InclusionApp: Enhancing social inclusion of Refugees, Immigrants and Asylum Seekers through a mobile app Erasmus Project

Project Title

InclusionApp: Enhancing social inclusion of Refugees, Immigrants and Asylum Seekers through a mobile app

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Integration of refugees; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

CONTEXT
According to Common Basic Principles/EU initiatives in the field of integration, “Basic knowledge of the host society’s language, history, and institutions is indispensable to integration; enabling immigrants to acquire this basic knowledge is essential to successful integration” and “Efforts in education are critical to preparing immigrants, and particularly their descendants, to be more successful and more active participants in society”. The Erasmus+ Program aims at promoting equity and inclusion by facilitating the access to learners with disadvantaged backgrounds and fewer opportunities compared to their peers, “.https://ec.europa.eu/migrant-integration/the-eu-and- integration/eu-actions-to-make-integration-work The educational tracks of those who receive residence permits should be expedited by lowering the threshold for integration training and the training following it. “(quote from the report ” The educational tracks and integration of immigrants – problematic areas and proposals for actions”)

PROJECT OBJECTIVES
The main goal of the project InclusionApp is to help RI&AS (refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers) learn the language & the culture of the host country through a mobile serious game and ood practices against social exclusion through a a Collaborative e-learning platform.
Specifically the aims of the project are twofold:
(a) The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Mobile Serious Game for learning the language & the culture of the host country (InclusionApp mobile game) for RI&AS
(b) The creation of a Collaborative e-learning portal with good practices against social exclusion of RI&AS.

SERIOUS GAME EVALUATION
Once the software development is finished we will run a large scale trial in which we will involve at least 200 RI&AS (refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers) and observe their learning success and most important their inclusion in the host country with the help of our mobile serious game. We will then finilize our mobile game and share it on an EU-wide scale. Scientific publications will be published to renowned international scientific journals & conferences with the results of the evaluation.

The OPEN SOURCE ACCESS to all project outputs will be guaranteed for at least 5 years after project end.

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS
This initiative gathers 5 partners from Poland, Cyprus, Italy, UK and Greece.
WYZSZA SZKOLA EKONOMII I INNOWACJI W LUBLINIE (Poland): University of Economics and Innovation in Lublin (WSEI) is a non-state higher education institution, funded in 2001.
Welcome Home International (Belgium): Non-profit organisation providing encouragement, education, and assistance to refugees during their integration.
INNOVATION FRONTIERS (Greece): An educational technology & research company expert in the design, implementation and evaluation of educational software.
Eurospeak Language Schools Ltd (UK): A private English language school, accredited by the British Council, Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) and are a UKVI licensed Tier 2 General and Tier 4 General of the points based system.
Tropicalastral Lda (Portugal): A private adult education provider and translation company, focused mainly on corporate clients in the Algarve area providing private executive business language lessons.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 206535 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szczecinska Szkola Wyzsza Collegium Balticum & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Eurospeak Language Schools Ltd
• Innovation Frontiers IKE
• TropicalAstral Lda
• Welcome Home International