BuddyMigrants

Building inclusive communities through intercultural Education in schools.

Project Details

Project Name: BuddyMigrants: Building inclusive communities through intercultural Education in schools.
Programme: Erasmus+
Priority: KA220-SCH – Cooperation partnerships in school education
Project ID: KA220-SCH-D517F124
Website: Buddy migrants
Social media: LinkedIn
Duration: 01/09/2022 to 31/08/2024
Topics: Bridging intercultural, intergenerational and social divide. Inclusion, promoting equality and non-discrimination. Pedagogy and didactics.

Project Description

The BuddyMigrants project aims to address the barriers faced by newly-arrived third country natonal (TCN) families in the project countries in accessing the social services (access to information, health, education, employment) as well as to contribute to creating inclusive environments that foster social inclusion, equity and equality, and that are responsive to the needs of the wider communities in the project countries.

Outreach to TCN families will be done through education, awareness raising, and mobilization of school communities of which they are members.

Project consortium

Project Coordinator:
Blenders vzw – Belgium

Partners

  • The Square Dot team – Belgium
  • Synthesis Center for Research and Education Limited – Cyprus
  • InterAktion – Verein für ein interkulturelles Zusammenleben – Austria
  • Drustvo za Razvijanje Prostovoljne ga Dela Novo Mesto – Slovenia
  •  Innovation Hive –  Greece

Project Results

WP1 – Project Management

WP2 – Pedagogical toolkit and curriculum for  teachers

WP3 – Online educational platform

WP4 – Inclusive local networks and local actions

WP5 – Communication and Dissemination

Impact

The BuddyMigrants aims to increase the capacities of teachers in integrating the intercultural and global citizenship dimension in their teaching approach, and in teaching in multicultural classrooms. It also aims to increase knowledge of EU native parents and students about inequalities and cultural diversity, mobilization of parents and students in actions which promote social inclusiveness, and boost the capacity of project partners to work transnationally to provide quality intercultural and global citizenship education.

Our Role

Square Dot Team will be the Leader of WP3 (online educational platform development). Thanks to our experience in designing and implementing web-applications and platforms The Square Dot Team will perform the technical development of the platform.