Social inclusion through self-education and learning for migrants Erasmus Project

Project Title

Social inclusion through self-education and learning for migrants

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Integration of refugees; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

Project “Social inclusion through self-education and learning for migrants” main aim was to achieve cooperation between organizations of the involved countries in order to answer the needs to support the migrants in the process of their inclusion to the EU and to provide them needed information, trainings and knowledge, necessary to integrate these people into European economy and social life.
The main project aim was achieved through the following specific objectives:
– strengthened cooperation between the organizations from different EU countries, in order to establish the exchange of practices;
– promoted employment and vocational training, including promoting early integration into the labor market and migrant’s entrepreneurship.
In this regard, project addressed the following target group – all legal migrants who have applied or have been granted temporary residence permit in the respected country – Spain, Belgium, Greece and Bulgaria.
During implementation period, 109 participants were involved, as follow:
72 representatives of stakeholders participated in the the multiplier event;
17 trainers participated in the C1 short term joint staff training activity;
20 users, who tested the elaborated online platform and mobile applications;
Additional to this, the project had indirect target group as follow:
– At least 30 Organizations belonging to the CEC network, who received regular information for the project implementation and results;
– people belonging to organizations working in the field of social inclusion and integration or migrants;
– people from local public authorities and / or European policy makers, who participated to the multiplier event.
During project implementation period, following results were achieved:
– developed questionnaire for collecting data;
– organized interviews and meetings with organizations and institutions working with immigrants in each partnering county;
– developed a general report containing a synthesis of the conclusions and the information collected;
– developed set of training materials on 10 topics: Country at a glance; Language; Governance system; Geographical – demographic info; Health – Labor – Education; Culture – Tradition – Dietary habits; Employment; Entrepreneurship; Migration policy; Services – Instructions.
The developed materials were adapted to the Bulgarian, Greek, Spanish and Belgium context and environment
– Elaborated online training platform & website – www.platform.integritybg.com;
-Developed additional training materials for Entrepreneurship and Employment, together with examples for job offers, CV, cover letter and Psychometric Tests, uploaded on the platform;
-Developed mobile applications for Android and IOs, containing all training topics, including the developed additional topics and a quiz, aiming to access each user if they understand well the training materials and topics.
-Tested platform and mobile apps by different users from each partnering country. The activity was not envisaged in the approved application, but project partners decided to implement it, in order to collect user’s feedback and comments;
-Organized 3 physical transnational project meetings and 1 online TPM.
-Organized 1 online Short term learning activity “Training for maintaining, managing, and working with an online information platform”.
-Organized 1 online multiplier event on the topic “How to improve the welcome and support of migrants in EU rural and urban areas?”
-Developed project logo;
-Developed and disseminated 6 project newsletters;
-Developed and disseminated project leaflet;
The achieved impact through the project implementation was:
Impact on the participating organizations: they have learned how the different models of organization of the migration issues were implemented in the 4 countries participating to the project. All partners managed to enhance their network both nationally but even more at cross country level, given them the chance to exchange knowhow and knowledge with experts acting in the same or similar field across 4 countries.
Impact for relevant stakeholders: to get an useful information and very practical information and tools to help Vocational and Education centers to give answers and tips to the migrants, asylum seekers and refugees searching for information (migration policy, education and training, accommodation, healthcare, jobs, start a business etc.) in order to settle down in a new country. The above mentioned information is available both on the developed platform and mobile apps. The online platform is a real added value for centers in charge of the welcome and trainings of migrants by giving them concrete information to better help them in their integration pathways.
Impact for the target groups: to get as much information as possible to help them in their settling down and try to avoid problems of integration because of lack of information, addresses and contacts;

Project Website

http://platform.integritybg.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 183971,7 Eur

Project Coordinator

Integrity consulting Ltd. & Country: BG

Project Partners

• FUNDACIO PRIVADA TRINIJOVE
• Technical Training Bulgaria Ltd
• MESOGEIAKO EKPAIDEFTIKO KENTRO – M.E.K. LIFE-LONG LEARNING CENTER LEVEL II S.A.
• COMITE EUROPEEN DE COORDINATION
• Biowin Project Ltd.