UnboundED

Background of the project proposal:

The Erasmus+ programme offers many opportunities to people to discover other countries, to participate in vocational training, volunteering opportunities, educational programmes, and to create a network at international level which can facilitate finding further opportunities in the EU. The inclusiveness of the programme allows people with economic difficulties to participate (usually covering all costs – travel, accommodation, food, pocket money). We believe that building an international network which can support the design of projects (or projects of their own or the ones of their local partners) can contribute to the empowerment of people with migratory background, facilitating their integration thorugh competence development and intercultural learning.

Objectives of the project:
• To discover the possibilities and the benefits mobility projects can offer to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in general
• To exchange tools to assess prior learning of the target group, to prepare and accompany them in a mobility project, and to facilitate the application of their newly acquired skills in the hosting country’s context
• To create a network of organisations who would implement and participate in mobility projects, involving refugees and asylum seekers
• To find alternatives for involving migrants without travel permit, in mobility projects (discovering the opportunities of virtual mobility; or sending international trainers and teachers to their host communities etc.)

Place: Palermo, Sicily
Dates: October-November 2019
Duration: 6 days+travel

Participants: Total of 30 participants from 10 countries
Profile: Social workers, educators, psychologists, teachers, and other practitioners working in the field of empowering people with migrant background

Role of the partners:
- To select 3 people from their organisation or from their local partners (either staff members or volunteers, practitioners in the field) who will participate in the seminar
- To facilitate the logistics about travel of the participants (together with the hosting organisation FORME)
- To assure that participants come prepared to the seminar and can talk about: migration policies in their country; profile and needs of people with migrant background in their countries; good and bad practices regards to the empowerment of this target group; main actors (institutions, public authorities, organisations, private foundations etc.) involved in the integration process of migrants
- To collect and send the documentation about travel costs of their participants, to FORME (travel itineraries, invoices, boarding passes, tickets etc.)

Costs:
Travel is reimbursed up to a certain amount (as foreseen by the Erasmus+ programme):
For travel distances between 100 and 499 KM: 180 EUR per participant
For travel distances between 500 and 1999 KM: 275 EUR per participant
For travel distances between 2000 and 2999 KM: 360 EUR per participant

Board and lodging is covered by the hosting organisation.
There is no participation fee.

Interested organisations should compile the following application form:
https://goo.gl/forms/S0gQE4olZ873dc4Y2

Only organisations who compile the form will be contacted.