Education for Deeper Social Integration Erasmus Project

Project Title

Education for Deeper Social Integration

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: Integration of refugees; Inclusion – equity; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

With the project “Education for Deeper Social Integration” (EDSI) we established a strong international network of institutions dealing with education of adults, especially those, who belong to vulnerable groups. The main tasks of the project were the international training activities for educators coming from partner organisations and researching good practices in related to integration and education of adults with fewer opportunities. Through realising these two fundaments the project also achieved a positive impact on the end beneficiaries, adults with fewer opportunities, and on the capacities of partner organisations. The approaches and strategies to addressing the refugee crisis and integration of vulnerable persons differ throughout Europe and it is very relevant to explore the best practices and the possibilities of their transfer to new local environments. The result of this was the collection of good practices, which is freely available. In the project we included educational staff with existing experience from partner organisations in international training activities, which addressed their knowledge and competences related to educating refugees and other vulnerable groups and their integration into wider society and the labor market. With this in mind we formed a partnership, which included organisations actively working with vulnerable groups, especially persons with international protection, and having strong local, national and international networks, through which we enabled the cooperation of outside experts.
68 educators, coming from Slovenia, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, the Czech Republic, Spain and the United Kingdom, working with refugees and other vulnerable groups attended the 5 international activities. These were based on non-formal education methods, flexible educational modules, ICT and a considerable amount of field work and meetings with local stakeholders. The programme of these international activities was supplemented with dissemination events, which included round tables, exhibitions, concerts, press conferences and workshops.
By implementing EDSI we:
– increased the capacities of organisations, which are educating adults with international protection and other vulnerable groups;
– developed the competences, knowledge, linguistic and soft skills of educational staff, who work with adults with fewer opportunities, and thus the project positively influenced the results educational processes in their home organisations;
– collected and explored examples of good and innovative practices and methods and analysed the potential of their transfer into new local environments; shared these results in a wider circle of stakeholders on local, national and international levels;
– instituted a lasting international network of organisations, which are focused on adult education and vulnerable groups, and used this network for developing and implementing new projects and initiatives building on EDSI
-fostered intersectional and interdisciplinary cooperation
– fostered intercultural dialogue, the understanding of differences and the fight against discrimination and radicalisation in all social spheres.
The project was an important contribution to the development of the capacities of all partner organisations and increased the international dimension of their work. Through the preparation of the collection of good practices and its’ presentations we also acquainted them with good practices, which were implemented in the fields in which the partners are active, and also presented the context of their development and possibilities of their transfer. The collection of good practices addresses the issues, which the partner organisations, and others in the field, face in their daily work and also presents the possible solutions to them. This result was not limited only to consortium members. It was disseminated to other actors in the field and also presented to them during the field work part of international activities. Besides this tangible result the project through international activities and cultural and educational events also contributed to intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, easier integration of refugees and an increase in understanding differences between different social groups.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 106525,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

ZNANSTVENO-RAZISKOVALNO ZDRUZENJE ZA UMETNOST, KULTURNE IN IZOBRAZEVALNE PROGRAME IN TEHNOLOGIJO EPEKA, SOCIALNO PODJETJE & Country: SI

Project Partners

• IASIS
• EVROPSKE CENTRUM MLADEZE BRECLAV EUROPEAN YOUTH CENTRE BRECLAV Z. S.
• SOLIDARIDAD SIN FRONTERAS
• REGIONAL CLUSTER NORTH-EAST
• Cumbria Credits Limited
• PROMETEO