Accessibility and Inclusion for Migrants Erasmus Project

Project Title

Accessibility and Inclusion for Migrants

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; Migrants’ issues; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

BACKGROUND/CONTEXT
The Accessibility and Inclusion for Migrants (AIM) partnershiip has worked hard to build the capacity of VET institutions to achieve more proactive inclusion of migrants through up-skilling staff to go beyond procedural accessibility and give more migrants the best possible opportunity to access VET and achieve outcomes comparable with native-born students.

ACHIEVEMENT OF OBJECTIVES
As set out in the orginal project intent, AIM has delivered on the following objectives:-
1. Establishment of 5 VET Business Partnerships and Plans (UK, Sweden, Ireland, Turkey and Italy) bringing together 68 key representatives from 52 VET sector, migrant networks and NGOs working with migrants and governmental bodies. Publish 5 Partnership Plans that improve greater access and inclusion for migrants in VET – plans accessed online by 663 people..
2. Production of an innovative SELF-ASSESSMENT SYSTEM for VET institutions to evaluate their current level of access and inclusion and generate a personalized learning path that was completed by 1636 people.
3. Production of VET CURRICULUM; a multilingual curriculum and learning materials aimed at staff in different roles in VET institutions to help them drive organizational change towards inclusion for migrants. The curriculm is presented in 4 langauges and has been downloaded as a classroom course 828 times.
4. Production of OPEN ONLINE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES; interactive online learning resources complementing the curriculum and establishing a delivery platform, providing maximum flexibility to increase access and accelerate learning – available on www.inclusion.how

NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICANTS
– 68 high-level representatives of 52 organizations from the fields of VET and education in general, non-profit organizations working with migrants in the community, public authorities, and wider economic and social development stakeholders contributed to the 5 VET Inclusion Partnerships and Plans (IO1) downlaoded 663 times.
– 1636 members of staff of VET institutions, including managers, teachers and trainers, admissions, communications and support staff hvve used the self-assessment tool and open educational resources.
– 99 educators participated in pilot testing
– 828 educators downloaded the classroom course
– 242 representatives of stakeholder organizations participated in 6 multiplier events.
– 14,324 individuals have engaged with our outputs and digital materials via interactive website.

ACTIVITIES undertaken
IO1: Five regional partnership plans were produced and made available on the project website (www.inclusion.how). These were built on a robust evidence base. As part of IO1, 74 VET professionals across the five regions responded to a survey between November 2017 and February 2018 to assess their own experience and provide institutional perspective on the comparative value and practicality (cost-benefit) of known pedagogies, across five countries, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Turkey and UK. Partners also conducted a State of play study in the five participating countries to ascertain what has already been achieved, challenges and barriers faced by migrants and VET professionals.
IO2; An innovative SELF-ASSESSMENT SYSTEM for VET institutions was developmed to evaluate their current level of access and inclusion and generate a personalized learning path.
IO3: Five modules have been developed, pilot tested and made available in four langauges on the project website with the course achieving 828 downloads so far
IO4: The online course has been pilot tested and published on the learning platform.
Detailed pilot testing completed Offline Training Course (54 pilot testers) and Online Training Course (45 pilot testers)
Strong and consistent dissemination activity from the outset, The project logo and brand manual were created at the beginning of the project, as well as a dissemination strategy. A dissemination diary has been completed by each partner as a way of logging all dissemination activities, including their dissemination activities on their own website and social media channels, project newsletters, presentations and meetings. In total, this comes to 147 recorded dissseminatin actions over the 2 years reaching many thousands of targets. See dissemination report.
A sustainability strategy was developed to support the sustainability of project activities after the end of the project
Quality Management and Evaluation: An external evaluator was contracted to provide a final evaluation report for the project.
Partner meetings – 5 transnational partner meetings,regular Skype meetings, as well as quarterly partner surveys and progress reports

AIM is proving to make an impact through its relevance throughout Europe, but is gaining particular traction in regions experiencing, or expecting, very high inflows of migrants, which need a swifter process of integration into the VET sector and/or where national policy change is moving faster.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 258284 Eur

Project Coordinator

Go-Woman! Alliance Community Interest Company & Country: UK

Project Partners

• FOLKUNIVERSITETET STIFTELSEN VID LUNDS UNIVERSITET
• T.C. TUZLA KAYMAKAMLIGI
• Frontiera Lavoro
• European E-learning Institute
• MOMENTUM MARKETING SERVICES LIMITED