Citizens of public life in digital learning Erasmus Project

Project Title

Citizens of public life in digital learning

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: Inclusion – equity; Migrants’ issues; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

“INTEGRATION BY SOCIAL AND DIGITAL LEARNING”

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND
European countries have to support the integration of third-country nationals (non-EU citizens) much more than they did in the past half a century. In 2015, the number of asylum applications in Europe reached 1.3 million, three times what it was in 2013 and twice what it was in 2014. These numbers have diminished in 2017–18, due to increased control imposed by the EU Member States. However, the question of how to provide knowledge, information, and education that can support the integration of those who are arriving or are already in Europe, remains a glaring priority.
The increasing number of migrants and asylum seekers arriving in Europe places new demands on European education systems. In this context, the role that free digital learning (FDL) could play in fostering inclusion has attracted renewed interest of NGOs.
It is important that adult migrants seem to participate more in less formal types of education: individuals between 25-54 years old, born outside of the EU, tend to participate more in lifelong learning activities than individuals of the same age living in the EU Member State they were born in (Eurostat, 2016).
Various studies have found that learning is critical for migrant inclusion subsequently, the importance of providing education for migrants and refugees has been recognised by governments and national and international organisations. This vision goes beyond access to formal education, and recognition of prior learning, and also recognises the importance of less formal types of education.

Our project aims to develop innovative practices in the use of ICT in the effective teaching of Literacy to migrant adults (refugees, newly arrived migrants, asylum seekers, young adult migrants and migrant women), by testing and implementing innovative practices, including the creative use of ICT for language learning in the field of formal and non-formal adult education
EMERGING NEEDS
Migrants and NEET have to increase the knowledge and skills about:
(a) enhanced culturаl sеnsitivity in order to be more integrated in the society
(b) active citizenship in order to feel part of a larger and new context where to live in
(c) digital literacy to increase the employability and also extend the adult education thanks to ICT tools
PATHWAY
Exchange and transfer of Good Practice examples with practical details about its possible use and effective implementation.
The Open Educational Resources outputs are going to be used by educators of adult migrants and NEET persons.
The seven selected TOPICS are:
[1] active citizenship and community building
[2] cultural awareness
[3] open government
[4] urban sharing lifestyles
[5] social communication methodology
[6] digital literacy
[7] digital education
OUTPUTS/RESULTS
The project aims to:
(i) Produce a PRELIMINARY REPORT about the state of art of the integration and employment policies in partners’ countries;
(ii) Explore and discover successful GOOD PRACTICE examples about European cases of integration by social and digital learning (covering all the above-mentioned topics) – available in all Partners’ national languages;
(iii) Stimulate a change in the adult education thanks to the EXPLORATION OF INCLUSIVE AND INNOVATIVE APPROACHES to the social and digital inclusion;
(iv) Transfer the knowledge about effective methodologies and approaches during a JOINT STAFF TRAINING EVENT;
(v) To train selected staff (adult educators from partner’s institutions) about some interesting topics: active citizenship, creativity in urban areas, social communication methodology for the integration, digital education and community building;
(vi) Create a WEBSITE integrated with Blog and Social Networks containing MATERIALS TRANSLATED into all partners’ National languages to promote and encourage extensive exploitation and dissemination;
(vii) Disseminate the project outputs and results throughout EU with a database of OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES available through open licences;
(viii) Create a NETWORK at international level aimed to share and compare ideas, practices and methodologies.
PARTICIPANTS
Each partner organisation is going to be involved with some participants as follows:
· one per Transnational Project Meeting (adult educator)
· two during the Joint Staff Training Event (adult educator and/or trainer)
· five or more during the Dissemination activities as adult educators (adult educators, trainers, trainee and volunteers).
IMPACT ENVISAGED
The partnership will bring together partners coming from several countries and their stakeholders, with the synergic power to reach a very large and diverse audience, thanks also to an intensive dissemination campaign.
The results, made as Open Educational Resources, will be rea he results, made as Open Educational Resources, will be ready for a large exploration

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 51480,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Urban MBA & Country: UK

Project Partners

• EURO-NET
• Ballibag Köyü Yardimlasma ve Dayanisma Dernegi
• Namoi
• Organization for Promotion of European Issues
• MITRA FRANCE