Month: July 2018

Epsilon International Conference: “LGBT Refugees and Migrants: the Situation in Greece and Europe”

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ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΕΙ ΜΕΤΑΦΡΑΣΗ ΣΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ

The International Conference: “LGBT Refugees and Migrants: the Situation in Greece and Europe” was held successfully in Athens on Tuesday, 9th May 2017, at the President Hotel, in the framework of the Erasmus+ funded project “EpsiLon: Equipping Professionals for Supporting LGBT Refugees”, a unique LGBTI-led project which is currently being implemented by five organizations and institutions from Greece (KMOP), Italy (ANS), Britain (IARS), the Netherlands (MOVISIE) and Cyprus (CARDET). The conference was organized by the Family and Childcare Centre (KMOP) and it was attended by more than 200 participants.

At the conference the findings of the first phase of the Epsilon project were presented, that follows in depth fieldwork involving LGBTI migrants, refugees and professionals that was carried out in 5 countries in Greece, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy and Cyprus.

CARDET, presented the situation of LGBTI refugees and migrants in Cyprus and outlined that Cyprus is a society that tends to build stereotypes around immigrants and refugees and almost all LGBTI migrants and refugees in the island are reluctant to reveal their sexual orientation to their own communities and consequently to the local population because they are afraid.

A common place for all speakers was that it is necessary to provide specialized support to LGBTI refugees and migrants , as well as better training to professionals (interpreters, legal and social workers) working with LGTBI migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. After all, the main aim of the program is to highlight the difficulties that LGBTI migrants and refugees are facing in these countries and to create innovative educational tools to support professionals.

The e-book Supporting and Including LGBTI Migrants: Needs, Experiences and Good Practices” can be downloaded for free here.

If you wish to get involved or for more information please visit project’s website or contact michalis.ioannou@cardet.org.

Διεθνές Συνέδριο: «ΛΟΑΤ πρόσφυγες και μετανάστες: η κατάσταση στην Ελλάδα και την Ευρώπη»

Με μεγάλη επιτυχία ολοκληρώθηκε το Διεθνές Συνέδριο: «ΛΟΑΤ πρόσφυγες και μετανάστες: η κατάσταση στην Ελλάδα και την Ευρώπη», που πραγματοποιήθηκε στην Αθήνα στις 9 Μαΐου του 2017 στο πλαίσιο του ευρωπαϊκού προγράμματος Epsilon (Equipping Professionals for Supporting LGBT Refugees) που οργάνωσε το Κέντρο Μέριμνας για την Οικογένεια και το Παιδί (ΚΜΟΠ). Στο συνέδριο παρουσιάστηκαν τα πρώτα ερευνητικά αποτελέσματα του διετούς προγράμματος, το οποίο υλοποιείται από πέντε οργανώσεις και φορείς από την Ελλάδα (ΚΜΟΠ), την Κύπρο (CARDET), την Ιταλία (ANS), τη Βρετανία (IARS) και την Ολλανδία (MOVISIE) με χρηματοδότηση από την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση.

Ο κυπριακός οργανισμός CARDET παρουσίασε τα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας που διεξήχθη στην Κύπρο και επεσήμανε ότι σύμφωνα με την έρευνα, οι ΛΟΑΤΙ μετανάστες και πρόσφυγες που ζουν στην Κύπρο βιώνουν πολλαπλές διακρίσεις και δείχνουν απροθυμία να δηλώσουν τη σεξουαλική ταυτότητά τους στις κοινότητές τους και στον τοπικό πληθυσμό, γιατί φοβούνται.

Κοινός τόπος όλων των ομιλητών ήταν ότι είναι αναγκαία η παροχή εξειδικευμένης φροντίδας στους ΛΟΑΤΙ πρόσφυγες όπως, επίσης και η εκπαίδευση των επαγγελματιών (διερμηνείς, νομικοί και κοινωνικοί λειτουργοί) που έρχονται σε επαφή μαζί τους. Εξάλλου, στόχος του προγράμματος είναι να φωτίσει τα ζητήματα που αντιμετωπίζουν οι ΛΟΑΤΙ πρόσφυγες στις χώρες αυτές με σκοπό τη δημιουργία καινοτόμων εκπαιδευτικών εργαλείων για την υποστήριξη των επαγγελματιών.

Διαβάστε περισσότερα για την έρευνα εδώ.

Εάν επιθυμείτε να εμπλακείτε με το έργο επισκεφτείτε την ιστοσελίδα του έργου ή επικοινωνήστε στο: michalis.ioannou@cardet.org.

Πολυγλωσσία στο σχολείο: Πηγές και δραστηριότητες

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Η πολυγλωσία και πολυπολιτισμικότητα σε ένα σχολείο είναι παράγοντες που μπορούν να βοηθήσουν το κτίσιμο μιας όμορφης κουλτούρας με μαθητές από διαφορετικά υπόβαθρα. Ως μέρος αυτής της προσπάθειας, ο ερευνητικός οργανισμός CARDET είναι εταίρος στο έργο VALUE, το οποίο αποσκοπεί στην υποστήριξη όλων των γλωσσών που μπορεί να υπάρχουν σε ένα σχολείο. Επισκεφθείτε μας στο facebook και εγγραφείτε εδώ για υλικό και δραστηριότητες που μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσετε.

VALUE partner meeting in Poland

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CARDET is participating in the 4th partner meeting for VALUE in Lotz, Poland. Partners are discussing the materials produced and the feedback received from teachers in different countries. We are pleased to see that the great curriculum prepared was taken up very positively in all countries.

Teachers in primary and secondary schools can visit the website and access the 5 Modules for your personal interest. You can also find a series of activities you can use in your class. Stay tuned for more activities, a toolkit for storytelling and an online multilingual exhibition.

1st SIMILAR project newsletter

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The integration of people immigrating presents a special challenge; it is a complex and long-term undertaking. Everyone should make an effort to foster the successful integration of immigrants. Those in favour of immigration are persons closely working with migrants, they represent educational sectors: teachers, trainers, educators; or social and care sectors: volunteers, social care workers, municipal guards, police etc.

The project SIMILAR aims at fostering integration of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers through a multi-dimensional approach which includes multicultural approach and empowering measures in the areas of integration and social welfare.

This newsletter represents selected highlights of the work done during the first 6 months of the project, through a sample of the latest project outputs and related news stories by project partners.

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“The Treasures of Europe”

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CARDET in collaboration with Cyprus Youth Organization celebrated the 30 Years of the revered European institution Erasmus with an active day of active learning activities and music in the old city of Larnaca on Saturday 6th May.

CARDET participated with 22 of its staff and utilized the resources from 39 of its active educational projects making it the biggest and most representative participations in a single event in its history. The medium of the interaction took the form of an active learning “Treasure hunt” where teams would roam the old city of Larnaca finding the ten stations solving puzzles and answering questions in game format by getting as many points as possible. Each station focused on sharing core European values that Erasmus is supporting via these programs and utilize resources developed in various projects related to this value.

Station 1. “Know and Go” – This station, dealing with Knowledgeable Participation, the participants had to identify some environmental problems and create sustainable solutions through entrepreneurial ideas. The station represented the projects EntrInnO, GIGS and SciFun.

Station 2. “I feel you” – This station, dealing with Empathy and Acceptance, the participants had to engage in a variation of the popular game Taboo by identifying keys concepts describing understanding and tolerance that relate to the idea of global citizenship. The station represented the projects TaSDi-PBS, SIMILAR, E-Evalinto.

Station 3. “I green” – This station, dealing with Environmental Sustainability, and the participants had to use their imagination to identifying keys concepts from a visual representation from the field of environmental sustainability. The station represented the projects EaThink, Climate Literacy and StopMadMining.

Station 4. “Fair Play” – This station, dealing with Equality and Justice, the participants had to metaphorically get in the shoes of persecuted people by placing themselves in an all too real narrative situation where they have limited time to choose what they could carry with them, should a war broke right then and there and let them respond as rationally or emotionally as they can. The station represented the projects Epsilon, Lighthouse and CREATIVE.

Station 5. “I have a voice” – This station, dealing with Citizenship, had the participants discussing the concept the issues pertaining to the refugees, from leaving their homes, to their travels and settlement and integration problems in their new places. The station represented the projects EmpoweringYou, DIMA, SFYouth.

Station 6. “You, Me, All” – This station, dealing with Respect and Inclusion, had the participants rate possible solutions arising from real life difficulties presented to disenfranchised groups like children with learning difficulties, immigrants, religious minorities in the school culture . The station was representing the projects iDecide, YEIP and Us&Them.

Station 7. “Fusion World” – This station, dealing with Multiculturalism, had the participants acknowledge the commonality of human respectfulness by asking participants to identify these globalized words. The station represented the projects VALUE, IDPBC and Polyglot.

Station 8. “Just Act” – This station, dealing with Social Responsibility, asked the participants to test their knowledge by matching both the knowledge of migration patterns throughout the history as well as test their understanding of what differentiates social and solidarity companies to traditional companies based on their conceptual basis as well as practices. The station represented the projects SUSY, ComBus and FYS-Forums.

Station 9. “We move together” – This station, dealing with Solidarity and Collaboration, asked the participants to test their knowledge by answering a knowledge quiz about the global reality of the refugees and a variation of the classic game “Guess Who?” where they had to test their understanding about population movements. The station represented the projects Blend in, MMN, TrainVol.

Station 10 “The Treasure Chest” – Finally the participants informed us whether the treasure hunt was a European funded activity that that they valued and provide suggestion of how it can become even better and provided the team with video testimonials of their views.

The winners received gifts of a total value of 600 Euros, a generous offer of the Cyprus Youth Organization and CYTA and the activities of the Treasure hunt funded by the European Commission.

The Mediterranean Migration Network was launched with a reflections on 5 years of actions and its next steps

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The Mediterranean Migration Network (MMN) organized a meeting to revisit and develop its action plan and future steps, following the renewal of the support it receives from the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund and the Republic of Cyprus. The MMN meeting took place at the University on Nicosia, 27-28 April 2017 in Nicosia, Cyprus. The MMN is coordinated by the international research centre CARDET in collaboration with consulting firm INNOVADE LI ltd.

The meeting attended representatives of services and authorities from the Republic of Cyprus, International Organisations, and NGOs from other EU-countries, such as the University of Nicosia, the UNHCR, Youth board of Cyprus, the Hope for Children CRC Policy centre, the Cyprus Police, the Ministry of Interior, the Asylum Service, European Funds Unit of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Cyprus, the Municipality of Agios Dometios, the Municipality of Agios Athanasios, the Municipality of Engomi, Caritas, the International Organization for Migration and the University of Yale USA.

The objectives of the meeting were:

to understand the mission and objectives of the MMN and discuss its role within the EU and the region,
to share practices and experiences in the field of migration and integration management,
to identify needs and challenges faced by members and to explore ways in which the network can help to address some of the challenges,
to discuss the MMN’s activities and ways in which members can contribute,
to draft a strategic vision and an action plan to secure MMN’s sustainable contribution and support to its members.

The meeting initially conducted a needs assessment among the participants, to identify primarily their expectations and how the MMN could address them. Some of the needs discussed were; the challenges that organizations face today in terms of migration and integration, the members’ expectations in relation to the MMN, the redefinition of the working framework of the MMN, and the suggestion of good practices for actions implementation as a support for the MMN members. Some of the main issues identified and raised were: the migration policies are not unified, there is lack of information and awareness, migrants’ skills and qualifications are not registered while the need to train the staff (both of public and private stakeholders) is essential. There is a lack of cooperation among NGOs and Public Service and not a concrete decision on a European level and hopefully at some point MMN will act as a central platform for EU migration and integration issues.

Further to the needs and challenges assessment, participants discussed on a number of topics the MMN should focus on. Such themes were; the sharing of good and bad practices – participants pointed out that it is important to know the practices established and did not work out; MMN ambassadors within the EU countries in order to promote the work and activities of the MMN; volunteering exchange and the standardization of practice and methodology in an international level.

For more information you can download the minutes of the meeting from the MMN eLibrary (registered users only). If you wish to register to the MMN platform click here.

For all the MMN kick-off meeting presentations click here.

SciFUN Third Partner Meeting in Poland

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The third Transnational Partner Meeting of the Making Learning Science Fun (SciFUN) project was held in Łódź (Poland) during May 16-17, 2017. The main aims of the meeting were to:

Present the completed Transnational report on the sample Cross-Curricular Units and make a decision regarding its incorporation in the toolkit
Express ideas and elaborate on the development of the toolkit
Complete the Curricula for Teachers Professional Development
Delineate action steps to pilot the toolkit and conduct case studies in each partner country
Discuss next steps of the project.

Partners also discussed about the dissemination activities in their country context and a special emphasis was given on the upcoming National Dissemination Seminars during which partners must engage a variety of stakeholders to disseminate the SciFUN toolkit. Following the completion of the transnational meeting, partners will finalise the e-learning platform and toolkit. The next face-to-face meeting and SciFUN European Conference will take place in November 2017 in Romania.

Designing & delivering successful training programs

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CARDET Education is offering the 5-day course “Designing and delivering successful training programs” on June 26-30. The course is subsidized by HRDA.

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Did you ever feel that you had some knowledge that you wanted to share in a formal way, either as part of your job or independently, but you didn’t do it because you were not confident that you had the skills on how to develop a course, and deliver it in an engaging, exciting, and effective way? Our learner-focused, interactive and practical Train the Trainer course will provide you with the basic skills, tools, strategies, knowledge, confidence, and best practices on how to become an effective and engaging trainer who delivers powerful presentations.

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Employability workshops to Employability Educators and young people

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As part of the GetThere-Journey to Employment project, CARDET conducted a series of training events for employability educators and for young people who are looking to increase their employability skills.

The events both took place at the University of Nicosia with great success. The workshops included interactive activities for the learning of employability skills such as Problems Solving and Communication. One such activity was the ‘Egg-Catcher’ activity which aimed to teach young people how to think ahead in problem-solving situations. It involved constructing a ‘landing-pillow’ made out of balloons, paper and straws for an egg to be dropped onto from a height of 2 metres. The overall experience of the course was a positive one. Participants showed great enthusiasm regarding the two modules that were covered: Problem-Solving and Communication. To quote some of them: “Such workshops should be offered more regularly”, “This was super creative and fun”, and “I learned a lot in a very non-boring way”.

According to both groups there is great need for courses that target employability skills.

These sessions provided young people the opportunity to receive professional training on skills that are necessary in today’s competitive market. The course was well-received and respondents showed high engagement with the activities.

On a national scale the field of professional development is still at its early stages. The GetThere project directly addresses the gaps in this area and provides grounds for further development for both employability educators and young people.