Integration Pathway for New Adult Migrants and Refugees. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Integration Pathway for New Adult Migrants and Refugees.

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

The IPNA-MAR project was implemented over 24 months from 1st September, 2017 to to 31th August, 2019 in three countries across Europe, from Sweden to Lithuania and passing through Romania, through a partnership of three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) built around complementary missions,institutional competencies and expertise in order to achieve a common goal: to develop, implement and disseminate innovative and useful educational tools tailored to adult educators teaching and training needs and new adult migrants’ and refugees’learning priorities.
Comics are known to be one of the most potent and useful communication tools, particularly in the field of adult education, thus the medium of comic strips was chosen to support the delivery of the first project output whereas a guide in the form of a digital book was designed to accompany adult educators, step by step, through the process of using comics to communicate. Adult educators would also be able to, without outside help, reproduce the cartoons and exploit them with a wide range of target profiles in different contexts and using various topics.
In this respect, the specific objectives of the project were:
1) To design, develop and implement a useful educational tool comprising a series of comic strips focusing on the integration of refugees; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; and access for disadvantaged;
2) To design, develop and implement an accompanying guide for adult educators in their role as providers of non-formal learning opportunities.
The total number of participants in the project was 400, including adult educators and new adult migrants and refugees. The adult educators came from backgrounds representing European multiculturalism and diversity at its best, while the new adult migrants and refugees represented a cross-section of a population from different socio-economic and political contexts, including educational status – school dropouts, or did not complete high school – disadvantaged, underemployed, unemployed, socially excluded.
The participants actively took part in the whole project cycle, from the preparatory / focus group phase, to the testing phase, to a series of dissemination laboratories in adult education centres and NGOs (involving at least 150 adult educators) and to the multiplier events – meetings for stakeholders and professionals to validate, within a multi-target network, the importance of targeted adult learning.
The main project outputs were the production of an educational tool comprising a series of comic strips and an accompanying adult educators’ guide; dissemination of the outputs on the main Open Education Resources (OER)platforms, ePALE tools area, the project website and each partner’s website; a healthy dissemination plan supported by the most popular media among adults; the establishment of an alliance / network among actors involved in adult education and the development of a “word of mouth” network on the project topics.
The project’s outcomes were as follows:
1) Enhanced pedagogical skills among adult educators brought about through an innovative adult learning approach based on comics: and
2) Increased understanding and awareness among adult educators of new adult migrants’ and refugees’ learning priorities brought about by a bi-directional learning process in which both the newly arrived and the local people appreciate and respect each other’s background.
In the long term, this project has the potential to contribute to promoting high-quality adult education targeting new migrants and refugees.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 103940 Eur

Project Coordinator

THE ORGANIZATION FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND DEVELOPMENT & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Asociatia Aspiratii si Motivatii pentru Viitor
• VsI Socialiniu inovaciju centras