<< Objectives >>The project aims to achieve the following objectives:1.To contribute to increased cooperation and innovation in promoting inclusion and diversity at organization level and policies in the field of education and training;2.To promote the exchange of practice on how foster refugees inclusion in the participating organizations and the local educational community levels in order to tackle learning disadvantage;3.International and local workshops to share the result.<< Implementation >>In order to achieve the above-mentioned objective, there will be organized several activities:1.Review the whole-school approach in order to focus on refugee needs;2.desk research on potential best practices already identified on refugees’ integration in general and with Ukrainian refugees in particular at Eu level;3.an international workshop and 4 local workshops to be held in Belgium, Italy, Greece and Czech Republic;4.the communication activities to disseminate the project.<< Results >>The project will have to main project results:1.pedagogical support tool (PST) that is based on the whole-school approach to foster refugee integration;2.best practices document (BPD) that has mapped some best practices on the refugee integration with particular attention to the recent Ukrainian one at Eu and local levels

"CONTEXT/BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECTThe effects and consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted in the last six months require immediate action, especially for the most disadvantaged people. The lockdown made compulsory by the government's indications has very different effects depending on the income, which poses huge problems in terms on how to ensure access, equity and inclusion in the learning environment. The OECD the 19th of October 2020 in its ""What is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrants and their children?"" states that ""The school closures and distance learning measures put in place to slow the spread of COVID‑19 put children of immigrants at a disadvantage, in several ways. Their parents tend to have fewer resources than native-born parents to help them in their homework, and 40% of native-born children of immigrants do not speak the host-country language at home. Such children are also less likely than students with native-born parents to have access to a computer and an internet connection at home or to a quiet place for study.""The Eu ""Digital Education Action Plan, 2021-2027"", report says that from one side it is important ""to increase the digital impact of the Erasmus programme"" while on the other that ""One of the key results of the consultation process was that while there is some indication of the wider impact of COVID-19 on education and training, it is still too early to conclude on its long-term consequences. Gathering more experience and conducting research into the lasting effects over a longer time period is therefore necessary.""In light of what has been said, then, the project intends:1. contribute to the gathering more experience of what is happening on the ground, by carrying out a research, on the effects of the pandemic on the learning and teaching process as expressed in the European Commission document to, in particular, youth with migrant background, by also paying special attention to the use of digital tools;2. increase the skills of teachers, trainers, youth workers, associations dealing with youth with migrant background on how to deal with the effects that the pandemic has on learning and teaching to young people of migrant origin.As far as the target group is concerned, while the indirect beneficiaries are young people of foreign origin, the direct ones will be represented by members of the organizations participating in the project, i.e. teachers, trainers, researchers, youth workers and associations of migrants and their children.NUMBER-PROFILE OF PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONSThe partnership consists of 5 organisations. It consists of school (2nd Vocational High School of Katerini, Greece), one foundation (Fundacion Red Incola, Spain) and an association/research centre (ECEPAA - Belgium), one youth organization (JOINT) and one migrant and youth with migrant background association (AMECE). Each of the organizations chosen contributes to forming a strategic consortium both because, it makes its own contribution in terms of expertise and because the different needs expressed.DESCRIPTION OF UNDERTAKEN MAIN ACTIVITIESThere will be 1 main activities beyond the traditional project management activity that will be the development of the DO-IT digital publication.METHODOLOGY USEDThe main methodology a part the traditional project cycle management activity, is the one dealing with social science action research methodology.RESULTS AND IMPACT ATTAINEDa 150/180 pages of a digital publication on how to better manage the effects of the Corona virus pandemic on the learning and teaching to young people of foreign origin, by also taking in consideration the use of digital tool.LONGER-TERM BENEFITS1. promoting the social inclusion of people coming from a migrant and low socio-economic background;2. contributing to increasing the skills of teachers and trainers in dealing with learning and teaching to young people of foreign origin, by also taking in consideration the use of digital tool;3. contributing to reducing early school leaving of youth with migrant background."

<< Background >>This project proposal starts from an essential need: the reduced capacity of the consortium to work transnationally and, especially, in a cross-sectoral approach to address youth with migrant background drop-out. Schools are often left to their fate and must deal with the problem of migrant youth dropping-out most of the times on their own. Youth organizations, chambers of commerce, associations of young people of foreign origin as well as training centers go their own way as well. They only become aware of the problem when it affects them directly.Many studies and research conducted over the past years have largely demonstrated how students who belong to disadvantaged groups, and among these those who come from a migrant background, have a higher risk of dropping out of school than natives. The Covid pandemic19 has already shown how this risk has further increased. The issue of early school leaving and that of social inclusion are a key points of the new Erasmus + programming. For a number of years now, we have advocated on the importance to take a holistic approach to the issue of education and to conceive education as a task entrusted to a broader community: that is why we applied to this project.<< Objectives >>The general objective of this proposal is to contribute in trigger modernization and to reinforce the response of education and training systems and youth policies to the main challenges provided by the migrant youth school drop-out and social exclusion, by building the capacity of the consortium to work transnationally and with a cross-sector approach. By implementing this project we want to achieve: 1. an opened synergies and reinforced cooperation with local organizations/partners active in different fields than education, training and youth or in other socio-economic sectors (strengthening collaboration among all actors within schools, as well as with families and other external stakeholders); 2. an increased allocation of financial resources (other than EU funds) to organize EU/international projects in the field of education, training and youth; 3. an increased quality in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow-up of EU/international projects and increased capacity and professionalism to work at EU/international level: improved management competences and internationalization strategies.<< Implementation >>YOUCAN project plans several activities.3 transnational meetings will provide the places and the time to monitor the activities carried out. There will also be 6 Organization to Organization (O2O) tailored trainings during which a participant will take part in a week of training at another organization that is part of the consortium with the aim of reinforcing the cooperation with local organizations/partner, increasing allocation of financial resources (other than EU funds) to organize EU/international projects in the field of education, training and youth and increasing quality in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow-up of EU/international projects and increased capacity and professionalism to work at EU/international level. 2 project results will be produced: YOUCAN best practices publication: will identify best practices coming from projects that have focused on the importance of cross-sectoral cooperation to address youth with migrant dropout from school.YOUCAN toolkit publication: the toolkit will have a very practical objective: training members of the participating organizations in increasing the quality in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow-up of EU/international projects and increased capacity and professionalism to work at EU/international level by better knowing the project cycle management. There will also be 1 learning, teaching, training during which participants will be trained to using the YOUCAN toolkit. There will be also 6 local multiplier events and 1 final multiplier event during which the project activities and results will be disseminate.<< Results >>Once the project is concluded, the partnership will have some increased competencies in working across borders and across sectors. Not only that. The organization of a O2O training, a kind of job shadowing, that will be carried out by a participant at another organization will allow to have direct and specific experience of the skills of the members of the host organization. In addition, at the end of the project and still in general terms, it will be possible to observe an increased synergy and cooperation among the organizations that are part of the consortium, which will allow to have increased the allocation of financial resources from sources other than the Eu funding. The last aspect to be considered that will remain once the project is concluded an increased skill in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and follow-up of EU/international projects. Besides, during the project several results will be acquired. To begin with, 6 types of training reports resulting from training that a partnership member will have done at another organization. At the end of the project, instead, the following results will be acquired. - 1 Memorandum of Understanding and cooperation among the consortium signed by each organization participating to the consortium; - 3 projects participation coming from 3 calls for proposals to other than Eu funds; - 1 best practice publication: of about 50/80 pages in the languages of the countries participating in the project (French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Portuguese) to which English will be added; - 1 toolkit publication: of about 30/50 pages in the languages of the countries participating in the project (French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Portuguese) to which, again, English will be added.