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VIRTUAL INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR ADULT PEOPLE: VOLUNTEERS AND REFUGEES

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2017-1-ES01-KA204-038211
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for adult education Funder Contribution: 122,958 EUR

VIRTUAL INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR ADULT PEOPLE: VOLUNTEERS AND REFUGEES

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During the last years, a strategic and intersectoral partnership of 6 entities (REDTREE, ASOCIACIÓN DE JÓVENES MUSULMANES EN VALENCIA, GIOVANNI MUSULMANI ITALIA, SMALLCODES, EUROPEAN LANGUAGE EQUALITY NETWORK and GRETA DU VELAY) concerned for social inclusion and education has developed the project “VIRTUAL INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR ADULT PEOPLE: VOLUNTEERS AND REFUGEES”, with the objective of developing an impactful educational tool capable of not only achieveing the objectives proposed in the official curriculum, but also of increasing the interest of the students and improving their living conditions.Adult education and training are often hampered by the lack of clear and stimulating goals for these students; this happens either because it is not adapted to the real needs of students, or because it has no practical consequences for their daily lives.This is why VIVAR has been created: an e-learning platform capable of promoting an effective learning for adult persons, thanks on the one hand to the exclusive programming of the platform, which is able to identify the previous knowledge of the users and adapt its contents to them, and on the other hand because it seeks to solve real and daily needs of the users.In order to achieve this, VIVAR promotes the education of adults through volunteer work with migrant persons. Volunteer social service can be the activity that encourages adults to improve their education, and it opens up job opportunities in the 3rd sector. With the collaboration between social organizations that work specifically on these issues and adult education centers, a practical educational process has been created to allow adult users to develop the skills and knowledge necessary for volunteering (from the development of basic skills, basic knowledge of English and Arabic, and digital skills). These contents have been created in close collaboration with migrants and refugees, one of the beneficiary groups of the volunteer activity.But this project also directly promotes the inclusion of migrant and refugee persons, offering them the tools for their integration through an e-learning platform that adapts to their specific needs, in their native languages, which develops not only their basic skils, but also provides the necessary guidelines and knowledge for their inclusion in Europe. These contents have also been developed in close collaboration with migrants and refugees, and with experts in the field of volunteering.Thus, the VIVAR platform proposes an intelligent virtual and telematic learning system, capable of defining the user profile (their previous knowledge, languages, needs...) and creating personalized learning paths to allow them to volunteer to develop skills (both basic and specific) and certify their learning by allowing NGOs to guide their learning process, in turn becoming tutors of refugees with the support of organizations with experience in education.This system also includes specific educational modules to improve the inclusion of migrants and refugees through the development of their basic skills -reading, writing, math, and digital skills-, certifying their learning in a document endorsed by the partner and collaborating entities.During these years, a sustainable strategic partnership was established that is achieving good results in the fields of education and inclusion, where not only these 6 partner entities are active, but also more and more collaborating entities that are getting new users to use the platform and that more entities benefit from and disseminate this result to enhance the training of volunteers and adults. All of this has been done thanks to the 5 Transnational Meetings held, 1 large Multiplier Event, various dissemination activities among expert multipliers in the beneficiary groups, various national activities for the development of the results, multiple evaluation activities carried out in adult education centers linked to Greta du Velay (France), and 4 pilot tests with each of the beneficiary groups.In short, we have developed an impactful tool with a great future ahead that is being implemented by dozens of European entities (adult education centers, NGOs and companies) and has currently issued more than 80 certificates that have allowed these adult students to improve their educational training, qualify for higher degrees, facilitate their inclusion, and offer new avenues for their socialization.

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