European Union For Unaccompanied foreign Minors Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Union For Unaccompanied foreign Minors

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: Migrants’ issues; Pedagogy and didactics; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

European Union for the inclusion of Unaccompanied Minors (EU-4-UM)

CONTEXT
In view of the migration flows some European countries are confronted with, several international and European reports have recently raised the issue of unaccompanied foreign minors. In a wish of harmonising the practices and strengthening equity to the non accompanied foreign minors, the reports note a high demand for training of actors on the ground (particularly social workers, educators, psychologists, legal experts) who are in contact with this population.

OBJECTIVES
EU-4-UM project aims at increasing unaccompanied foreign minors inclusion within the European Union. Two operational goals :
1. Improving the support to unaccompanied foreign minors by the dissemination of the existing and innovative practices of inclusion.
Drafting a good practice guide (paper and digital version) based on an exchange of national innovative experiences. More precisely, in identifying, compiling and sharing the successful initiatives linked to the unaccompanied foreign minors inclusion within the European Union.
2. Capacity building at European level of professionals and volunteers working with unaccompanied foreign minors.
Develop a common knowledge of unaccompanied foreign minors population for (future) employees and volunteers of organisations engaged within this field. Co-create with the partners a dematerialised training module (e-learning) for employees and volunteers of organisations on the ground. The module aims at disseminating minors’ rights fostered by the international conventions and the innovative practices in orientation, support and information about unaccompanied foreign minors’ rights.

PARTICIPANTS
Project participants are the professionals or volunteers working with unaccompanied foreign minors.
They was involved in all the phases which require their expertise about working with unaccompanied foreign minors.
Around 500 participants was involved in the project in the differents meeting and requests : national conferences to identify good practices, questionnaires to identify the needs, learning activities, dissemination events, evaluation of the intellectual output, final event.

ACTIVITIES
– 1 : Information collection
To provide content for the good practices guide and the training module (the two intellectual outputs of the project)
Exchanging on innovative practices during seminars about understanding, support and inclusion of unaccompanied foreign minors and also on tools which can shape the training module
– 2 : Intellectual outputs conception
Once information is collected, partners carry out the good practices guide and the training module by : meeting the provider for the technical conception of the intellectual outputs ; writing the good practices guide in english and then in the languages of the partnership ; shaping the pedagogical framework of the training module and its translation.
– 3 : Pilot testing
Partners collected feedback from stakeholders from his respective country. During the transnational meeting in Bari (Italy) all the feedback was shared to improve some elements of the productions.
– 4 : Dissemination and assessment
A dissemination plan was designed. Partners then started the dissemination of the intellectual outputs in their territories with a national event of dissemination. Finally, partners met at the project closing event in Brussels on 27th september 2019. During this event, the final project results was presented along with the intellectual outputs at european level.

RESULTS
The objectives of the project was reached.
The good practice guide and the platform online was created by all the partners, and each one brought additional component, in relation to their culture (Spain Italy, France, Austria, Sweden), and their field of action.
The intellectual output but also the events meeting all project long had a positive impact on the stakeholders. They was inspired and enriched by differents practices, and they create links between stakeholders from differents countries and fields (Health, education, law…).
The project participated to a better inclusion of unaccompanied minors by promoting a transnational and transdisciplinarity support.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 241123,25 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ligue de l’Enseignement du Pas-de-Calais & Country: FR

Project Partners

• DIE WIENER VOLKSHOCHSCHULEN GMBH
• Associazione Nero e non solo!
• FEDERACION ANDALUCIA ACOGE
• Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund