Project title: Migrants Living Under a New Sky
Project acronym: MiLiu – TR SMART WORKING AND TRAINING
Project start date: 08/09/2022
Duration: 24 months
Project end date: 08/09/2024
Project ID: KA210-VET-663DCFF2
Coordinator of the project:
Mažoji Bendrija “Gynta projektai” Lithuania
Partner Organizations:
Eco Logic, The Republic of Macedonia
Prometeo, Italy
Description:
Educators and staff members involved in I+C-VET, will be the focus of the project and the first target group of the actions. They will even be the object of the pilot’s experimentation. The selection criteria will be the length of their CV as a preferential criterion, educational degrees/titles in IT, extent and degree of personal motivation at re-placement in Hi-Tech activities, their capacity to spread results in the widest way. Involvement: the realization of the results, the design of the educational pathway, the realization of the pilot phase, the selection of the participants to the main activities of the project, the assessment of their motivation and attitude towards job-seeking as leverage to develop and upgrade their digital literacy. B) Events’ Participants (Results, dissemination events, Workshops, learning activities) will be selected in such a way as to achieve balanced representativeness of the different target groups involved. They will be selected on the basis of the motivation to be part of the project, the language skills in the English language (at least A2 level), the digital skills previously acquired, the capacity to spread the results of the project in the dissemination events. They will be adult migrant participants in I-VET and C-VET courses of the
partners, adult counsellors of the partners’ organizations, policy-makers and community stakeholders and they will be involved in all single steps of the project. Learners will be invited to participate in the preliminary groups. They will be by an open invitation to the staff who will be invited to become involved on a voluntary basis. Those expressing an interest will be invited to have a discussion with the key project person from that organization who will 5 / 30 Call 2022 Round 1 KA2 KA210-VET – Small-scale partnerships in vocational education and training Form ID KA210-VET- 663DCFF2 Deadline (Brussels Time) 23 Mar 2022 12:00:00 EN brief them about the project and what becoming involved entails in terms of time and commitment. C) Staff members as dissemination users: they will be involved through events and newsletters. This target will be transnational and universalistic. It will be reached by capitalizing effectively on the networks of each partner and associated. The objectives’ clearness and the aptness of communication channels (planned in the communication plan), will ensure the full engagement of people and organizations. The other group that will participate is stakeholders in education and global learning (which are members of the
applicant or members of the partner’s organizations) who will be recruited using the same criteria on the participatory group and promoters of global learning The project will be a valuable opportunity for the Staff of partners’ organizations to create the best products and share a resource that would be a great capacity building process for each one of them
and for all of them together in their work with migrant learners. Partner organizations work with migrant learners who require often use new, innovative methods of learning to gain goals such as full social integration, improving basic language skills, entering the labor market. Learners need digital integration that will facilitate them to learn important skills in order to empower themselves and ensure their social inclusion since online resources are the current tools for everything (networking, relationships, business, the search for a job, communication, etc.). Digital tools are in key with the mindset of the Always-Connected generation and they can therefore motivate them to learn in an easier and faster manner with the tools they feel comfortable with away from formal education that most of them may find somewhat intimidating. The project will also be based on the CLIL methodology. Needs of the group of educators: 1. Comparing the existing material, information, documents (programs, level of skills, work organization, demand from labour market, employer connection, mentor companies, company visits both ways, needs by the companies, needs by curricula, needs from the general labor market in the EU and nationally, etc.) with the main focus on
migrant training how to find a job or work for yourself and own a small business. 2. Creation of new tools as a set of Instruments for trainers working with blended, mixed migrants and adults’ groups, explaining how to work with blended adults: diversity of ages, specialties, nationalities, initial education, social and professional status, as VET is the most diversified area of education. 3. Creation of Learners Guide with a description of all phases of how to become proficient in the language and digital skills; 4. Sharing of tools, material online, instruments, methodologies and good practices on migrants’ assessment tools. Creation of a self-evaluation Box for individualized migrants’ skills evaluation, combined with Digi Comp competencies levels. 5. Development of recommendations for improvements learning module(s) /curricula of different VET programs in initial and continuous VET learning, according to the need of different learning programs 5. Exchanges of trainers – learning abroad, taking example from different EU experiences; 6. Creation/reorganization of trainer’s competencies when involved in VET education with migrants; 6 / 30 Call 2022 Round 1 KA2 KA210-VET – Small-scale partnerships in vocational education and training Form ID KA210-VET-663DCFF2 Deadline (Brussels Time) 23 Mar 2022 12:00:00 EN 7. Testing of the results with migrant learners, trainers (in a wide way), other stakeholders during round tables and
collected feedback incorporation. 8. Creation of a publication of examples and tools in migrants’ education with tips, recommendations and the possibility to do network with other
The main objectives are:
- To provide VET learners (as national as migrants), VET teachers and the local business community
with a thorough understanding of the factors affecting and skills favoring host National language
competencies through the development of pedagogical material for future job or business creation; - To develop VET teachers’ pedagogical approaches – through the improvement of digital skills –
which can be used for new VET activities interested in implementing a work-based model for
individualized, blended adult learning. - To foster VET learners (migrants mostly) to get aware, verify and continuously improve their level
of language skills through the development of self-assessment tool. This tool will be delivered
through the learning of ICT tools – in relation to CLIL methodology - To improve VET curriculum/modules by learning language through ICT tools – and gaining basic
digital skills.
Other aims of the proposal: 1. transfer of knowledge and experiences, especially from Italian partner
to others how to use a methodology and a partnership wide capacity building whereby the method
and the web-based technology used are explored with a variety of target groups of migrant adults
and young adults. 2. augmentation of awareness of the special learning needs of migrant adults
coming in the EU countries mostly illiterate and – in the same process – give instruments to the
stakeholders within their respective communities, their networks and players reached through
dissemination. 3. Exchange of methodologies, information and tools on the use of the National
language in situations of the interaction of the workplace by using Web Platform – which will not
only allow for objective assessment the improvement of the literacy key competencies but also will
enable an individual to follow an online and face-to-face development program. For this specific
purpose, the already successfully developed and tested tool will be introduced in the process See
objectives linked with priorities: Increasing the flexibility of opportunities in VET -> linked to looking
at the new tools usable by partners/stakeholders/other VET organization’s to enable migrants and
educators to have a better and more adaptable learning environment; Inclusion and diversity in all
fields of education (VET) -> see objectives 1 and 3 as examples of inclusion in the learning and
working places. Addressing digital transformation through the development of digital readiness,
resilience -> objectives 2 and 4 where the focus of the proposal is creating material online to be used
by partners, migrants and managers in all EU participating countries; Teaching and learning of
foreign languages and integration of migrants -> this is the focus of the proposal: to teach National
languages to migrants Work-based learning -> to learn as in the VET org as in the workplace or in the
labor office as a place with a doublepurpose (learning job seeking) Please outline the target groups
of your project Target group: 1. Adult migrants (18 y. and older) involved in I-VET and C-VET
education; 2. C-VET Trainers/teachers working with technological and digital subjects; 3. I-VET
Trainers/teachers working with languages, laws and local habits; 4. Staff working in partners
organizations, mentors and trainers working in SME with stagers and practices organizers/AET
institutions/ Practical Enterprise networks.
