All In: Effective Linguistic and Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

All In: Effective Linguistic and Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Migrants’ issues; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

In 2017, the EU was home to 21.6 million third-country nationals, accounting for 4.2% of the total population. Migrants (and refugees), either from EU countries or from outside the EU, actively contribute to the economic, social and cultural development of European societies. The successful integration of migrants into society in the host country is the key to maximising the opportunities of legal migration and making the most of the contributions that immigrants and refugees can make to EU development, as stated by the European Commission’s Migration and Home Affairs.

Action Plan on the Integration of Third Country Nationals (2016) provides a framework to support national policies and describes concrete measures for the Commission. One of the key actions is ‘Education, including actions to promote language training, teacher training and civic education’.

The legislation and policies are constantly being improved, and their importance has been clear since a couple of decades. However, different studies carried in the EU (OECD) throughout the years show a more negative reality when it comes to actual integration.

According to the Results of special Eurobarometer on integration of immigrants in the European Union:
‘’Just over half (54%) of Europeans think that integration of immigrants is successful […] Europeans tend to agree on the main factors that may facilitate or prevent integration of immigrants as well as policy measures that would support it such as offering language courses upon arrival (88%), improving integration programmes (85%) […] Europeans say that integrating immigrants is a necessary investment in the long-run for their country and similar proportion view integration as a two way process in which both host societies and immigrants are responsible.’’

Our objective is to help bridge this gap between what the policies read and promise and the reality of what is happening. We offer a solution to a widespread problem where we look at the role of both sides and where the end results will also benefit both of them; SOCIAL INCLUSION

There will be 6 participating partners on the project, coming from 5 different European countries. These partners will bring a mix of expertise and backgrounds in language and culture teaching, development of training material, teacher training, immigration and refugee educational programmes, intercultural and communication competences, emotional intelligence and further soft skills. Some partners have a vast experience in Erasmus+ projects, where only 2 are fairly new and will, thus, shed a different light upon the project.

The ALL IN project will produce 3 Intellectual Outputs:
– TRAIN THE L2 TRAINER: a 20 pill training course where language and culture teachers will learn about strategies of how to successfully implement soft skills such as rapport creation and empathy into their lessons and take full potential of both the language lessons as well as adult students to reach SOCIAL INCLUSION
– ALL IN MANUAL: a manual that will not only help language teachers but also other stakeholders involved to enhance the effectiveness of language and culture programmes for immigrants and refugees. It will also include 20 practical activities & tools that can be used in the inclusion process and will also actively involve members of the host society.
– TRUE STORIES: we live in visual world. Many people only believe things if they see and hear them from their peers. We will therefore create a Youtube documentary series of 24 episodes, where immigrants and refugees, as well as members of the host society, can talk about both successful stories as well as stories of those who are still working on their social inclusion. The aim of this IO is the uptaking of language and culture programmes by low linguistically skilled immigrant adults as well as the tackling of discrimination and putting a hold of fake news.

These outputs are the core of the project and will be developed in cooperation between all the consortium’s partners in 3 stages. Each output will be thoroughly tested before completion to ensure the durability and impact of the ALL IN project.

All outputs produced will be freely accessible for the public within and beyond the project’s lifetime.

The ALL IN project is likely to have sustainable direct impacts within and beyond the project lifetime on four main target groups:
1) Language and culture teachers.
2) Immigrant and refugee language and culture students in the process of integration.
3) Institutions that offer language and training courses to adult immigrants and refugees.
4) Members of the host society.

By creating training tools, a manual as well as the practical tool & activity kit for language teachers, teacher trainers and academic managers and a documentary series, the consortium expects to achieve the overall objective of the project and a long term benefit for European Society: EFFECTIVE SOCIAL INCLUSION.

Project Website

http://www.allinproject.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 258737,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kirchner Management GmbH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• VEREIN MULTIKULTURELL
• FORMACION PARA EL DESARROLLO E INSERCION, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
• SWIDEAS AB
• CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE TIMISOARA ASOCIATIA
• Babel Idioma y Cultura S.L.
• GROWTH COOP S.COOP.AND
• Compass – Beratung, Begleitung und Training Gemeinnützige GmbH