European Values of social Life and Vocational Integration Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Values of social Life and Vocational 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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

CONTEXT
Europe is facing difficulties in integrating the migrants as the differences of values and culture make it difficult for migrants to find a job or integrate themselves in social life. The EVOLVE project highlighted the need for promoting European values and creating a shared perspective to resolve this issue and facilitate a more harmonious integration.

OBJECTIVES
The objective was to develop an innovative and inclusive training program for migrants, using a digital platform for learning European Values via APPs. In view to the blended learning process, our objective was to organise Exposure Visits for social inclusion and Job-Shadowing in European organizations for migrants.

ACTIVITIES
In the initial phase of EVOLVE project, a survey for comparative analysis of cross-cultural European values in all partner countries was conducted. This guided the development and implementation of the ‚Values Navigator‘ digital training platform for learning European Values via APPs in 5 languages. The development of European values curriculum matrix facilitated the development of 40 APPs, 28 APPs for training and two sets of 6 APPs each each for evaluation. In the pilot training in all partner countries, using blended learning, exposure visits for social inclusion and job-shadowing in European organizations were organized for migrants. The trainees had an opportunity to provide their feedback after each training activity. A peer-learning articulate storyboard had to be implemented with some deviation in accordance with the European GDPR law as several trainees did not wish to be photographed or filmed. The implementation of pilot training contributed towards developing a methodological guidelines. In the interest of the VET trainers and organisations, a pedagogical handbook was created to support the interested stakeholders. The APPs on the ‚Values Navigator‘ digital training platform, the methodological guidelines and the pedagogical handbook were translated from English to all partner languages. In the last phase, a final dissemination conference was organized in Belgium to facilitate national and European dissemination of EVOLVE results. Apart from the development of above intellectual outputs and dissemination materials, an effective project management was ensured throughout the project cycle. Monitoring was done to ensure timely implementation and a quality evaluation was conducted before each transnational partner meeting.

RESULTS
The following intellectual outputs and results created during the project EVOLVE implementation have been uploaded in all language versions on the Erasmus results platform.
– a survey for comparative analysis of cross-cultural European values was conducted in all partner countries and compiled as a report.
– development of the ‚Values Navigator‘ digital training platform for learning European Values via APPs in 5 languages.
– two animation videos in 5 languages to explain the project and the use of gamification in APPs based blended learning.
– a compiled report about the exposure visits to museums and social activities.
– a summary report about job-shadowing for migrants.
– a methodological guideline in 5 languages
– a Training Manual for VET trainers in 5 languages
– a pictogram in 5 languages as well as video for audio-visual documentation
– several marketing/dissemination materials, including 4 newsletters, posters, information broschure, etc in 5 languages

IMPACT
The EVOLVE trainees were non-European migrants who emigrated to one of the partner countries, predominantly young men and women from third countries. Most of them were already in integration process and their fluency in host language was minimum EQF level A2. For each activity, up to 20 participants were involved in each partner country, with a total of approximately 100 participants. Apart from VET trainers involved in the pilot training, we followed a green-channel approach for the interested VET trainers in all partner countries. Through the active dissemination over social media and email lists for distribution of all four newsletters in respective partner languages, we reached about 500 VET trainers, training organisations and diverse Stakeholders. We anticipate an indirect impact even after the end of the project on approx. 100 Migrants and approx. 50 VET trainers in all partner countries in view to the interest created through the dissemination process and access to training platform.
The highlight was the final dissemination conference in Belgium where around 20 participants from VET organisations, official representatives of private sector and policy makers learnt about the project results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 181434,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

LE MONDE DES POSSIBLES ASBL & Country: BE

Project Partners

• PARAGON LIMITED
• TRENNER INGRID
• INSTITUTO PARA EL FOMENTO DEL DESARROLLO Y LA FORMACION SL
• Stiftelsen Mangfold i arbeidslivet (MiA)