Integration verbindet Menschen – länderübergreifender Austausch von Basiswissen Erasmus Project

Project Title

Integration verbindet Menschen – länderübergreifender Austausch von Basiswissen

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; Access for disadvantaged; Romas and/or other minorities

Project Summary

The basis of the project was the situation of refugees and other socially marginalized groups in the various partner countries of the project. The assessment and evaluation in the different countries varied. The social scale ranged from understanding to majority rejection and political divisions.
The goal of the project was to analyze the situation which is manifested in the participating countries and to develop action guidelines for integration aid for the respective country. Based on the situation of integration of refugees it became clear, that in different member countries of the European Union the problem of social integration is handled in different ways. This also affects social work with marginalized groups in society. The situation in Greece, for example, is handled very differently from the way it is treated in the Czech Republic. The European Union member countries Czech Republic, Greece and Germany were involved in this project.
These were the three organizations:
GefAS e.V. – The coordinator – is a non-profit making charitable association, which has been active in various social areas since 1991. GefAS operates refugee lodgings, and transition dorms in the German district Landkreis Oder-Spree in the federal state Brandenburg. In the year 2017, GefAS received the “Brandenburg Integration Award” for its job-related integration project in Fürstenwalde.
D.R.A.K. z.s. – was founded in the year 2003. It is an organization for people, who are in a difficult life situation. They had a physically disabled child or had their own handicap of their own. The social services are officially registered services at the Ministry of social Affairs. Especially Sinti and Roma belong to the socially marginalized groups in the Czech Republic.
Hel.S.S.A. is an NGO without profit. They work charitably, generously and beneficently (Law 784). The founders of the organization had worked on international educational projects before They also commit their work to traumatized arriving refugees.
The project partners each had their own main points:
The Czech partner focused on the integration of Sinti and Roma, the German partner focused on the social and job-related integration of refugees and the Greek partner focused on social work with traumatized arriving refugees and the gaining of volunteer helpers.
Integration accompanists and observers, which worked with refugee and marginalized groups in the partner countries, were trained in order to fulfill the objectives of the project.
Every participating organization organized seminars in their own country, in order to prepare the integration supervisors to do volunteer work with these social marginal groups.
Six transnational project meetings were held throughout the project to foster an innovative European exchange.
During the three joint short-term training courses, the foundations were laid to work out guidelines for the integration supervisors in the respective facilities.
These were the project results and effects: Guidelines for action were developed, more understanding of the social situation of the partner countries, dismantling of prejudices against the social marginalized groups, acquisition of integration supporters, the development of social networks at local and regional level or extension of the previous network work and an agreement on further consistent joint work
The guidelines developed are available on the homepage of the coordinator and the Erasmus + Project Results Platform. They are used in the participating institutions and updated if necessary.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 87865 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gesellschaft für Arbeit und Soziales (GefAS) e. V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Hellenic Social Supporting Association
• Bürgerverein D.R.A.K. z.s.