We All Belong Here: Creating Safe And Diverse City Spaces. Erasmus Project

Project Title

We All Belong Here: Creating Safe And Diverse City Spaces.

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Rural development and urbanisation; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

Growing urbanization combined with unprecedented migration rates possess many challenges both to the people living in the cities as well as the staff members from NGOs and municipalities working with them. As the cities grow (sometimes uncontrollably) there are more and more people facing the risk of exclusion and suffering from lack of access to education, culture, and job opportunities. These problems, especially visible among migrants, lead to loosening social connections and building hostility among members of the same local urban communities. Educators working in this kind of setting are intensifying their efforts to address these issues. However, in many cases their approach is to come with ready solutions and act as experts rather than listening to the community members and giving them freedom to both express their needs and finding their own ways to address them.

This project seeks to rethink the concept of empowerment as used in the context of deprived urban communities and to equip both professionals working with adults and the learners themselves with guidelines and tools for creative more inclusive urban spaces through designing and implementing activities that are based on real needs of the inhabitants.

The specific objectives of the project are:
1. Raising professional competences of staff working with adults at risk of exclusion due to migration background as for innovative methodologies for creating more inclusive urban spaces
2. Empowering adults to become change makers in their local, urban communities
3. Promoting new approaches to social urban development on a cross sectoral level through developing and sharing the following intellectual outputs:
-Tool kit on community needs assessment and existing best practices
– Mixed media training course (videos + background text) for practitioners on building inclusive and diverse neighborhoods

These objectives are to be achieved through a series of activities both for staff members and the adult learners themselves, such as:

1 Learning Teaching Training for multipliers on community need assessment methods
2 Local field work/testing: conducting community need assessment and supporting adult learners to implement their own micro-projects addressing these needs
3 Developing the intellectual outputs
4 National Dissemination Events

The main target groups of the project:
1. Adult learners at risk of exclusion due to migration background (both internal and international)
2. Educators and personnel working form adults at risk

The main result of the project is the promotion of more inclusive approaches to urban community development; empowerment of both practitioners and beneficiaries and increasing their competences related to introducing positive change in their communities; enhanced cross-sectoral cooperation and concrete follow-up projects on inclusive urban communities developed

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 114657 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUNDACJA AUTOKREACJA & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Educatio
• Bursa Il Milli Egitim Mudurlugu
• Ayuntamiento de Mislata