I Xenios Zeus: Managing the refugee and migrant flows through the development of educational and vocational frames for children and adults

Project Number: GR3

Country: Greece

Institutions/Departments: PROJECT APPLICANT - PROJECT COORDINATOR: Regional Directorate of Primary & Secondary Education of Central Macedonia, Thessaloniki
GREEK PARTNERS: Faculty of Education, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki; School of Modern Greek Language, Thessaloniki, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Cartographic Heritage Archives, National Historical Archive of Macedonia, Thessaloniki; Center for Addiction Prevention and Health Promotion in Western Thessaloniki “DIKTIO ALPHA (NGO), Thessaloniki, Municipality of Peonia (Idomeni); Municipality of Delta (Diavata); Faculty of Education, University of West Macedonia, Florina 

URL: http://xenioszeus.uowm.gr/el/perigrafh_programmatos/

Publication/Material: http://xenioszeus.uowm.gr/el/glosiko_upostiriktiko_uliko/

Project leader and contact person: Regional Directorate of Primary & Secondary Education of Central Macedonia, Thessaloniki

Duration: 01-09-2016 until 31-08-2018

Short Description:

The project aims to alter the ways that specific institutions (e.g. universities, archives, and municipalities) pedagogically cope with the refugee flow in northern Greece. It will design, create and distribute knowledge material, a toolbox with activities and instructions, and a series of training programs implicating adult refugees and their children. Its scope is to develop linguistic literacy, IT-based literacy as well as to inform refugees in human rights subjects. The project will draw on material from the Cartographic Heritage Archives to develop an effective use of maps to familiarize refugees with the geography of their place residence and its cultural specificities and work with local communities to raise awareness of refugees, the phenomenon and issues. Partners will work together at national and European levels. 

Implementation: Cooperation between the Regional Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education, participating municipalities, experts in refugee issues and Greek as a second language, to provide refugees with basic literacy skills, develop trusting relations with local people, and prepare for a smooth transition abroad.

Target Group(s), age & context: Adult refugees and their children, teachers, teacher trainers, stakeholders of non-formal education

Approach/Method: 1) Development of an applicable toolbox for child refugees and potentially trainee-refugees as well as the teachers-trainers who will be called to instruct the refugees; 2) Organization and implementation of seminars for teachers, researchers and stakeholders who take action on the subject of the educational use of refugee/migrant flows

Type: Workshops, seminars, teacher training

Funding: Co funded by the European Union, Erasmus+ KA2 Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practices, Regional Directorate of Primary School & Secondary Education of Central Macedonia

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