ARTEM Erasmus Project

Project Title

ARTEM

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Migrants’ issues; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

The inclusion of non-native migrants from the European Union in European societies is an increasingly important issue, whereas nothing seems to promise a lull in the current waves of migration. The European Commission has made it a priority since 1999 and the program of the European Council of Tempere. In 2004, the Council of the European Union agreed on common basic principles for the integration of migrants. These give a preponderant role to the interaction between migrants and European citizens, with one constant: integration, as the first principle underlines, can only work if it is the result of a mutual dynamic process. This process involves a basic knowledge of the language, history, and of the functioning of the host countries.

Starting from the observation that the staff who accompany and help migrants are not always armed in terms of intercultural knowledge and skills, ARTEM seeks to develop an educational model in order to reinforce the intercultural skills of people who work, be they professionals or volunteers, in the local community to foster the inclusion of migrants in European local communities.

The project brings together an experienced partnership of 8 European organizations from France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Denmark. Together they develop a project whose pedagogical approach is based on the concepts of intercultural learning and experiential learning. In both active and non-formal approaches, these two approaches are reflected in ARTEM by 3 trainings, and an original peer-to-peer training system, the ARTEM experience system.

To achieve this, after an analysis of national situations, the project will develop intercultural training for migrants and their interlocutors on one hand, and training in digital storytelling on the other. The latter will allow migrants to present their background, their history and thus break stereotypes to help their inclusion in the host societies. This will also make evident they have experiences, skills, knowledges and could help to make them seem as ressources.
A platform will then be set up to support specific exchanges, a time-bank like system, that will organise meetings between locals and migrants. The ARTEM ACCESS web platform is an innovation that will foster exchanges between locals and migrants, exchanges based on the ARTEM of each ones.
The platform will also permit the creation of local groups in different countries and sustain the project objectives and its wider implementation and dissemination.

To ensure sustainability, the platform will remain open access a minimum of 2 years after the end of the project to allow use by all organizations wishing to reuse the ARTEM methodology. In the medium term, the aim is therefore to make this method accessible to all in order to contribute to the integration of refugees and asylum seekers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 214583 Eur

Project Coordinator

PISTES SOLIDAIRES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• REPLAY Network
• CATRO BULGARIA
• Accorderie Pau Béarn
• VEREIN MULTIKULTURELL
• ASOCIACION MUNDUS – UN MUNDO A TUS PIES
• KULTURNO IZOBRAZEVALNO DRUSTVO PINA
• Videnscenter for Integration