BRICS – Building Social Bridges by Artistic Initiatives is co-financed by the European Commission under the Erasmus + KA2 program. Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices – Strategic Partnerships for adult education.
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Duration: November 1, 2021 – May 1, 2023
The BRICS project consortium includes 5 partner countries: Poland, Cyprus, Italy, Slovakia and Spain.
– coordinators: Foundation for Somalia (Poland) www.fds.org.pl
– Enoros Consulting Ltd (Cyprus) www.enoros.com.cy
– Rinascita Società Cooperativa Sociale (Italy) www.cooperativarinascita.org/
– Bratislavský inštitút pre politickú (Slovakia) http://www.bpi.sk/
– Instalofi Levante S.L. – FyG Consultores (FYG) (Spain) http://www.fygconsultores.com/
The BRICS project aims to improve the social integration of immigrants through the development of their competences (social, cultural, organizational, educational, values, etc.), with particular emphasis on social inclusion as an essential element of the multi-directional process of the individual and society. The project aims to increase the skills of migrants and migrant women through creative and artistic activities, giving them a real opportunity to build their experience through training on key topics such as diversity and inclusion. Project outcomes will also give people from a migrant background the opportunity to learn about and further identify with European traditions, cultural values and heritage, while gaining practical knowledge of their immediate everyday surroundings and cultural environment.
BRICS aims to reinforce: cooperation between the world of education and formal and informal training and the professional domain, the promotion of the linguistic diversity of the EU and the awareness towards interculturality in community educational centers.
The project’s results will also offer the opportunity to people of migrant background to know and further identify with European traditions, cultural values and heritage while they gain practical knowledge of their immediate daily surroundings and cultural environment.
Goals:
– Help professionals and adult educators reflect upon the importance of inclusive and diverse societies, different cultural backgrounds, values, and assumptions;
– Teach professionals, and adult educators by sharing examples of best practices of using art as a tool for the inclusion of migrant groups;
– Provide professionals, and adult educators with artistic tools and methods to help and support marginalized people’s inclusion into the community;
– Increasing awareness about culture and important components;
– Developing more opportunities for arts education in order to ensure the continued inclusion of different migrants, it is important to embed the principles of Diversity.
Outputs:
– In-Service Training Program on using Art as an inclusive Educational Tool to ensure that professionals working with migrants are fully trained to harness the potential of the BRICS educational resources:
– creating a set of tools and methods that improve adult trainer’s competencies, especially in the social and cultural integration of migrants, supporting them in their professional activities by developing and improving migrants’ basic soft skills, taking initiative, and extracting their potential by using art as a driver for education and integration, e.g. Learner Manual containing all the required learning content;
– creating a supportive environment for access to lifelong learning, using their creative potential, and fully participating in cultural life – for adult educators, and professionals working with migrants in favor of social inclusion of people with a migrant backgrounds and reinforce their role as (European) citizens;
– 50 hours of instruction made up of: workshop learning and online self-directed learning, e.g. workshop on Arts as a new way of learning tool, presentation of the Toolkit to youth workers.
– Digitalized Creativity Boost Training for Migrants is intended for use during training courses for people with a migrant background in order to be supported and aware of policies, processes, and practices that meet relevant international standards in the field of migrant integration.
– BRICS Awareness Raising Workshop and Mini-Conference in 2023 – after the finalization of all implementation activities, targeted awareness-raising events will be organized in each country.
We understand social inclusion as an indispensable element of a constant and multi-directional process of creating a common platform for communication and everyday life, as well as supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences. The BRICS project is in all respects in line with the priorities of the Erasmus + strategy for inclusion and diversity in all areas of education, training, youth support and sport development. One of the results of the project is to raise the knowledge and skills of immigrants that will suit their needs.
The target audience of the dissemination strategy is not only limited to those who will directly benefit from the project’s activities and outcomes, but involves also a range of stakeholders, actors, professionals and associations working in the social welfare sector. Direct participants: People with a migrant background (including newly arrived migrants) and Adult Trainers (professionals working with migrants). Indirect participants: Community Centers, Organisations providing social and educational support to migrants , Training institutes for professionals, NGOs, Diaspora associations , Municipal Authorities, VET Providers, National line ministries and Wider Public.