REBUILDING THE LIVES IN THE LAND OF HOPE Erasmus Project

Project Title

REBUILDING THE LIVES IN THE LAND OF HOPE

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; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

Recently, the greatest challenge has been posed by the vast inflows of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Their arrival in recipient and hosting countries has caused a rapid evolution in public policy, including a strong shift towards achieving integration via education and training. Especially the Syria conflict has triggered the world’s largest humanitarian crisis since World War II. Humanitarian needs continue to rise, population displacements are increasing, and an entire generation of children is being exposed to war and violence, increasingly deprived of basic services, education and protection.

“Land of Hope” project has offered practical solutions to the integration of the target groups: designing the “language and communication module” of the hosting country as an intellectual output and improving “refugees’ basic digital skills” including digital literacy courses so that people can use computer technology in everyday life to develop new social and economic opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Short term assistance plays a role, but education has been consistently shown to provide a route to long term stability, enabling refugees, migrants and asylum seekers to:
– make steps towards securing social integration, employment and financial independence of developing basic skills and key competences of the target groups.
– develop and update the target groups’ key competences throughout their lives.
– improve their key competences for personal fulfilment, active involvement, integration, social cohesion and employability in the host country.

The project consortium consists of 7 partners which are adult education providers, public body and NGOs located in the countries which have been affected mostly by migrant and refugee flows: Turkey, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Sweden and Poland. The project has been coordinated by Tuzla Halk Egitimi Merkezi (Tuzla Public Education Centre) which is an active adult education provider established in Tuzla, Istanbul. The other partner from Turkey is T.C. Tuzla Kaymakamligi (Tuzla District Governorship) which is the main public authority in Tuzla. The Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED) has involved in the project as a partner from Greece. Comune di Magenta is a local public body (municipality) in Italy. IFALL – Integration För Alla from Sweden is an NGO working for integration between cultures and counteract violence between cultures in Sweden and in another countries. The other partner from Slovenia is Terra Vera Association for Sustainable Development. The partner, Stowarzyszenie Klub Sportowy ACTIVITA from Poland has been involved actively in the partnership.

In the project we have involved the target groups including migrants, refugees and asylum seekers coming for safety needs, the struggle for survival and/or work purposes. By the project we focused on the social and economic integration of refugees in the hosting countries which are involved in the project.

In order to achieve the aims of the project listed above we designed a language and communication module for migrants and refugees as an intellectual output. The module was applied at the local language courses to teach basic language skills and literacy to the target groups by the project partners. Local language courses were organised by each partner in their locality in which the IO1: language module developed by the partnership was applied.

The other important implementation of the project focused on improving refugees’ basic digital skills including digital literacy courses so that people can use computer technology in everyday life to develop new social and economic opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities. We elaborated and designed the content of the module: “Digital literacy module for the target group” in order to improve refugees’ basic digital skills and digital literacy as an intellectual output. Each partner promoted the “the Digital Literacy Course” and organised it for the target groups in the locality.

Two multiplier events were organised to disseminate the intellectual outputs to the wider community. The conference titled as “Teaching the Language to Refugees and Migrants” was organised as the dissemination and multiplier event on 25 May 2017. The multiplier event 2: Conference “Digital Literacy for Refugees and Migrants” was held by the project coordinator, Tuzla Halk Egitimi Merkezi on 10 May 2018 in Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey.

Throughout the Project, both language and digital literacy courses had a crucial impact on promoting the socio-economic integration of the target groups into the host society. The main impacts of the project are helping the target groups to improve the key elements; learning the language of the host country and the digital literacy to establish themselves and begin rebuilding their lives in the hosting country.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 186503 Eur

Project Coordinator

Tuzla Halk Egitimi Merkezi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• T.C. TUZLA KAYMAKAMLIGI
• Comune di Magenta
• INTEGRATION FOR ALLA
• INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
• DRUSTVO ZA TRAJNOSTNI RAZVOJ TERRAVERA
• Stowarzyszenie Klub Sportowy ACTIVITA