Improving Migrant Childrens’ Academic Performance Erasmus Project

Project Title

Improving Migrant Childrens’ Academic Performance

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Migrants’ issues; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The Improving Migrant Childrens’ Academic Performance, or IMCAP, project aims to bridge the gap between immigrant parents of school age children and their teachers. As per an OECD study conducted in 2015, academic underperformance is common to most students with an immigrant background, but particularly first-generation immigrant students. Students with an immigrant background face multiple sources of disadvantage that affect their academic performance and their general well-being. IMCAP thus focuses on improving the academic performance of an immigrant student. It involves 4 Partners in 4 European Countries who will bring their expertise together to create a platform to tackle the education gap and mismatches by strengthening the profiles of educators and teaching professionals.

In this context, the objectives of the project are as follows:
– To prepare teachers of school age children to work in a culturally diverse classroom and actively engage parents of different backgrounds in the education process
– To enable immigrant parents to engage more in the school system of the host country
– To create a set of tools that will facilitate the academic success of children of immigrant parents through the adults around them

IMCAP’s goal is to narrow the educational achievement gap between immigrant and non-immigrant peer. This will occur by targeting key stakeholders and assisting them with tools; a cultural handbook, a capacity-building booklet and an online networking platform. In a longer-term, the project will facilitate equal participation in society both economically and socially.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 153703 Eur

Project Coordinator

Eurospeak Language Schools Ltd & Country: UK

Project Partners

• CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD
• INDEPCIE SCA
• TOPCOACH SRO