The project will start from October 2010 and will be implemented during two years. The consortium consists of 10 partner institutions from 10 different countries and one partner from third country (Belorussia). The project is coordinated by SIH, Lithuania. The partners are from Greece, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Ireland, Netherlands, Romania, United Kingdom and Poland.
In today’s global knowledge society and with ever increasing mobility, migrants face many challenges before they can settle and feel part of a new community. Two major challenges, which affect many new arrivals, are lack of language skills and lack of basic knowledge on financial matters.
The aim of the project is to work together with social partners such as migrant communities and financial institutes to create a Europe wide network of relevant institutes in order to reach migrants in partner countries to improve their integration into local society by providing them with opportunities to gain language skills on basic financial matters.
Main outputs:
created European network of fitted trainers from migrant communities able to continue delivering the skills to final beneficiaries
developed Useful Kit of financial terminology, financial glossary and a guide with main information on financial institutes or financial information sources
created constantly updated long-time after project is over active webportal integrating all the useful financial information, on-line trainings, contact information and networks data
Target groups:
migrants originating from within and from outside of the EU
social partners, education institutes and other support organisations to migrant communities.
The project will impact on:
migrant communities members, which will be using the Kit developed during the project and the web portal for their everyday needs and will be trained by the trainers-representatives from migrant communities, equipped with the methodology to educate wider range of migrants
migrants, who do not belong to migrant communities involved in the project, will be able to use the web portal and Kit for their self-learning of basic language on financial matters
general public, who will use the Kit and web portal materials as an in-formal way of learning
educational institutes, would use project materials as a non-formal way of teaching.
On January 19 SIH organized the workshop “INTEGRA: migrants integration into their new society – first steps” in the framework of LLP Grundtvig Multilateral Project “Migrant's integrating kit - basic language for dealing with financial matters - INTEGRA“. The workshop gathered representatives from governmental institutions, NGOs, migrant communities, other organisations dealing with migration issues, language teachers.
The third project partners meeting took place in Dublin, Ireland on 1-2nd December 2011. The partners from Lithuania, UK, Netherlands, Romania, Turkey, Greece, Belorussia, Poland, Germany, and Spain attended the meeting. Read more...
The second project partners meeting, Poros (GR), June 2011
The second project partners meeting took place in Poros, Greece on 16-17th June 2011. The partners from Lithuania, UK, Netherlands, Romania, Turkey, Greece, Belorussia, Poland, Germany, and Spain attended the meeting. Project administrator Violeta Mirinaviciute represented Soros International House.
The meeting lasted two days and there were a lot of items on the agenda to be discussed and agreed on.
On the first day the methodologies for training ‘representatives’ and for training final beneficiaries developed by the Interest group during their meeting in Lodz (PL) were presented to all the partners. Then the partners split into two groups for further discussions and later the discussions were summed up and the final version of methodologies agreed upon. Later partners discussed in work groups and selected the phrases under given categories.
The first meeting day ended with a practical workshop based on simulation scenario’s which was based on warm up theatre games and exercises, introduction of subject materials (banking, social welfare, etc) and developing simulations based on information provided.
On the second day partners presented good practice examples in their countries, were introduced the exploitation plan and discussed on the criteria for selecting “representatives” and immigrant groups for training.
The meeting of the Interest group, set up of partners from Lithuania, Romania, Byelorussia, Ireland and Poland took place on the 18-19th April in Lodz, PL.
The aim of the Interest group meetingwas to carry out activities listed in WP3.
The meeting participants worked on simulation scenarios and practiced them by means of drama, developed methodologies both for training “representatives” and for training final beneficiaries, worked out a preliminary list of possible self-learning materials and agreed on categories for useful phrases. All the prepared materials will be presented during the partners meeting in Greece. The selected list of categories will be sent to all the project partners before the meeting and their task will be to collect useful phrases for each category and bring them to Greece.
The initial partners meeting in Netherlands, January 2011
The initial partners meeting of the project “MIGRANTS' INTEGRATING KIT - BASIC LANGUAGE FOR DEALING WITH FINANCIAL MATTERS – INTEGRA” took place in Rotterdam, Netherlands on 13-14th Jan 2011. The partners from Lithuania, UK, Netherlands, Romania, Turkey, Greece, Belorussia, Poland, Germany, and Spain attended the meeting. The director Daiva Malinauskiene and project coordinator Violeta Mirinaviciute represented Soros International House.
The meeting lasted two days. SIH director Daiva Malinauskiene presented the work packages and partners commitments. The partners looked through the work plan and their individual tasks. Then the presentation of social partners and the survey results on migrants needs in each partner country took place.
During the second day project partners discussed financial issues, project website, approved the project’s logo, and discussed the dissemination policy and the evaluation strategy issues. All the partners evaluated this meeting as a very positive experience and useful for the future implementation.
Next partners meeting will be hosted in Greece.
Adult Learners’ Week, 15th - 21st November, 2010
On the 15th - 21st November, 2010 there was an annual (11th) Adult Learners’ Week coordinated by the Lithuanian Association of Adult Education. Like every year, Soros International House participated in the Adult Learners’ Week and organized various events: a competition “My beloved teacher”, open lessons “Visit each other, learn from each other” for public and students, teachers of SIH, a seminar for language teachers “Educational video films in a lesson”.
During the Adult Learners’ Week we arranged an exhibition of children and teenagers artwork who participated in the EUROCHILD talent competition and Lifelong Learning and Nordplus programme projects’ exhibition “Learning myself and teaching others”.
On the 26th of November teachers of SIH Lauryna Butrimienė and Robin Alexander Muck arranged a seminar “The Unity of Teaching and Learning Methods and Tools when Organizing a Successful English Lesson” for the emplyees of Pakruojis Adults and Youth education centre and teachers from Pakruojis region. International project coordinator Nijolė Šmitaitė presented projects being implemented by SIH under Lifelong Learning and Nordplus programmes.
