Development and Implementation of Social – Science Training Program for Young Refugees Erasmus Project

Project Title

Development and Implementation of Social – Science Training Program for Young Refugees

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Integration of refugees; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Background of Project went back to 2015 as Syrian Refugee issue began to increasingly affected not only Turkey, but all Europe and the World. Then as an academic institution Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University (AYBÜ) academicians had felt responsibility to deal with the refugee issue.
Main idea of Project was to train experts with a specific training program about young refugees aged between 13-18 who did not have access in formal education. Thus the Science Training Program (STP) aimed to attract and stimulate the interests of Syrian youth towards science and education with an enjoyable methods through playing games and making conversations. Throughout the project, staff of our partners have been trained both as experts and trainers. AYBÜ-ULİSA directed all activities of Project while it led dissemination works under its main responsibility. AYBÜ-ULİSA has thus spent very extensive efforts by convening meetings for every week without interruption during two years period. Between 8 to 20 project partners’ staff participated in each TNM meetings and workshops according to necessities. About two thousand audiences joined projects’ dissemination activities and through media the project reached to many thousands

As for the main activities, Kick-off meeting held on 14-15 December 2017, in Ankara. Major aim was to inform partner organizations about their duties and responsibilities and to deal with the details of the project’s intellectual outputs, workshops, transnational meetings, multiplier events and budgetary issues. These all managed without problem. Then in the first workshop, held in e-Campus University, on 12-16 February 2018, in Italy, activities and performances of partner organizations were discussed and the results proved with fairly success. Then three prominent professors had given lectures about integration and education of refugees from the aspects of sociological, historical, pedagogical and legal points. The results helped to raise the quality of Project.
Second workshop held Germany on April 3-7, 2018. Meeting organized for planning work pack of STP and dissemination activities and strengthening for management, and so on. This meeting satisfactorily ended. Then second TNM held in Strasbourg, on June 24-27, 2018. Two crucial achievements were obtained: the first was the satisfactory results of evaluation form/survey conducted by ULİSA and USDAD in order to assess the performance and efficiency of project management; the second was the presentation of the project in a Conference in the Council of Europe, with all partners and it provided for the promotion of project’s objectives in Strasbourg to European statesman, media, and to wider communities. Evidences of these activities included in attachments. Third TNM held in Germany on 27-29 August, 2018. At this meeting, iserundschmidt introduced several experiments/games that were components of STP; Right-Challenge introduced four games and the way how to use them and e-Campus introduced some cartoons related to refugees and an e-learning platform that providing for a tool for trainers for transmitting knowledge to young refugees.

Third workshop held in Turkey on 5-7 December, 2018. First pilot field works regarding the implementation of STP was conducted in GAV’s place, Ankara. In addition to project partners 15 young Syrian refugees attended to the pilot implementation with age groups between 13-18 years. Then the informative media was introduced. On the last day of workshop, an International Symposium on Syrian Refugees was held. Also a Photograph Exhibition about Syrian Refugees was opened in partnership with GAV and with UN High Commissioner for Refugees which also was an extra contributory activity.

Last TNM held in Portugal on 1 May, 2019. Partners overviewed and evaluated all intellectual works of project and impressions and, experiences in the refugee camps and workshop in Kahramanmaraş were discussed. In short Iserundschmidt has successfully completed the STP with the contribution of all partners which trained young refugees in an attractive way and raised their desires towards science and education. Then brochures, CDs and special booklets were produced for dissemination. The STP was further tested in the field, in refugee camp in Kahramanmaraş on 5-6 March, 2019, in collaboration with GAV. On 7 March, 2019, further to test the practicability of final version of STP and to disseminate projects’ findings, an international workshop held in Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University. After then to further disseminate Project’s results; Project’s second intellectual output Informative Media consisted of a series of videos, brochures and a website was completed. In short it could be summarized that all targets of the project were successfully completed.

The ongoing international academic book, Informative Media consist of series of videos, brochures, printed booklets and the website all will ensure sustainability of Project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 228760,86 Eur

Project Coordinator

ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• iserundschmidt GmbH
• Goc Arastirmalari Vakfi
• COJEP International
• Tera Ankara Musavirlik Mimarlik Muhendislik Taahhut Ticaret Ltd Sti
• Rightchallenge – Associação
• USDAD
• UNIVERSITA TELEMATICA E-CAMPUS