Title: Us & Them: dialog, tolerance, collaboration for good coexistence in a multicultural world!
Project type: Erasmus+ / Strategic Partnerships for adult education
Ref. no.: 2015-1-RO01-KA204-015131
Promoter /Coordinator: Grupul pentru Intregrare Europeană/Group for European Integration (RO)
Duration: 01.11.2015 to 31.10.2017
Total value of the grant: 230408 Euro
Grant value for Group for European Integration: 31304 Euro
Summary and objectives:
Migration Policy Institute’s report “Multiculturalism: Success, Failure and the Future” (Feb. 2012) draws upon Multiculturalism Policy Index: “[…] multiculturalism in the West emerged as a vehicle for replacing old forms of ethnic and racial hierarchy with new relations of democratic citizenship, and there is some significant, if not yet conclusive, evidence that it is making progress toward the goal”.
Preliminary analysis made by us showed that in Europe exist many ethnicities, each country hosting national and immigrant minorities. This situation exists in project countries - RO, CY, ES, IE, IT, PT, TR, UK. The 2011-2012 censuses in these countries reported various religions: Muslims, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Hebrew, Hindu, Presbyterian, Anglican, Methodist, Reformed, Pentecostal, Orthodox, Sunni, Alevi or Sufi.
The social tensions/anti-social deeds generated by multiple factors (i.e. different religious background, cultural traditions, affiliation to ethnicities/social clusters, etc.) can be defused and prevented through non-formal/informal education for tolerance, acceptance, opening, understanding, reciprocal knowledge. The project aims at training AE educators to promote tolerance and understanding of “the other” in multilateral communities. The target groups are AE educators & Adult Learners from cultural conglomerates.
Thus, the envisaged objectives are:
Outcomes:
Partnership:
Project results download section:
O2. Curriculum for Adult Educators – EN (download it here...)
O3. Adult Educator’s Handbook I – EN (download it here...)
O4. Training course for Adult Educators – EN (download it here...)
O4. Training course for Adult Educators – RO (download it here...)
O5. Handbook for learners living in multicultural societies “One day in the shoes of “The Other” – EN – (COMMING SOON...!!! WE ARE WORKING ON IT...)
O6. Intensive course for adult learners
O7. Case Studies – (COMMING SOON...!!! WE ARE WORKING ON IT...)