Objectives
- To help raise the confidence and motivation of refugees within the European society
- To empower refugees by giving them a voice and a stage for their story and thus increase their integration into societal life
- To equip refugees with communication and expression skills in the storytelling framework
- To provide trainers and multipliers with innovative tools and methodologies to empower this group through storytelling
- To contribute to the professional development of storytelling actors/trainers/multipliers and add an intercultural and international dimension to the approach
Activities
- Conducting research on storytelling methods, technical specifications and Actors mapping
- Adapting the LEVEL5 validation system by establishing reference systems on storytelling skills and competences. The validation system will be applied to trainers/multipliers and refugees to assess the acquired competences and the impact of the training/storytelling activities as a whole
- Carrying out national pilots: the participants in the European training course will organise pilot projects with refugees and migrants on storytelling
- Assessing and validating competence developments of refugees in terms of their e.g. communication competences and linguistic skills
Results
- Research on Storytelling Methods and Actors Mapping
- LISTEN Validation System
- Training course for trainers and multipliers
- Audio Book of Collection of Refugees Life Stories (LISTEN Award)
- Experience report and method guidelines
Partners
- Coordinator: BUPNET Bildung und Projekt Netzwek GMBH (Germany)
- Verein Multikulturell – Tyrolean Integration Centre (Austria)
- Active Citizens Partnership (Greece)
- Community Action Dacorum (United Kingdom)
- Blended learning institutions’ cooperative (Germany)
- Regionforbundet Västerbotten Lan (Sweden)
- CESIE (Italy)
