Objectives
- To strengthen the skills of teachers in promoting productive relationships with the families of pupils with a migrant background
- To support the involvement of foreign parents in the educational pathway of their sons and daughters
- To improve the educational offer and to combat school drop-outs of pupils with a migrant background
Activities
- Collection of innovative initiatives of civil society organisations for the involvement of parents with a migrant background in the school life of their sons and daughters
- Development of the online platform Parents Engage with interactive materials for teachers
- Training materials for teachers to support them in adopting innovative practices for parental involvement
- Development of an information pack for parents to inform them about the local educational context
- Development of a mobile phone application for parental involvement in the school system
- Production of a series of videos with direct narratives of migrant parents, following the logic of digital storytelling
- Elaboration of policy recommendations for the promotion of support programmes for parental involvement
Resources
- Collection and analysis of innovative initiatives involving migrant and refugee parents in school life
- Parents Engage Teaching Training manual on Engaging parents of migrant children
- Mobile application for migrant parents
- Digital storytelling with experiences of teachers and migrant parents
- Collection of policy recommendations for involving migrant parents in schools
- Newsletters
Impact
- Strengthening the skills of teachers in promoting productive relationships with families of pupils with a migrant background
- Greater involvement of foreign parents in the education of their sons and daughters
- Improvement of the educational offer for pupils with a migrant background
Partners
- STICHTING INTERNATIONAL PARENTS ALLIANCE IPA (The Netherlands, coordinator)
- STIMMULI FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (Greece)
- BUYUK ORTADOGU SAGLIK VE EGITIM VAKFI (Turkey)
- CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD (Cyprus)
- GOETHE-INSTITUT EV (Germany)
- Johann-Gutenberg-Schule Bremerhaven (Germany)
