How to support migrant women, refugees and asylum seekers media literacy?
Since March 8th 2019 the ICT course developed within the two-year project MEDLIT will begin.
The course is aimed at all migrant women, adult and motivated to take part in a comprehensive training that will allow them to develop specific digital skills, through support and accompaniment to the implementation of their own personal project within an awareness campaign and the organization of a final event, in which the campaign developed and the results achieved will be presented to the local community.
Alongside the implementation of the course, the MEDLIT tools developed by the partnership in the previous months will be piloted to support migrant women in their learning pathway.
The course will be divided into two parts: first of all, participants will work on their skills and competences in relation to the different digital supports such as tablets, smartphones and computers. In the second part of the course, thanks to the new competences acquired, they will realise a group’s project and a peer-to-peer awareness campaign aiming at involve actively other migrant women living in Palermo, inviting them to improve their social inclusion in the local community through media literacy skills. At the end of the course, participants will organize a local event in Palermo designed in collaboration with CESIE.
The ICT course is delivered in collaboration with Bibliotheque sans frontiere that supports CESIE in the logistical aspect providing the IDEASBOX tool, a digital library with tablets and computers to be used with women to develop and improve their media literacy.
The course is free of charge and includes one lesson per week for two months, at the end of which an attendance certificate will be released for all migrant women who participated.
Furthermore, MEDLIT tools will be available in English, Italian, Arabic, Farsi and Greek since May 2019 on the official e-learning platform.
About the project
MedLIT – Media literacy for refugee, asylum seeking and migrant women is co – financed by the European Commission thanks to Erasmus + programme, Strategic Partnership in the field of Adult Education.
The project aims to develop innovative tools to increase media and digital competences of low skilled/low qualifies refugee, asylum seeking and migrant women. It will allow many women to implement their media and digital competences in their daily life, making easier their job searching and their social inclusion in the local communities.
Partners
The project consortium is composed of six European countries:
- University of Gloucestershire (United Kingdom, Coordinator);
- Verein Multikulturell (Austria);
- Inishowen Development Patnership (Ireland);
- Foundation for Shelter and Support to Migrants (Malta);
- Kentro Merimnas Oikogeneias Kai Paidiou (Greece);
- CESIE (Italy).
For further information
Read more about MedLIT.
Contact migration@cesie.org.
