Information and Educational Materials for Refugees and Immigrants Erasmus Project

Project Title

Information and Educational Materials for Refugees and Immigrants

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; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Europe is nowadays undergoing one of the biggest migratory crises in history. Millions of people are forced to leave their homes in search of better and safer places to live. At the same time, the great economic crisis that is affecting some European countries is forcing many people to face great difficulties when it comes to finding a job and making a living. This critical situation is leading to serious social conflicts and makes coexistence difficult. For this reason, this project has had a threefold objective. On the one hand, we have contributed to the integration of refugees and immigrants by creating an information and educational material that will facilitate the access to the resources available in our cities and to our languages. On the other hand, by creating this material, our national students have been able to put themselves in the shoes of these people and have understood the difficulties they have to face. In addition, when creating the material, students themselves have had the opportunity to get to know resources in their city that they previously did not know and have learned how to present them using digital tools such as infographics, digital magazines, video editors, etc. which, in the long run, will contribute to their incorporation to the Labour Market. In addition, the use of innovative methodologies has contributed to increase the motivation of both students and teachers.
The participants were four institutions, all of them dedicated to Adult Education, but different from each other, which has contributed significantly to the enrichment of the entire process. CEPA “Abril” (Spain), CPIA1 Brescia (Italy) and Vilnius Adult Education Center (Lithuania) are centers that provide formal and non-formal adult education to both national and immigrant students. Mācību Centrs “EVA-93” (Latvia), however, is a center that offers training on Occupational Risk Prevention to companies with immigrant workers, so it is the teachers who move to factories and workplaces.
For the implementation of this project we have carried out a process in four stages:
The first one has been an Awareness Campaign to make our students and users understand the situation of people who have to leave their homes for reasons such as hunger, misery,war, unemployment, etc. In this stage we could have the collaboration of local and national NGOs and other people involved in the defense of the rights of refugees and immigrants.
The second stage has been aimed at the creation of digital information and educational material that will contribute to the insertion of migrants and refugees in our cities. The material created varies according to the needs and expertise of each institution. In CEPA “Abril” (Spain) a digital material has been created that aims to serve as a guide to access services such as Public Health, Transport, Education, the Labour Market, Culture, etc. and to facilitate the learning of the language to those who need it. In the Italian and Lithuanian institutions (CPIA1 Brescia and Vilnius Adult Education Center), students have created a set of didactic units to learn the language focusing on a series of videos in which they themselves represent basic communication situations. These videos are also accompanied by exercises to practice the contents presented. In the Latvian centre (Mācību Centrs “EVA-93”), on the other hand, an audiovisual material has been produced whose objective is to teach basic security measures to immigrant workers who still do not know the language. This material focuses primarily on the use of images to carry out the learning process, leaving the language aside.
At the end of this phase, three joint training events have been held in the form of transnational workshops where each centre has shown the others the material developed and has taught them the techniques used.
In the third stage, the development of informative and educational material has continued, but this time incorporating the methods learned from the other project partners.
Finally, the fourth stage has been aimed at disseminating the material, which has been stored in blogs and web pages so that it can be used by both immigrants and NGOs that are responsible for their integration.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 62770 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEPA “Abril” & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Macibu centrs “EVA-93”
• Vilnius Adult Education Centre
• CPIA 1 BRESCIA