Objectives
- To improve and extend the offer of high quality learning opportunities so to make it easier for refugees to access higher education
- To achieve transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications to facilitate learning, employability and labour mobility
- To focus on adult education institutions, which undertake important work in terms of determining
competences, qualifications and providing guidance before people start studying, as well as on Higher
Education Institutions and universities of applied sciences, which can cooperate with adult education
institutions to shape access and transition to tertiary education.
Activities
Intensive programmes for teaching staff through study laboratories – study visits to share and learn from
good practice projects, combined with discussions of actions and methodologies at partner organisations:
- VNB: competence checks, qualification, guidance in AMIF, the Open University of Lower Saxony
and Kiron University - uniT: creative and artistic work in the study spaces (guidance, competence portfolios), Austrian
universities’ project for refugees and asylum seekers (More) and the work at FH Joanneum University
of Applied Sciences - CESIE: Creative and artistic approach to own work in mentoring, competence checks,
qualifications and guidance. Cooperation projects with the University of Palermo - CARDET: Expertise in e-learning; cooperation projects with the University of Nicosia
- VIFIN: Expertise in designing online language courses. Vifin also cooperates with Vejle
Municipality, Danish Universities and companies for a SMART U (smart-u.dk), where it is possible
for municipal employees and residents to take an online university degree or training course.
Results
- WELCOME Study Laboratories. The visits are integrated into the work of the consortium partners and
distributed to important stakeholders on a political and administrative level - WELCOME Learning materials
Partners
- Coordinator: uniT – Verein für Kultur an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Austria)
- VIFIN – Videnscenter for Integration (Denmark)
- VNB – Verein Niedersächsischer Bildungsinitiativen e.V. (Germany)
- CARDET Centre for Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology Ltd (Cyprus)
- CESIE (Italy)
