Literacy of migrants in their mother tongue to strengthen intercultural competences Erasmus Project

Project Title

Literacy of migrants in their mother tongue to strengthen intercultural competences

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: Migrants’ issues; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

Many migrants from Afghanistan not only want to improve their language skills in their new home country, but they also want their children to learn their mother tongue. Speaking often works well, but the biggest challenge is reading and writing. The proportion of migrants who speak the language of the host country at home is particularly high in Germany, Slovakia and other European countries. In Germany, 36% of migrants speak German at home. More than 25% of students in North Rhine-Westphalia have a migration background. In many regions, children can learn their mother tongue in so-called “language of origin classes”. Offers in Germany are available in Albanian, Bosnian, Farsi, Greek, Italian, Croatian, Kurdish, Polish, Portuguese, Romanesque and Turkish. Not in Pashto and often not in Dari. In some regions, children go to class in the mosque. There are hardly any offers for adults. Through the exchange of good practice, we would like to find ways to improve the offer to learn the mother tongue for adult migrants from Afghanistan. Four project meetings and one learning activity take place during the project. On the project website we also offer documents for download on Dari and Pashto. Another important point of our project is the establishment of a network.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 43535 Eur

Project Coordinator

Afghanic Information Center (Afghanic) e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Afghanska Föreningen i Örebro
• “Afghan Wolus” Kultur & Sportverein-Österreich
• Afghansk Kulturforening
• advisa WIRTSCHAFTSAKADEMIE E.V.