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Training of cultural mediators utilizing new Social Networking Software
Start date: Feb 1, 2012,

Over the past decades, internal and external migration has been considerably growing in the European Union transforming European nations into multi-cultural societies. Thus, a pressing need to assist foreign citizens in smoothly becoming members of the hosting societies has emerged; at the same time, hosting societies must be coached into learning to battle xenophobia and tolerate different cultures. Such assistance and coaching are provided by Cultural Mediators, the role of whom is being increasingly appreciated by European societies. Although various VET courses and educational programmes are available, no systematic effort has been made to design and offer sustainable services that address the actual Cultural Mediators needs arising in the workplace. The proposed project will firstly study the actual professional needs of Cultural Mediators and draft a job profile, listing the necessary formal and informal competences they should develop. Based on these, the project will develop a set of learning scenarios aiming at enhancing the Cultural Mediator competences by providing them the opportunity to share real-life experience and adopt best practice.To this end, the project develop and deploy a special multi-lingual social networking platform, which will foster the development of a European Cultural Mediators community, by providing a universal focal point for the exchange of working experience between the community members and other stakeholders. The platform will support peer learning via the realization of training scenarios tailored to the specific job needs of Cultural Mediators, which will adopt the principles of adult education and will make use of high quality digital training content, as well as of communication tools, such as forums, blogs and wikis, developed and maintained by the registered members of the community. The training services will be accessible via Internet, thus supporting distance learning in the workplace, even during emergency situation.
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  •   286 047,00
  • Education and training\Life long learning (2007-2013)\LEONARDO DA VINCI\Multilateral projects on Innovation
  • Project on ERASMUS Platform

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