ReHIn

4women – Social inclusion of migrant women through art, sport, civic education, and group coaching

Date launched

September - 2020

Ending date

September - 2022

Language/s

English / Spanish / French / German / Italian

Focus

Gender equality/ Social inclusion

Type of resources

Digital resources / Lesson plans

Education

Synchronous

Country of lead organization

Germany

Lead organization

BIDA e.V.Kultur und Bildung

Who is financing it?

Erasmus + Programme of the European Union (2020-1-DE02-KA204-007371)

Target population

The adult education providers (social workers, trainers, coaches, mentors, etc.) working with vulnerable adult learners, and especially with migrant women. The migrant women in 4 EU countries themselves (Germany, Italy, France and Spain), where their social inclusion was identified as a challenge by the partners' experts.

Summary

Migrant women face challenges and barriers as both migrants and women, namely, a double disadvantage that is also confirmed by research. Despite having tertiary education similar to that of native-born women and migrant men, migrant women face additional obstacles in labour integration process, such as discrimination, lack of networking, mismatching job needs and qualifications, family-related commitments. In order to improve their labour market integration, migrant women need support and guidance through their integration process, they must be informed on their rights and obligations in the host society, they must be empowered, they must have access to trainings and be able to take full advantage of their skills. In this context the current project aims to apply a comprehensive approach providing networking opportunities, practical and transversal skills, assisting and facilitating the migrant women integration path into the EU societies through civics, art and sport coaching schemes, that could be an answer to the challenges they encounter. The 4women project will be based on the partners' practices that using the civics, art and sport, and especially the benefits of self-defence trainings and group coaching, could help to bring people from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds together and can contribute to the integration and inclusion of women with migrant backgrounds and therefore to the community cohesion.

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Main Objectives

The project aims to:

  • Build a social integration model for migrant women linked with non-formal education and life-long learning (LLL) methods;
  • Exchange knowledge and transfer good practices among partners on art, sport, civic education and group coaching of vulnerable adults;
  • Empower migrant women towards social inclusion, civic engagement and participation in the EU societies;
  • Provide awareness raising opportunities for stakeholders and general public to support migrant women in their integration process;
  • Promote intercultural dialogue and strengthen knowledge and acceptance of social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity in society

Pedagogical methodologies used

Learning by doing.

Identified innovation elements

  • The training programme includes a wide variety of activities to assist migrant women to develop soft skills, key compentences, civic knowledge, at the sime time empowering them
  • The programm develop participant´s understading of the European Union idea, values, tradicion and culture
  • The units of the program are edited in join collaboration by experts of the project partner

Lesson learnt

  • Women's associations of migrants play a fundamental role in encouraging the various processes of inclusion and in improving women’s leading role. It also represents an experience of social visibility and public responsibility, as well as a support and a concrete response to some specific needs so it is key to include them into the activities developed

Scability potential

Promoting new tools in the adult education field for social inclusion of vulnerable learners and transfering knowledge and best practices between adult education providers in the partner countries and the rest of the EU.

Others comments

The project is also develop in Italy, Sweden, Slovenia, Cyprus and Austria.