‘Refugee Integration through Dignity, Health and Employability’ Erasmus Project

Project Title

‘Refugee Integration through Dignity, Health and Employability’

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The purpose of this project is to introduce a newly element into the existing framework of refugee integration into EU communities. One that offers a simple alternative to the ‘squandering’ of human capital, alongside a mechanism that recognises not only the importance of reclaiming dignity and identity for refugees, but for members of the host community itself.The project aspires to make migrant integration into EU communities a more efficient and less stressful process for the individual migrants and the recipient communities. The use of dignity diaries will encourage empathy with the ‘local’ hosts whilst our health, sport and employability models will provide the integration tools.Taking such an approach will ensure intercultural understanding and active citizenship by the host and the migrant is achieved harmoniously. Creating social integration will ensure any migrant issues are dealt with removing grievance etc. that will reduce any drive towards and prevent violent radicalisation whilst promoting democratic values, fundamental rights. The Youth crisis facing the European Union presents numerous socio-economic and political challenges for all member states, and calls for innovative models that deliver resources and practical solutions for diverse target audiences (new arrivals, political asylum seekers, unaccompanied minors, etc.). The transnational nature of the migration problem calls for a transnational, multilingual and multi facets solution paradigm that is flexible, proactive and scalable. The Le Menach Foundation Consortium (LMFC) has been constructed to leverage the respective strengths and reach of partners to mobilise coherent solutions built on dignity, health and enterprise and employability to deliver an integration solution. The model is titled ‘Refugee Integration through Dignity, Health and Employability’ (RITDHE), to represent the nature of the model. ‘It isn’t just a question of human rights though – there is something even more fundamental at Issue…a concept that ultimately provides the foundation for human rights: human dignity’. The Dignity Diaries is a platform for filmed interviews with individuals whose lives have been touched by the role that dignity and honour, and shame and guilt, have played, or still play, in their lives. The Diaries were launched at the United Nations in 2014, as part of a campaign calling to redefine what dignity and honour really mean, and originally created to look at the role that dignity and honour plays in the perpetuation of poverty for women and girls. Initially created as a platform for the purpose of men speaking out to other men, the Dignity Diaries expanded to include other groups, as the narratives turned into teaching tools and interviewees acted as mirrors to one another. This created pathways into sensitive issues that could be openly expressed in safety, and without being confronted by the other, providing a framework for further exploration.LMF proposes the creation of a Dignity Diary platform to aid Refugee integration and link to the employability4europe.com digital employability model. This project will build capacity to replicate and expand the RITDHE model across the EU, and build language and localization application.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129952,28 Eur

Project Coordinator

LE MENACH FOUNDATION & Country: UK

Project Partners

• INTERACTIVE MEDIA KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER INTERMEDIAKT
• SOUTHERN AFRICA YOUTH PROJECT NPC
• CATALYST IN COMMUNITIES LTD
• DRAMBLYS
• INSTITUT ZA PODGOTOVKA NA SLUJITELIV MEJDUNARODNI ORGANIZACII ZDRUZHENIE
• ISTITUTO DEI SORDI DI TORINO
• CHILDREN CARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION