"<< Background >>Asylum seekers and refugees have been a global problem for centuries.No effective policy, strategy and implementation has yet been produced on this issue. According to 1951 Geneva Convention, Refugee; is an individual living abroad of the country of citizenship and doesn't have access to protection of this country or doesn't want to access because of the fear at issue, who is scared, for justifiable reasons, of being oppressed because of his/her race, religion, nationality, allegiance to a certain social group or political opinions. Asylum seeker is an individual who is intendment of law not admitted as refugee yet and waiting for the results of asylum application. As it is seen in the definitions, refugees and asylum seekers left their countries for justifiable reasons because of necessity. In the EU Council Concluding Declaration titled “Strategic Framework for Cooperation in Education and Training”, one of the 4 main objectives of Education and Training 2020 is to promote equality, social cohesion and active citizenship.The importance of active citizenship stems from the fact that individuals have the power and potential to create a better society by directly and positively contributing to the society they live in. The reason why active citizenship is becoming increasingly important is that it is considered as a precaution against social exclusion. In many countries, self-help mechanisms, volunteering and active citizenship are encouraged in the community to overcome social exclusion. The concept of social exclusion includes many socio-economic problems such as poverty, unemployment, marginalization, and ghettoization. Active participation and active citizenship in lifelong learning are among the priorities of Erasmus+ for the period of 2021-2027. In many European countries, the protection and support of democratic values, the development of society, the development of social capital, cultural expression, strengthening social integration, and supporting active citizenship are important. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 2020 data, there are nearly 80 million asylum seekers and refugees worldwide. In the countries forming the consortium, according to UNHCR 2020 data, There are 3,980,000 asylum seekers and refugees in Turkey; 480,300 in Portugal, 437,160 in France, 25,100 in Romania; 119,700 in Greece. In Estonia, 398,700 are foreign nationals. When these data are analyzed, Turkey is the country with the highest number of asylum seekers and refugees worldwide. Our project partners host varying proportions of asylum seekers and refugees. The problems experienced by asylum seekers and refugees during the integration process were effective in the formation of the project idea and the establishment of the project partnership. The mandatory departure of asylum seekers and refugees from their countries is a process involving many vital problems. The grievances experienced by asylum seekers and refugees should be eliminated with a rights-based approach. In countries that accept asylum seekers and refugees, it is important to ensure the rapid integration of asylum seekers and refugees in order to protect and maintain social welfare and to transform them into productive individuals. Recent studies reveal the role of adult education in providing new skills, competencies and social inclusion. The concrete goal of our project is to develop an e-learning module to meet the needs of asylum seekers and refugees for active citizenship in adult education. We aim to provide active citizenship training to asylum seekers and refugees in order to facilitate and accelerate the integration processes of adults into society. We will achieve this goal by providing active citizenship training to asylum seekers and refugees both face-to-face and on the web through the e-module we will develop.<< Objectives >>With our project, we aim to develop an e-learning module in order to raise awareness of asylum seekers and refugees about their rights and obligations and to enable them to be active and participatory. In line with this purpose, we aim to improve the competencies of educators working in universities, public institutions and NGOs in providing ""Active Citizenship for Asylum Seekers and Refugees"" training. We aim to achieve social inclusion by accelerating the integration processes of asylum seekers and refugees into their newly arrived countries through the project partners working with asylum seekers and refugees who have acquired this qualification. It is aimed to increase the institutional capacity by improving the competencies of education administrators and educators. As a result, more asylum seekers and refugees will be reached, student / trainee profile will diversify and multicultural education environments will be created. Thus, we aim to reduce the rate of social exclusion and discrimination among asylum seekers and refugees. We created a consortium by enriching the refugee and asylum-seeker phenomenon with the perspectives of three different sectors (University,Adult Education Institution and NGO). With this multi-perspective comparative analysis, we aim to offer constructive, practical solutions to policy makers, stakeholders, pressure groups, and the active citizenship of asylum seekers and refugees. Our concrete goal in the project is to develop an ""E-Learning Module"" to raise awareness of active citizenship to asylum seekers and refugees. Other goals of the project are: - Comparing the strategies, policies and practices for asylum seekers and refugees - Developing the knowledge, attitudes and skills of adult educators working with refugees and refugees on active citizenship - To provide active citizenship training to asylum seekers and refugees - To ensure that asylum seekers and refugees are aware of their fundamental rights and obligations in the country they live - To ensure that asylum seekers and refugees are sensitive, solution-oriented and participatory to the problems of the city, region, country and world they live in. - To accelerate the integration processes of asylum seekers and refugees into the country where they live. -To improve employment skills of asylum seekers and refugees, Employment opportunities will be increased by adapting the professional knowledge and skills of asylum seekers and refugees to their new country of destination. The procedure that an asylum-seeker or refugee, who is a university student in his/her country of origin, should follow in order to continue his/her university education in his/her new country of origin will be explained. Thus, the protection and best utilization of human capital will be provided. In the e-learning module, health, education, accommodation, language training, employment, legal consultancy, obtaining work permit, workplace licensing, vocational and social courses, hospital interpretation, financial support, women's guest houses, etc. rights will be included. The sections on the rights and obligations of asylum seekers and refugees in the e-learning module will be organized within the framework of the current practices of each country.<< Implementation >>A significant number of asylum seekers and refugees live in the partner countries. Our partners are organizations that actively work with asylum seekers and refugees. Throughout the project, we will conduct a comprehensive comparative analysis by researching policies, strategies and practices regarding asylum seekers and refugees both in the context of partner countries and globally in order to create an e-learning module. These comprehensive comparative analyzes will be synthesized while creating the e-learning module and will allow us to create a functional project product. In addition, we will organize ""Experience Sharing Workshops"" with the participation of academicians, educational administrators, trainers, NGO representatives, asylum seekers and refugees. In these workshops, we will compile a multi-dimensional information, observation and experience from the field by bringing together different sectors (University, Adult Education Institution and NGOs), asylum seekers and refugees. We will benefit from creating the content of the e-learning module by analyzing and reporting the data we collect at the workshop. In our project, we will organize 5 TPM and 1 LTT to develop the e-learnig module ""Active Citizenship for Asylum Seekers and Refugees"". Transnational meetings will allow us to discuss and exchange views for the synthesis of the desk research and the data collected from Experience Sharing Workshops. While sharing the work we do in each TPM, we will also have the opportunity to plan the work we will do until the next TPM. The TPMs we will make will allow both the monitoring and evaluation of the work we carry out for the e-learning module, as well as financial controls and the follow-up of the dissemination plan. These TPMs will also contribute to the creation of synergy between partners by forming international workshop teams to create the content of the e-learning module. Four Elements from Greece will bring the ""Active Citizenship for Asylum Seekers and Refugees"" e-learning module to the web platform. When Four Elements uploads the e-learning module to the web, Tandem Plus from France, Casa Seis from Portugal and Kadıköy Public Education Center from Turkey will do a pilot. Academicians, education administrators, trainers, asylum seekers and refugees will participate in this pilot. Analyzes will be made and reported in the light of the data collected from the pilot applications. Four Elements will finalize the e-learning module in line with the feedback from the pilot application and make it accessible.LTT, which we will organize, is for the training of trainers of the “Active Citizenship for Asylum Seekers and Refugees” e-learning module. With this training activity, the product of the project will be fully understood by the project partners. Participants will organize local seminars, meetings, conferences, etc. and promote the project product. LTT will increase the quality of the promotion and sharing activities of the project.<< Results >>As a result of our project, we will develop the ""Active Citizenship for Asylum Seekers and Refugees"" e-learning module.With this training module, we aim to improve the competencies of academics, education administrators, educators, and NGO representatives working with asylum seekers and refugees, and to provide effective training to asylum seekers and refugees on this issue. The e-learning module, which is the product of the project, will be accessible on the web platform. During the project, the e-learning module financed by the EU will be financed by Marmara University for 7 years and 8 months, and will be updated for 10 years in total. It is expected that the e-learning module, which is the product of the project, will be included in the education programs and training plans of educational institutions (University, Adult Education Institution, NGOs). Brochure, e-brochure, e-newsletter etc. created within the project. It is expected that more asylum seekers and refugees will benefit from the e-learning module by sharing these materials with public and private organizations working with asylum seekers and refugees and NGOs. As a result of our project, we expect asylum seekers and refugees to learn about their rights and obligations thanks to the e-learning module. Asylum seekers and refugees who know their rights and obligations will also be able to protect themselves from abuse. We expect to accelerate the integration process of asylum seekers and refugees into the country where they live, as a result of the trainings that our partners' academics, adult educators and NGO representatives will give using e-learning modules. We also aim to increase the employability rate of asylum seekers and refugees whose integration process is accelerating. We expect the result of realization of social inclusion and prevention of exclusion and discrimination with active citizenship training. As a result of the Active Citizenship training of Asylum Seekers and Refugees, it is aimed to be sensitive, participatory and solution-oriented to the problems of their region, country and world. Sharing the project results with EPALE, national / international policy makers, other stakeholders working with Asylum Seekers and Refugees will result in reaching a wider audience. Thus, we expect the project results to contribute to the development of effective policies at local, regional, national and international levels. At the end of our project, we will obtain scientific data, comparative and comprehensive evaluations and many results/data regarding our applications. We aim to develop cooperation by sharing these results with local, regional, national and international institutions/organizations. We will organize 1 LTT event within the project to improve the competencies of academics, education administrators, educators, NGO representatives on active citizenship of asylum seekers and refugees. LTT participants will reflect the competencies they have gained to their institutions and other stakeholders in their regions. With the seminars, meetings and conferences they will organize in their institutions, they will increase the competence of both the personnel of the institution and other stakeholders. By including more asylum seekers and refugees in their institutions, they will ensure both social inclusion and the creation of multicultural education environments."