of cultural differences in trainers’ work with immigrants.
The Spanish Partner, Fundacion Universitat Jaume I – Empresa (FUJ-IE) was invited to develop the module on socio-economic environment and intercultural mediation.

The Partners also decided to invite one more Partner from Greece – Active Citizenship Partnership (ACP) from Athens. This Partner will develop the module on Cyber Café for the trainers as the method of TTT support, the Cyber café will be run in practice and thanks to that the volunteers, trainers and educators working with immigrants will have the virtual space for exchanging the experiences, supporting each other, but also in the virtual café they will have the access to developed during the project implementation programs and materials.

The project innovative tools – TTT-I program, materials and cyber learning platform will be used in all project partner organisations working directly with migrants, as this new, innovative formula of education, concentrated on facilitating informal learning of the immigrants, inspired by non-formal education high quality standards will help to provide more effective and pro-immigrant oriented programs supporting integration process with hosting society.
The database of the volunteers, well-trained according to the new methodological approach and available to work with immigrants and refugees in education area, ready to move to other country to support the activities of project partner organisations, will be used by all partner organisation for organising voluntary activities for their target groups of immigrants.

For Spanish partner, who is the research institute and training provider, including trainings for educators working in the area of multiculturalism, the project results will be used to offer the resources in immigrants and refugees situation and new training opportunities for their educators working in the area of multiculturalism.

In a case of Polish partner – FAM – the course developed within this project implementation “TTT-I. Train The Trainer of Immigrants Course” will be offered to European educators in the educational offer of FAM.

All relevant stakeholders will have the access to TTT-I tools: program and materials could be used in the educational practice of European organisations working with immigrants and to the database of the the volunteers, well-trained according to the new methodological approach and available to work with immigrants and refugees in education area, ready to move to other country to support the activities for immigrants, could be used by all European organisation for organising voluntary activities for their target groups of immigrants.

Project Website

http://trainthetrainerofmigrants.eu/cybercafe/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 110812 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundacja Ad Meritum & Country: PL

Project Partners

• SYNERGASIA ENEGON POLITON
• Wadi e. V. Association for Crisis Assistance and Development Co-operation
• SECOND CHANCE SCHOOL OF MYTILENE
• FUNDACION UNIVERSITAT JAUME I-EMPRESA