Adult Migrant Integration Experts Erasmus Project

Project Title

Adult Migrant Integration Experts

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Migrants’ issues; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The background of the ADMIRE project relies upon the realization that successful integration of migrant communities into civic and political life is essential for a cohesive and inclusive society in Europe to be achieved. To this end, the project has developed a training program to harness the skills of migrant community experts in the areas of Information Gap, Network Gap, Political Socialisation and Voter Motivation.

The reason for the aforementioned choices is that the ADMIRE project consortium believes that it is on the adult education sector and migrant support NGOs where the real onus for integration lies. ADMIRE partners are convinced that men and women drawn from the migrant communities themselves, appropriately trained and supported, are a considerable asset to support the work of existing service providers to foster the integration of migrant communities in civic and political life. With this in mind, the new curriculum intervention has provided members of the migrant community the opportunity to participate in the training to be provided. Migrant communities rely heavily on technology and social media as communication channels with distant friends and relations. They also display a high level of dependence on the Internet and social media channels as information sources.

The project’s objectives were the following:

1. The development of a Migrant Integration Expert Curriculum
2. The production of a digital toolbox relating to the curriculum
3. The on-line platform with the curriculum and the digital resources
4. The on-line political observatory with information regarding each partner country’s political system
5. The scientific paper with the corresponding policy guidelines

Each of the above objectives corresponded to an Intellectual Outpout and were fully achieved. The whole material was translated in all partner languages. The project also included an ex ante and ex post internal evaluation conducted by an academic faculty member.

The project consortium consisted of the following partners:

-The University of the Peloponnese, Greece as the project leader, through the Department of Social and Education Policy

– Coopérative d’Activité et d’Emploi dans les Services A la Personne et la Silver Economie (CDE-SAP) from France

– Meath Partnership, an NGO from Ireland

– The European Learning Center (ELC) , an adult education center from Spain

– Oxfam Italia, an NGO from Italy

– The Center for Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology (CARDET), a research center from Cyprus

The ADMIRE project was disseminated into an wide range of audiences. As the project progressed and the migration issue became a regular topic of discussion in public discourse, external audiences became cognizant of the project.

These include:
– adult trainers and educators,
-migrant support workers,
-representatives of organizations working with migrants,
-local community members,
-expert and professionals,
-academic researchers,
-policy makers at all levels,
-NGOs’ staff,
-school units and teachers,
-civil society practitioners,
-asylum seekers,
-stakeholders,
-disadvantaged persons,
-interested individuals as well as the wider public.

Finally, the project’s impact is evident by the audiences reached (1070 users in the website so far from 10 countries) as well as by the
– Interest generated by the Regional Authorities of the Peloponnese, Greece regarding methods to address migration issues
– Enrichment of existing post graduate curricula at the University of the Peloponnese with elements from the developed material
– Improvement of adult education training material
– Helping (directly or indirectly) asylum seekers, disadvantaged persons and vulnerable individuals in general

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 189648,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE & Country: EL

Project Partners

• OXFAM ITALIA INTERCULTURA SOCIETA’COOPERATIVA SOCIALE DI TIPO A ONLUS
• MEATH COMMUNITY RURAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP LIMITED
• Coopérative d’Activité et d’Emploi dans les Services A la Personne et la Silver Economie
• CENTRE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LTD-CARDET
• European Learning Centre