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Digital, Social and Civic Competences Development for Adult Educators Working with Migrants and Refugees - DiSoCi
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Europe needs more cohesive and inclusive societies which allow citizens to play an active role in democratic life. Education and youth work are key to prevent violent radicalization by promoting common European values, fostering social integration, enhancing inter-cultural understanding and a sense of belonging to a community. According to the crisis the refugees, migrants and etc. diversified groups need to be trained and integrated to to the society they are planning to stay. To solve this problem adults educators need to extend and to develop the necessary competences also to have high quality learning opportunities by special study program to be developed for their competences development. New challenges will rise up and new competences are necessary for the adults educators working with the migrants, refugees and etc diversified groups by supporting and helping with their integration to the society as it will be important instrument to promote the inclusion of people with disadvantaged. DiSoCi will encourage competences development for adult's educators working with migrants, refugees and diversified groups in the Europe. The are no special programs for adult's educators working with migrants, refugees and diversified groups. Education at all levels is a key part of the integration process for migrants. According to the Strategic framework – Education & Training 2020 Adult learning is crucial for migrants as they may require different skills from those that they used in their countries of origin for their new careers. It can also help equip people working with migrants with digital, social and civic competences, easing the integration process for everyone involved. The analysis of national and EU reports showed that these problems are closely related with deficiency of adult learners tailored programs suitable for adult educators’ competences development, namely: sense of digital, social and civic competence on assessment and validation of informal and non-formal learning.According to the data of the need analysis in European and partner countries national context, the following needs are addressed within the project to develop assessment model and to develop the the program for competences development of adult educators’ working with migrants, refugees and diversified groups for totally 60 participants; to suggest the program to adult learners- migrants, refugees and etc. diversified groups, totally 60. To inform adults educators about the project and the programes in the Conference (E3). The objectives are: 1. To evaluate the level of adult's educators competences to work with migrants and refugees;2. To encourage the continuing and professional development of adult educator's by using the innovative education models and Open education recourses (OER) for their digital, social and civic competences development;3. To increase the motivation and reduce disparities in learning outcomes of migrants, refugees and etc. diversified by suggesting digital program for their competences development.To meet the above mentioned needs and implement the objectives, the partnership will prepare 3 intellectual outputs: assessment model (O1), study program (O2), e-repository (O3)To meet the above mentioned needs and implement the objectives, the partnership will prepare 3 intellectual outputs: assessment model (O1), study program (O2), e-Repository (O3) (see Annex Implementation model).Supporting the idea outlined in the 2013 Communication on Opening Up Education. The project will reach this priority by presenting the intellectual outcomes as OER within e-Repository for Adult's Educators (see Annex/implementation model), which will be available in 4 languages. Having new competences adults educators will design 4 parts program (O3/A1-A4) : 5 OER for "Promoting of social entrepreneurship", 5 OER for "Promoting gender equality and diversity in oder to protect human rights of migrants and refugees", 5 OER "Promoting personal development" and 5 OER for "Empowerment Integration of migrants into labour market " and will integrate it to the European E- Repository with open access.Target groups: adult educators; educators working with migrants, refugees and diversified groups. This project should be carried out trans-nationally because the challenges adult educators–practitioners; migrants, refugees and diversified groups is common across the EU. Thus solving the problems of unemployment and adult participation in education, must be based on the best practices of the whole international partnership. IO (O1,O2, O3) - a complex and systematic means for improving the adult educators' competencies will be built by integrating partners innovative, attractive, modern achievements and methods in the respective thematic areas, working with different diversified group learners. The project will adapt the good practices from IE, CY to project partners countries.
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