Fostering ‘Intercultural MEDiators’ as a practice for establishing communities coalition and mutual understanding Erasmus Project

Project Title

Fostering ‘Intercultural MEDiators’ as a practice for establishing communities coalition and mutual understanding

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Migrants’ issues; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

TheInterMEDs -Fostering ‘Intercultural MEDiators’ as a practice for establishing communities coalition and mutual understanding is built on the special training of members of both communities, either local ones, or migrant communities to be these InterMEDs, the individuals who will act as specific intermediators between the exchange of different cultures, with the key-skills of social responsibility and intercultural understanding and the skills to use all forms of promotion, such as arts, culture, media, training for the enhancement of respect, tolerance, cooperation and communities coalition.
The project includes 8 partners (PESHKAR, OTB EUROPE, PANTEION, CAMINOS, Mindshift, CSI, XPCSA, CID) from 6countries (UK, Portugal, Greece, Spain, Cyprus, North Macedonia) and it targetsa) members, leaders or representatives of local communities, NGOs, Civil Society Associations, Associations of Immigrants/Refugees, organizations supporting the inclusion, the integration practices, the human rights, the intercultural exchange, b) public bodies staff and public servants-administrative staff in relative positions who are in need to acquire all these intercultural skills, necessary for the daily contact with different cultural background citizens.
The InterMEDs addresses the objectives:
a) to empower through training and specific tools society members as intercultural mediators-experts who will undertake the responsibility of improving understanding and cooperation among communities and their members; these intercultural mediators will contribute in the practical coalition of culturally different populations, conflict resolutions, intolerance and discrimination combat
b) to recruit in their training beyond the traditional materials, other means, too, such as the common arts values, the traditions, the Media
c) to involve in this procedure members of both communities and give the chance particularly to youth and women of these local communities to be in the leading
d) To take advantage of the opportunities offered by ICT and digitize the quality of learning content
e) To create and deliver innovative products and trainingtools- as tailored needs learning resources – based on differentiation methodologies and adult education approaches
The activities include respective intellectual outputs and multipliers events (National Seminars/Workshops, Final Conference); the InterMEDs IOs comprise of the Review Paper on Context (IO1), the Intermediators Curriculum (IO2), the Digital Toolbox & Resources (IO3), the Methodological Guide for Educators (IO4) and the Policy Book (IO5).
Last, it is expected that through the targeted actions there will be a significant positive changein the overall social cohesion in local, national and EU context, in regards with tolerance and inclusion promotion, mutual understanding and communities coalition, through intercultural exchange, respect and intermediators activation.  

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 268772 Eur

Project Coordinator

PESHKAR PRODUCTIONS LIMITED & Country: UK

Project Partners

• CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD
• Xenios Polis. Culture, Science and Action
• OTB Europe
• Mindshift Talent Advisory lda
• ASOCIACION CAMINOS – ASOCIACION PARA EL INTERCAMBIO EDUCACION Y DESARROLLO SOCIAL
• PANTEIO PANEPISTIMIO KOINONIKON KAI POLITIKON EPISTIMON
• CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE ASSOCIATION