Supporting practitioners to train Migrants in

Europe - Support Me

The “Support Me” project stems from the first DIME project (2015-2018): “Developing a referential of skills and training modules favoring the Inclusion of Migrants to Europe” with four Mediterranean countries (Italy, Spain, Greece and France) that issued a competence framework and a set of training modules.

During the experimental phase of the DIME project, practitioners and especially volunteer trainers involved in the experimentation in the 4 partner countries expressed a strong urge for training and guidance. Implementing a DIME-based programme with migrant audiences can thus prove difficult to some practitioners who feel they lack proper training.

"Support Me" will focus on fundamental issues as, for instance, the notions of cultures, “cultural conflict” and psychosocial risks, legal status, thus enabling the participants to identify and understand more thoroughly the diversity of migrant audiences, the precarious situations facing them and their specific needs. It should also question receiving and supporting practices so as to contribute to their evolution.

The trainers also ask for supporting them to implement the DIME participative methods and active technics “learning by doing”.

Main objectives

• To guide and train to the migrant public’s specificity thanks to an interdisciplinary approach
• To upgrade the competences of practitioners in order to meet with the specific training needs of migrant audiences and implement DIME optimally.
• To meet with the expectations of a significant number of volunteers who demand to upgrade their skills
• To train the practitioners to assess, develop and highlight the migrants’ skills, focusing on key competences and soft skills, so as to improve the social and professional inclusion of migrants.

The partnership consists of training organisations, research facilities or universities, and volunteers, all committed in trainers’ training and support of migrants. Specifically:

• France
  • INSUP – Project coordinator
  • AIFRISSS

• Italy
  • Programma integra

• Germany
  • BUPNET

• Spain
  • Huelva university and Andalucia Acoge

• Greece
  • Edra and IASIS

The project is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and has a duration of 36 months (1/9/2019 – 31/8/2022).

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