LET’S GO – FROM ASSIMILATION TO CULTURAL INTEGRATION IN FOUR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Erasmus Project

Project Title

LET’S GO – FROM ASSIMILATION TO CULTURAL INTEGRATION IN FOUR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Integration of refugees; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The project is aimed at Youth Workers of 4 European countries: Italy, Spain, UK and Netherlands.
The migratory phenomenon amplifies in the local communities common feelings dictated by the emergency, the fear, the insecurity and the problems of cohabitation. At the same time the lack of effective responses to the social integration needs of the immigrant person leads to phenomena of radicalization of cultural identities.
The experts must be able to manage the cultural, ethnic and religious differences, to stimulate intercultural understanding that facilitates human relations, tolerance, mutual cooperation and promotes the richness that diversity brings to the citizens.
Youth workers have a strategic role in creating concrete spaces for contact, exchange and sharing with young immigrants.
They help young migrants to understand and participate in their new social, economic and cultural environment and to integrate fully into society.
The aim of the project is to devise, implement, test and disseminate an educational opportunity -ONLINE COURSE able to increase the knowledge, skills, intercultural and transcultural practices of the Youth Workers in Italy, Spain, UK and the Netherlands. They will make it possible to conveniently use the cultural differentials expressed by young migrants / immigrants and encourage their integration process in the host / adoption country.
The goal responds to the following NEEDS:
– to improve the quality of youth work
– to develop and facilitate the training of first-line workers working with migrant / immigrant groups to improve understanding of the migration process
– to provide youth workers with an educational opportunity to help them perform their jobs better
– to improve their curricula
– To face the problem of the integration of young migrants / immigrants
– to replace a greater understanding of social diversity, linguistic and cultural ethics
-to increase knowledge, sharing and respect for European values on: human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities
NUMBER AND PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPANTS
The project involves, in the various project activities, 400 Youth Workers (Public Employees of Municipal Administrations, Hospitals, UTG, Asp, Courts, Figures of the third sector such as: reception operators, social workers, intercultural mediators, legal operators, educators, psychologists) who work in contact with migrants / immigrants.
ACTIVITY
Based on the analysis of the training needs of Youth Workers in an ethno-psychological and anthropological key, the project creates, implements and tests an on-line course on e-learning platform. The 60-hour online course will be structured in 4 training modules: 1. SOCIAL DIMENSION, 2 ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSION, 3 PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION, 4TEST.
The online course will be in Italian and translated into the languages of the Spanish, English and Dutch project partner countries.
The IO is aimed at increasing the knowledge, skills, intercultural and transcultural practices of the Youth Workers to facilitate the social and cultural integration of migrants / immigrants.
The course will be supported by the Methodological Guide written in Italian which includes the methodology, content, style of the online training course, the results achieved (improvements of the skills of the youth workers) and the modality. The guide will be translated into SP, UK, NL It is available on the platform, on the project website and on the project partners’ websites.
RESULTS/IMPACT
-Development of a European framework of the Youth Workers training needs to overcome the critical nodes of the cultural assimilation policies of migrants / immigrants in the territories hosted / adopted
– An intellectual product (online course) that can be used internationally because it is implemented and shared in 4 languages,
– Open source E-learning platform
-A methodological guide that includes methodology, contents, style of the online training course, results to be achieved (improvement of the skills of the youth workers)
-Creation of a network of links between the subjects (public and third sector operators) offering services to immigrants / migrants
– Strengthening the knowledge and skills of the YW in promoting the integration of the culture of interreligious and intercultural dialogue.
– Development of Curricula
-Development of the critical sense of the YW, based on knowledge and not based on prejudices and stereotypes
– Increase in the integration of asylum seekers / immigrant/ migrants in Europe
– Dissemination of European values and principles
PARTNERS of the project, CSpE Applicant, Integra, LPA and Adam’mob firmly believe that the proposed approach and working method will be a relevant opportunity for all YWs to better prepare themselves and face the continuous changes in forced migration.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 119510 Eur

Project Coordinator

COOPERAZIONE SUD PER L’EUROPA-SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• LONDON PLACEMENT ACADEMY LIMITED
• ASOCIACION CULTURAL INTEGRA
• Stichting Amsterdam European Mobility