Online conference "Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe"

About the conference

With this short, online conference, we would like to share the key outcomes of the "Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe" outside of the consortium countries. We believe, that these outcomes may become a valuable tool in the hands of teachers, local policy-makers, municipality officers and representatives of various organisations and institutions united around the topic of migrant children's integration.

We will present, among others:

• summary of key outcomes of the research
• tools for inclusive education:
  • Handbook for teachers (incl. good practices, indicators)
  • 2 Digital tools: Digital storytelling application & Awareness-raising tool
• policy recommendations and national/European policy briefs

The programme covers, among others:

• discussion panel with relevant stakeholders: Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe
• presentation of the project outcomes: handbook for teachers, digital apps, policy-recommendations
• 2 parallel workshops:
  • workshop for teachers
    • 1) Good practices in managing multicultural education and diversity in schools (presentation of the handbook, zoom in on good practices
    • 2) Digital tools for inclusive education (zoom in on digital apps)
  • workshop for stakeholders
    • 1) National and European policies on migrant integration – moderated discussion (zoom in on policy recommendations, a roundtable of discussion
    • 2) Impact of Ukrainian conflict on school education – moderated discussion (moderated discussion of invited guests + questions from the audience)

More details and the programme in the attachment,

Participants and registration

We invite all participants interested in learning about practices, tools, and policy recommendations in the area of migrant children's integration, especially:

• teachers, educators, and youth workers working with migrant children
• policy-makers, municipality officers responsible for migrant integration
• researchers in the field of migrant children integration
• representatives of NGOs and Institutions interested in new tools and arguments for discussion about migrant children's integration in their countries

The conference takes place online, 11:00-14:30 CET, 22nd June.

Register here: http://tiny.cc/micreateregistration

All participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

About the project

The MiCreate project aimed to stimulate the inclusion of diverse groups of migrant children by adopting a child-centred approach to migrant children's integration on the educational and policy levels. Stemming from the need to revisit the existing integration policies, the research project aimed at a comprehensive examination of the contemporary integration processes of migrant children in order to empower them.

The MiCREATE research team has conducted research activities with newly arrived, long-term migrant and local children in Slovenia, Denmark, Spain, the United Kingdom, Austria and Poland. In the multi-method research that lasted from September 2019 to September 2021 more than 6,000 children were involved.

Especially now, teachers and policy-makers face significant challenges in integrating migrant children into local communities and schools, because of a lack of effective materials and quality information.

More about the project: http://www.micreate.eu/