To help migrants integrate across the EU, the group must not be limited to the vulnerable role of mere supplicants who file their requests at public offices. Instead, when they enter into contact with the local civil society groups, the immigrants start feeling empowered as individuals and as a group and will therefore speak out more freely about their needs and concerns. The project aims at collecting and multiplying good practices to enhance the know-how of voluntary NGO workers active at the grass-roots level of a given municipality or district. By focusing on local NGOs, the project will allow an exchange of good practices, for example on the ways to provide non-formal education to adult migrants.Slowly but surely, we make progress as we attempt to reach out to vulnerable communities at risk of social exclusion. In the case of each partner organisation we forge new bonds with groups and individuals, winning their trust and encouraging them to participate in our activities in the capacity of our consultants who can offer their invaluable and unique expertise on specific problems of specific groups at a high risk of exclusion. Some of them are nationals of the nearby Ukraine while others originate from Africa, India or Israel. While we offer our consultants an insight into our districts and municipalities, we also draw inspiration from them. Our voluntary workers obtain unique in-depth knowledge about other people and about cultural differences and they obtain it from person-to-person contacts rather than the mass media. We wish to share this knowledge and experience with others for mutual benefit and with a hope to lay the groundwork for more acceptance of immigrants in our societies, acceptance that is founded on profound and direct individual contacts with those newly arrived. This exchange is mutually enriching, especially as we learn to be guides to our home country.

"The subject of the project has been ""universities"" operating in various European countries in Polish: University of Three Generations, University of the Third Age or Open University. Despite their successes in this field the organizers were aware of deficits that occur in their work. Together, they concluded that the exchange of best practice, which will improve the organizational and substantive skills of NGO staff from different countries, will be successful. As a result of joint international meetings and the exchange of good experiences, in some organizations have been observed the following aspects of lectures which afterwards have been applied in other organizations:- setting up of simultaneous interpretation, which lead to a wider reception of the audience- looking for a prestigious venue, which decisively influences the invitation of lecturers and listeners- reaching potential listeners who speak the language of the country in which we live, including immigrants- outgoing education outside the lecture hall as it was in Budapest (ecological education - planting trees), or vernissages (post lecture meetings in Berlin or art exhibitions in Warsaw)- focusing on intergenerational dialogue, ensuring the participation of listeners of all ages- documenting and disseminating of all meetingsThe projects implemented so far for each of the partner organizations are various concepts of informal adult education carried out on their own. Each partner has developed its own methods and specialized in certain aspects of activities.During the networking project, the strongest aspects of each partner's activities were identified and implemented - in direct cooperation with other NGOs - in each partner's own activities.In this way, at one time, within one project, five partner organizations took advantage of the experience of others and will develop the optimal formula for organizing non-formal education for adults.This will be further facilitated by a database created by all partners and in the future consistently fed with information such as lecture topics, proposals and contacts to specific lecturers, and other ideas that can improve lectures.19 people from 5 non-governmental organizations took part in the project. They were participants who directly take an active part in organizing ""Universities"" in their own country. People from Italy were particularly interested in creating a similar university at home, hence their participation in the project. Strengthened with new ideas, motivated and more confident we carry out further lectures.The aim of the project was to provide volunteers and associates of partner organizations with opportunities to exchange best practice samples and further develop competences in logistics as well as substantive educational projects. We want to educate people who decide on the topics of lectures, select lecturers, recruit them, deal with popularizing, documenting lectures, and acquire students. The level and attractiveness of their universities, individual lectures, and, consequently, the strength of impact on students (recipients) and the popularity of this form of informal adult education depends on the quality of their knowledge and experience.The partners of this project will be more effectively involved in educational activities that promote the best aspects of the cultures of individual EU countries in the context of a united Europe."