GET START: challenges always come before solutions Erasmus Project

Project Title

GET START: challenges always come before solutions

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Integration of refugees; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

Get Start! focused on two concepts: to make a reflection about the refugees’ crisis and humanitarian issues challenging EU and to improve the critical thinking of the participants.
The participants involved in the project are staff members of partners organizations and have in common the fact that they all have experienc in providing a set of services to refugees and asylum seekers (psychologists, case-workers, social workers, etc.).
The idea of the project is to create a dynamic learning community to share best practices and reflect together on the ongoing humanitarian issues, improving the level of key competences and skills of the participants in a non-formal educational experience, developing and reinforcing networks, increasing their capacity to operate at transnational level in the field of refugees. In fact the project focused on problems and opportunities arising from refugee/migration locally and finally compared them with colleagues from other MS to upscale them at EU level, resulting in the transfer and/or implementation of innovative and best practices.
Get Start! involved 4 partners:
Applicant: GUS, founded in 1993, is a non-profit organization. Main goals: protecting human rights, fostering respect for cultures and humanitarian aid. GUS main mission is to support refugees and asylum seekers promoting social inclusion and a mutual understandng culture. GUS is actively engaged in planning, coordination and management of integrated interventions for the protection, reception and integration of refugees and asylum seekers.
Partner: ANTIGONE is a nonprofit organization, established in 1993 and headquartered in Thessaloniki (Greece). It develops activities related to issues of anti-racism, non-discrimination, human-rights, social ecology, peace and non-violent conflict resolution.
Partner: Eskisehir AFAD, a public body, is regional organization of The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority of Turkey (AFAD) in Eskisehir city. The agency currently runs a network of 26 state-of-the-art refugee camps where over 260.000 people enjoy regular access to housing, healthcare, education and psychological support. Eskisehir AFAD, in particular, is legally responsible for coordinating services for refugees living in Eskisehir.
Partner: GUS ALBANIA is a non-profit organization and it was founded in 2015 by a group of people working voluntarily, as they continuing to do. The main goals of GUS Albania are: protecting human rights, increasing public awareness on human rights in the context of democratic development in Albania fostering the integration of the Albanian society in the eu by activating programs and projects which help to meet the European criteria.
Activities:
The participants travelled in the partner’s countries to participate to 3 short-term activities to improve achievement in relevant basic and transversal competences in a lifelong learning perspective, through non-formal education.
The project consisted of:
– 1 Transnational Project Meetings. 2 representative per organization partecipated in a 2 days kick off meeting held in Macerata in february 2017.
– 1st short term Mobility Session (Venue Thessaloniki, Greece – Start Date 22/05/2017 End date 26/05/2017 – Participants: 29 people)
– 2nd short term Mobility Session (Venue Tirana, Albania- Start Date 22/10/2017 End date 27/10/2017 – Participants: 29 people)
– 3th short term Mobility Session (Venue Lecce, Italy- Start Date 07.05.2018 Start Date 11.05.2018 – Participants: 26 people)
– 1 final/dissemination activity held in Lecce, involving key players and stakeholders to reinforce networks
All the activities have been carried out with interactive methods, promoting constant interaction and feedback, involvement of participants and looking for decisions.
Participating from Italy, Turkey and Greece had the chance to exchange the best experiences and practices better adapting to the contexts of the countries they operate in. Experts, involved in each mobility, analysed then the latest developments addressing the challenges and future potential issues. The work organized in this way permitted to obtain the following results (allowing that the impact of the project appear not just during the project but also to continue after that the project has ended):
– participants skills, key competences and professionalism to work at EU level in the field of refugee/migration enhanced.
– practices for more effective reception and integration refugees internal policies strengthed.
– cross-sectoral and multiprofessional cooperation improved
– got the maximum involvement of the stakeholders and key players present in each partner’s reference areas ensuring a wide participation and dialogue.
– good practices and new methods in reception and integration policies among the partnership (like the ethnopsychological approach) integrated.
– mechanism, procedures of working and coordination in a transnational partnership developed

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 77875 Eur

Project Coordinator

GRUPPO UMANA SOLIDARIETA’ GUIDO PULETTI & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ANTIGONE KENTRO PLIROFORISIS KAI TEKMIRIOSIS GIA TO RATSISMO TIN OIKOLOGIA TIN EIRINI KAI TI MI NIA ASTIKI ETAIRIA
• GUS Albania
• ESKISEHIR IL AFET VE ACIL DURUM MUDURLUGU (ESKISEHIR AFAD)