Training On Move – educational sounds Erasmus Project

Project Title

Training On Move – educational sounds

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

The aim of the project ‘Training On Move – educational sounds’ (TOMes) is to gather good practices among consortium, and transversely their local networks of the partner organizations that are working on language acquisition of young refugees/migrants/asylum seekers/unaccompanied minors through non-formal and informal activities. The consortium will focus mainly on building capacities in order to support the integration process of the target group focusing primarily on language learning, by answering their individual needs and expectations.
Researchers identify local language learning as a primary stepping-stone for social inclusion (UN report on Refugees and Social Integration in Europe, 2018). TOMes is aiming to have an effective exchange of good practices on the quality of language training and expands it to vocational training. We will create a network of expertise on acquiring and developing this basic skill, gather the good practices, document them and share it in the network. Moreover, the Council of Europe, whose objective is the defense and promotion of human rights, has set out to help rebuild the lives of refugees through the European Passport of Qualifications for Refugees. This document, as the Council argues, “is the main tool for integrating refugees into European societies.” One of the main requirements to obtain this Passport of Qualifications is to accredit their level of education, work experience and language proficiency. For this reason, we are convinced that the TOMes project will contribute to boost this measure by promoting socio-cultural integration of young refugees in our society through necessary language learning.
TOMes primarily centers on sharing good practices. In the future, we hope to engage the network to generate tangible and innovative models or products. For this application, we aim to have sharing of knowledge and building of capacity, through an intercultural, dynamic and committed professional environment that will provide partners with new insights, methods and good practices that shall be integrated into our daily activities and local realities.
Project coordinators of all organizations agreed upon a plan of action with respect to management, impact assessment and dissemination of a list of good practices. We have also taken into account the feedback from the National Agency and previous applications. This prior deliberation will guarantee that the TOMes project has valuable impact on our direct target groups (young newcomers, local network of youth entities and actors supporting integration process and policies). The final results, an inviting documentation of transferable good practices, will be shared on local, national and transnational level in order to assure the multiply effect and sustainability of TOMes. We will bring together various practitioners from those networks to create a valuable exchange and learning experience, as well as to discuss the necessary and sufficient conditions for a good practice to be transferable.
Coordinators of TOMes implement criteria and tools in order to assure constant evaluation and assessment of project management. We carry out 3 TM to ensure the plan of action is concluded and all goals are reached as scheduled and agreed In order to build the network, share good practices and facilitate learning of the local stakeholders, we will also organize a Learning Teaching Training Activity (LTTA) in the first part of the TOMes; with blended mobility planned for second half of the project, providing us with the opportunity to directly work with target groups and exchange good practices and resources.
All partner organizations work in the nexus of youth work and language with refugees/migrants/asylum seekers. All partners have selected good practices in their local settings, and many associated organizations are included. During the project, we will organize meetings on the local level and document good practices on language learning for the young target groups. Because we all have a steady network with expertise on the issue, all partners aim to bring together the various expertise of their networks. This strategic partnership is the first step of getting together local actors as to share good practices across transnational borders. An important aspect of the strategic partnership is to render the documented good practices transferable to other local realities.
We are confident that this process will create a productive network given the international framework. The importance of language learning has been recognized as an essential process towards the integration of young newcomers, in all countries involved directly in this proposal. Therefore TOMes project aims to strengthen and share relevant and vital good practices in the first step of their strategic partnership. Building on the gathered good practices we hope to create innovative language-learning refugees/migrants/asylum seekers/unaccompanied minors in the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 75215 Eur

Project Coordinator

EdUcAntwerp VZW & Country: BE

Project Partners

• ARSIS KOINONIKI ORGANOSI YPOSTIRIXIS NEON
• Asociación Mojo de Caña
• Radio ECCA, Fundación Canaria
• Språkkraft, ideell förening