"<< Background >>Many migrants have dramatic and traumatic experiences of war, flight, separation, loss and grief, as well as strong needs for safe relocation and integration into the new society. According to global estimates by the World Health Organisation, ""one in five (22.1 per cent) of the adult population in conflict-affected areas has mental health problems. That baseline is about two to three times higher than the level in people in general, according to other studies"". These are very high numbers, and now, on top of the problems they already have, there are those of the pandemic. If it was already difficult to overcome their anxiety and depression, with COVID-19 these illnesses increase. All this background is linked to the priorities of recognising young people's work and their sense of initiative, since without mental stability, they will not be able to have the entrepreneurial spirit that we want to achieve, so that all refugees can be trained and have their working future among their priorities.Psychosocial problems are compounded by school dropouts, lack of integration into the labour market and social isolation, among others, but it should also be noted that they have great resources because they have managed to escape from their countries under very difficult conditions. That is why we want to emphasise that they have the initiative and the desire to learn the language, the culture and work, but we must help them to achieve this, as one of the problems they have is the lack of socialisation with the rest of the local youth. In order to help them to get good job recognition, the importance of psychosocial well-being must be emphasised. Having good education and learning activities increases self-esteem, reduces depression and improves resilience, regardless of previous adversities.Although there are several organisations and volunteers helping refugees, we would like to stress that there is no close relationship between these young people and the locals. That is why we see the need to establish a connection between them so that they can have a good relationship and so that the refugees can overcome this barrier of sociability and integration. We want to achieve the results of the priorities: intercultural dialogue, knowledge and recognition of diversity and the promotion of tolerance are key to this priority.That is why we see a great need to realise this project, as there are currently many migrants with primary needs in our environment. Thanks to the realisation of ""YOU4mi"", we will be able to help and achieve a better integration in different cities in Europe, with the intention to extend this idea to many more cities.<< Objectives >>The aim of this project is the integration of young migrants in Europe, following the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Due to the crises that many young people live in their countries of origin (economic crises, wars, political conflicts, etc.), many of them are looking for a way out to start a better life. That is why for many years these migratory movements have been taking place in various countries around the world. We will focus on these movements in Europe. We want to facilitate the way for all these young people who arrive in a country without knowing anything, so that they can be helped by the local citizenship, thus supporting a peer-to-peer methodology.It will consist of each partner bringing together a number of refugees and a number of local young people so that they can be trained in different subjects and enriched by each other. A series of training materials will be prepared and explained by the locals to the migrants, so that they can be more autonomous and trained in different areas. It will also be a great opportunity for both groups to get to know each other and to establish friendships that will last into the future. In order to gather all these materials, a web platform will be created where both partners and young people and anyone interested can access to learn more about the project, having the material available at their fingertips.The importance of integration among young people and how some of these problems can be solved is fundamental. Newcomers are in a process of transition and often integration is complicated and they find themselves isolated, not only physically but also personally. This will be the best protection against segregation, isolation in parallel societies, otherness, lack of affiliation and, in the worst case, attraction to banditry and radicalisation.<< Implementation >>There are three sections to be highlighted: the results, the multiplier events and the training activities. The aim of all of them is to achieve intercultural understanding and socio-cultural integration between local and migrant youth. This will be achieved through the activities carried out and the methods taught.PROJECT RESULTS:For each outcome, different methods will be achieved and the following objectives will be reached:-First result ""Analysis and research"" (R1): Thanks to the research and analysis of the migration situation in each partner country, a comprehensive report on the needs in each region can be elaborated and a bridge between the core concepts and the practical integration and intercultural understanding among young people can be achieved.-Second result ""Recruitment and training of young migrants"" (R2): The target group of this result is migrants, so it will be necessary to find out their needs in order to meet the project objectives and to reach as many refugees as possible so that they can improve and broaden their training.-Third outcome ""Recruitment and training of local youth"" (R3): In this case, we will focus on the training of local youth, who must be familiar with the activities to be carried out in order to be able to explain them to the migrants later on. It is essential that they are participants who are willing to collaborate and are not prejudiced, in order to achieve good integration.Fourth result ""Migrant and local programme"" (R4): The aim is to bring together local and migrant young people so that they can exchange their experiences and empower themselves, improving their self-esteem and learning capacity, achieving this involvement among all of them.-Fifth output ""Web Platform"" (R5): In order to make participants feel more involved, although MAD for Europe is responsible for making the website, everyone will be able to contribute with their suggestions and ideas. Thanks to this platform, it will be possible to store all the activities carried out, including the network guidelines and the integration tools produced by the participants themselves.MULTIPLIER EVENTS:The aim of these events is that participants can disseminate the training learned and their testimony, so that they can reach more people and serve as something useful for the future. The impact will be very positive, and so will the empowerment they will gain from belonging to a supportive community.TRAINING ACTIVITIES:In order for the staff of each organisation to be well involved, the coordinators will organise a training course and in each transnational meeting there will always be a training part, thus being able to get a full knowledge of the situation of migrants in Europe. The aim is to present, train and achieve a common understanding of the conceptual basis and its practical implications for the project activities through common exercises and reflections. In addition, young people are also to be trained before engaging with refugees by teaching them a variety of creative and ""non-verbal"" methods and mixed group interactions.<< Results >>In order to ensure that the results are kept active and can continue to be used, MAD for Europe will keep both the web platform and the social media active, with no expiry date. This means that all the material created for the project will be publicly available for anyone interested to access and use, free of charge. It is important to note that everything will be freely accessible. This is because there will be several organisations that are in contact with the project partners and want to obtain the materials, in order to make a good dissemination of the project. In addition, we will also publish the activities related to the project that will be published later on, once the project is finished. We will encourage partners to send us messages about similar activities to be posted on the website and social media for further dissemination.But the dissemination of these results will not only be on the project's media and social networks: we also want to publish them on specific platforms related to the main topic, both on European project portals and on organisations specialised in refugees. In this way, it will be able to reach a large impact to various users. As mentioned above, you do not want to impact only the partner countries, but you want to reach more European countries, so that they are well aware of the project and can make use of it.There will be two types of activities to achieve a good dissemination: a strategy that directly targets specific target groups, and a strategy that targets a wide audience. To achieve both, the following tools will be used:1) Web platform (R5): being an open and free of charge website, it will reach many people in an easy and accessible way. At the beginning of the project, all activities and results will be published on the website. The working language will be English, although each partner will translate it into their own language to put it on the websites of their organisations. The URL address of the official website will be linked to the main search engines on the web (e.g. Google, Yahoo, etc.).2) Social networks: channels will be created on different social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, being able to connect in a direct way with young people, as most of them are very active on these platforms. Attractive publications will be shared so that they can be shared by users and reach more people.3) Project Logo and Information Leaflet: each country will have to prepare a leaflet in their language and disseminate it to different organisations and institutions. It will contain the Erasmus+ logo on the homepage, the project logo, project introduction, objectives, scope, activities, website, contact email and partnership addresses.4) Publication of digital articles on different web platforms of the partners to generate local media impact.5) Audio-visual products: partners will have to take photos and videos of all their activities and publish them, thus keeping the project active.4) Press releases to achieve a wider local diffusion and also to announce the participation to the events, e.g. for multiplier events."

The S.U.C.RE. Project is a two-year KA2 Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership in the field of Higher Education granted by the Hellenic National Agency via the European Commission. It was Coordinated by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the consortium also consisted of the University of Cologne, Vrije Universeteit Amsterdam and the Greek Council for Refugees. It has produced three extensive free online publications and four free digital courses which answer two main objectives 1) They establish how universities can facilitate tertiary pathways and the successful completion of an academic curriculum for refugee students and scholars. 2) They analytically explore the role played by Higher Education Institutions, in collaboration with stakeholders in order to provide support and training opportunities for practitioners helping the general refugee population. In more detail, the first two publications identify the main challenges that stand in the way for refugee students trying to access higher education and for those refugee students after admittance. These publications subsequently develop tools to overcome them establishing a repository of best practice strategies to support refugee students in transitioning from community to university. Those publications, were built using a plethora of approaches including, a desk study with research on 120 European Universities, a more focused European University online survey on 39 of them, round table discussions with University representatives and interviews with university advisors as well as refugee students.The third publication successfully sets the path for identifying the needs of scholars and their hosts for their proper integration into HEIs. Through three extended surveys, challenges and potential solutions for improving the placement of refugee scholars/scholars at risk at universities across Europe have been mapped out and substantiated. and a number of good practices were identified and documented. All three above publications constitute valuable assets for European Universities and Institutions for policy and decision making.As regards the digital courses, the first one is on Psychosocial Support of refugee population and 1) includes a brief presentation of the main thematic categories identified in practitioner’s interviews. 2) analyses some important assumptions and considerations from the relevant literature, such as debates on the conceptualization of ‘crisis’ and the rhetoric of emergency, models of integration, and perspectives of psychosocial interventions. and 3) proposes examples of ‘good practices’. The course on the role of Sport in refugees’ social integration identifies a number of difficulties that may hinder the effective implementation of sport activities in camps and proposes a set of non competitive games to overcome such problems. The course concerned with Health includes sections on First Aid, common emergency occurrences, alongside with emphasis on CPR, sexually transmitted disease prevention, basic hygiene rules, and national vaccination programs. The course on Legal issues consists of parts on: 1) Useful Definitions on Asylum Law, 2) The Refugee Status Determination, 3) Asylum Procedures, 4) Reception Conditions, 5) Administrative Detention of Asylum seekers and 6) Extended chapters dedicated to issues of social security. In all cases, field staff will also find practical advice in the form of dedicated manuals of good practices for field testing. All the above online course were built after extensive working with focus groups and based on feedback from events attended by professionals and volunteers working in the field and having direct contact with the everyday challenges the immigrants and their caretakers face in camps. The material provides trainers with needed extended information filling a gap in organized training material on supporting refugees on health and legal issues. S.U.C.RE. has throughout paid a lot of attention on disseminating its activities and deliverables around Europe and beyond using its database of more than 500 local, national and international stakeholders (including European Universities, relevant NGOs, municipal authorities, EU policy contact persons, refugee welcoming centers’ staff). It has organised four highly successful multiplier events. Its members have participated in 72 different dissemination activities (in many cases as invited speakers) spreading the word for the importance of refugee student and scholar integration as well as for the need of support of general refugee population through constantly informed and well educated practitioners. It has provided hope, empowerment and a sense of security for refugees, guidance for University staff, and support for practitioners in the field. It has also created new and strengthened existing ties among Universities and Stakeholders paving the way for future effective inclusion of refugees in Europe.

Context: Now that we are living through a humanitarian calamity of historic proportions with individuals facing complex and painful processes in their adaptive pathways to European societies, we believe films can and should more often convey successful stories of refugees’ social inclusion in their newly adopted homeland. But is it really so? Have the negative social beliefs surrounding refugees been replaced by those of social inclusion more in tune with developments in multicultural societies? Are the achievements of former well-included refugees into EU societies, where they live today, sufficiently or prominently displayed enough, highlighting a central modelling role, that newcomers’ can aspire to? Objectives: RefugeesIN stands for adult learning opportunities to social inclusion by critical analysis of European cinema and documentary film making on inspiring refugees' life stories. The purpose was to create an exploitable Pack of innovative and creative cinema-based assets for empowering, extending and developing adult educators (and social work staff) competencies, so that they are able to take an active stand against all forms of discrimination and racism, to meet the needs of adult learners (refugees/asylum seekers) from diverse backgrounds, to impart common fundamental values and to prevent and combat xenophobia, intolerance and promote their social inclusion. Cinema is used as a tool for breaching stereotypes and portraying actual and inspiring life stories of well-included former refugees and having a modelling role for the newcomers’ social inclusion. Partnership: six participating organisations, most with a joint history of cooperative work at European level, covering the expertise required and mobilising a team of highly skilled professionals on psychology, active citizenship, social inclusion and refugee issues, educational/training fields/ technical and methodological research methods. It was strengthened by a Greece partner, without experience in the ERAMUS+ programme, but with the unique expertise of a NGO exclusively dedicated to refugee issues and member of European Council on Refugees and Exiles /ECRE. The partners came from diverse geographical areas, socio-historical and cultural backgrounds, core business and type of organisations: Research-action, HR Consulting & Adult Learning Provider; Adult Education Agencies, Nationwide civil society organisation, a Faculty School of Film, Art & Creative Technologies and an NGO, expert in refugee issues. The Consortium was pooling together the required expertise in the financial, technical and scientific areas as well as in European experience to fulfil the objectives. Main activities: 1) Desk research - qualitative techniques on social inclusion and role modelling literature review and EU cinematography review, selecting paradigmatic feature-length films on refugees’ social inclusion; 2) Collecting, by interviews, social inclusion successful life stories of former refugees; 3) Testing the Course and Producing 12 short documentaries films, within cinema workshops, where multicultural teams (educators and refugees) shoot the films; 4) Creating a methodological Guide for the best use of the assets; 5) Editing and Packing the assets; 6) ensuring quality of the outputs; 6) promoting the outcomes by regular communication and involvement of the target audience and stakeholders in Project activities and dedicated events and 7) ensuring project visibility and sustainability.Results and impact: 1) the RefugeesIN brand image that established an identity and positive image of the project. The logo is an appealing and symbolic graphic mark aiding to promote instant public recognition of the name of the project and its main topic; 2) the RefugeesIN Package - with Brochure, Film Catalogue, Course (Curriculum and Manual) and Guide, in six languages PT; DE; IT; SL: EN; and EL, was widely promoted by all the partners, at different levels and by diversified means and channels.The short-term impact can be measured by the people reached by the valorisation activity undertaken during the life time of the project, being remarkable the total number achieved of 87.291 individuals / organisations, which almost doubled the result in the interim report of 44.000 and that is almost 12 times the foreseen number in the application (7.426).Longer-term benefits: after the project end, the impact will be measured by the number of users of the dedicated website, social media page and channels well as attendance of activities foreseen (RefugeesIN KA1 Course and yearly Conferences & Film Festivals) and the level of compliance and scope of the exploitation strategies established by each of the partners. At the moment there are already 19 organisations / professionals who declare that they are using / intend to use the package and the resources produced in their professional activity, so we can say that RefugeesIN is already being sustainable (see exploitation report).