Participation of Refugees into Social Life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Participation of Refugees into Social Life

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Many people flee from their countries and refuging to other countries because of the problems such as civil war, economical problems and their sexual orientation. These fugitive people face by many difficulties during the compulsory migration. Besides health,education, accomodation and safety problems they also face by the problems of cultural differences. These people’s traditions and life styles are very different from the country’s cultural values which they refuged. Because of this, a lot of problems are seen during the integration periods.The other problem ;refugees face by is the prejudices of the refuged country’s people. Our main objectives we set in line with these issues were;
-It was specified and worked on issues related to refugees and asylum-seekers in Project partner countries to help understand the settlement and integration processes and models of good practice.

– public was enlightened and provided support with the purpose of better understanding of these issues and produced solutions to problems, by using social media and communication instruments

– awareness and sensitivity were created in society related to refugees and asylum seekers to improve cohesion in host communities

– countries practices were examined around ending support for asylum seekers whose claims had been fully refused until they could either submitted further evidence of their case, signed for voluntary return or was forcibly removed from the partner country.

– the individuals were helped to understand the traditions and the values of the society they live in and provide them an opportunity to present their own

– all the participants’ national identity and historical, cultural and natural heritage promoting the knowledge of the regions of partner countries and of the refugees were shared

– the skills of the participants were developed: adults, learners to use ICT and convinced them of the opportunities created by the use of new technologies

We were 7 NGOs who constituted the base of the project was going to study on these issues. Project coordinator USED(Turkey) has been working in the field of art education. USED provided support to refugees who wanted to study related to art in association by creating appropriate working environment. EDInet is a Scottish-based social enterprise providing expert advice in strategy development, strategic planning, consulting, recruitment, policy, funding, training and evaluation for organisations in the public, private and third sectors. SECURIO’s general context is to be determined as relations development between European organisations active in cultural, educative and R&D domains. Specifically SECURIO is also promoting the use of the Internet as a world wide communication tool, especially for Intercultural events within the European Community and hence in the European Union.DEMÀ works in several areas in adult education, particularly in the field of labour and social integration, training for trainers; development of active citizenship, pedagogical and methodological research, etc. Arte-Via Cooperative is organising events such as readers communities, international seminars, writing contests, art exhibitions and multimedia performances. PROMIDEA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE(Italy) is experted about social inclusion of immigrants and refugees and linguistic cultural mediation and interpreter for years. Also, there are lots of refugees in their region. Therefore, PROMIDEA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE was responsible about language teaching to refugees with their methods. Intermezzo Ungdomsorganisasjon is experienced in cultural and social integration of people. They are also experienced for workshops. They were responsible for planning against racism and prejudices.
Around 100000 people were reached participate in activities directly and indirectly;-project partners staff and volunteers. -learner groups.
-people who participated in activities like workshops and seminars. -people who watched project public service ad film. -people who participated in exhibitions. -people who reached art book. -social media users. -people who particiapted in festivals.- people who participated in awareness actions. people who read project news on local newspapers and internet. -University students.
We helped the refugees as the learners by organizing activities such as art, culture, workshops and seminars to integrate them culture of the country which they had refuged. The local public took part during our project period. We provided people to get info about refugees by organising conferences seminars, work shops and awareness activities to minimilize prejudices.
We worked on our aims in the process of project.
We studied through the aims that we had determined with our partner countries. Our purpose was spreading our project for long years by achieving awareness actions,dissemination activities and institutional, political,financial,sustainability works in Erasmus+ dimension.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 121588 Eur

Project Coordinator

ULUSLARARASI SANAT EGITIMCILERI DERNEGI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• PROMIDEA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE
• Stichting for Edification of Cultural Unified Relations in International Orientation – S.E.C.U.R.I.O.
• Associació Departament d’Estudis dels Medis Actuals
• EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT INNOVATION NETWORK
• Arte-Via Cooperativa Artística e Editorial, CRL
• Intermezzo Ungdomsorganisasjon