Reshaping Life in a Generous Country Erasmus Project

Project Title

Reshaping Life in a Generous Country

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Integration of refugees; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Migration and refugee movements in the Mediterranean countries gained unprecedented momentum in recent years. The situation along migratory routes to Europe changed faster than ever before. Directly to Turkey from the borders, to Turkey and the islands in Mediterranean from “Eastern Mediterranean Route”, to Malta and Greece from “Central Mediterranean Route”, to Portugal from the “Western Mediterranean Route”. An estimated 11 million Syrians had fled their homes since the outbreak of the civil war in March 2011. Today, in the sixth year of war, 13.5 million have been in need of humanitarian assistance within the country. Among those escaping the conflict, the majority sought refuge in neighboring countries or within Syria itself. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 4.8 million fled to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq, and 6.6 million were internally displaced within Syria. Meanwhile about one million requested asylum to Europe. According to the International agreements and the constitution ‘’the right to live’’ was one of the essential rights that provided other rights to be put into practice. In order for refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants to count in social inclusion and to continue their lives in hosting countries, they had to improve their level of language. Because of the lack of their language skills, the individuals who couldn’t communicate with their social environments caused problems shown in statistics. The adults lacking host countries’ languages created unsolvable problems in health, education and all areas. According to the researches done, refugees who did not learn the language of hosting country were under more of a risk of being taken advantage of and badly treated.

The objectives of the project were:
-to improve and extend the supply of high quality learning opportunities to the needs of individual low-skilled or low qualified woman refugees so they acquired literacy competences also the digital competences, including through the validation of skills acquired through informal and non-formal learning as mentioned in Erasmus+ Programme Guide.
-to provide an e/m-language learning module in e-learning platform for the woman refugees to learn the language of the host community or country.
-to implement a succession of activities that promoted the social integration of refugees in the host society

The project’s aims were:
– to improve and provide a quality distance education program in the language teaching and learning
– to provide a quality methodology and curricula
– to design the platform and other ICT Applications
– to stimulate the acquisition of ICT skills.
– to provide virtual courses in partners’ languages to a number of woman refugees who settled in the partner countries.

With the aims and objectives above, project focused on woman refugees’ language learning (literacy) with the help of distance education tools reaching the e-learning platform from the PCs or from their smart phones and/or tablets via Android based mobile applications. To this end, the target group did not only have literacy competences but they also improved their digital skills and competences.

Eventually, at the end of the project, the consortium constituted 7 outputs;
– to establish the right target group and their requirements,
– to know well the current situation related to adult refugees’ education,
– to show and disseminate the results in an international conference and publish in a scientific journal,
– to design an e-learning platform and other ICT applications to teach partner countries’ languages,
– to create an Android-based Application to reach the platform,
– to know how to create a course in the platform,
– to write a guide book (and the course in Moodle platform) for digital competence which helps users have basic digital literacy.

Project was disseminated internally at each participant organization (as some partners represented very big organizations, as the case of the Directorate of National Education, e-Learning Training Center, NGO and University) whose staff were aware of the Project’s existence and foreseen internal impacts. Final Dissemination Seminars were held in Turkey, Greece, Malta and Portugal as local, regional, national and EU level. These disseminations also envisaged the participation and contribution of everyone, as well as the enhancement of further internal use of Project results. Externally, the Project was disseminated during its entire duration, near the Training provider NGOs and training and e-learning provider Institutions and Companies (SMEs, large companies, schools and Universities). This was of importance when disseminating near their local, regional and national networks.

The ICT infrastructure of the project (Web Portal, e-Learning Platform and other Web Services) were a paradigm how education had to be in the digital era and complete the innovative character of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 194791 Eur

Project Coordinator

Cukurova Ilce Milli Egitim Mudurlugu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• APLOAD Lda
• UNIVERSITY OF CUKUROVA
• Mesleki Girisimciler ve Toplum Gonulluleri Dernegi
• ACROSSLIMITS LTD
• K MILIOS AND SIA OE
• DALYA AJANS REKLAM TANITIM MEDIKAL BILGISAYAR BILISIM VE PROMOSYON DEKORASYON ITHALAT IHRACAT TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI