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Integration of Refugees: How to make use of Open Education for integrating refugees started by jan.pawlowski

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Posted by jan.pawlowski in category: Project Idea
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OE_REF Open Education for Refugees

*OE_REF Open Education for Refugees
 
How can OER contribute to improve the situation of refugees in Europe? How can we create access even in chaotic situations? Which topics and concrete OER can help refugees to directly improve their situation and support integration? How can we also use refugees' knowledge to improve integration and communication?
 
The idea aims to create a project around OER with different questions, including access, realization, and experimentation.
 

  • hejupirk

    Could we have some situational and context specific approach, let's say for Finland separately? What do you think?

Initial idea / vision

Posted by jan.pawlowski in category: Project Idea
Describe the initial ideas and vision for the project
The idea aims at better understanding whether OER are a possibility to improve refugees' situation in Europe. 
Which are the needs and requirements refugees express
How can we allow learning for refugees in chaotic situations?
How to create access, e.g. through mobile learning labs / access points
Which are the key topics which can improve integration and the life situation?
How to systematically use OER for integration and imrproving refugees' education?
How can we use refugees' knowledge (for supporting each other, learning from each other)?
 
 
An initial discussion at EDUCAMP Berlin brought up the following issues:
    

Context and barriers

*    Context and barriers
  • Learning is not a priority in refugees' situation
  • Learning is a must to be successfull
  • Many topics are needed to quickly start in a new society / environment
  • Information / communication needs to be started from the start
  • Languages and cultural knowledge is necessary
  • No time to learn, integration must start in days / weeks
  • Who can fund education
  • Refugees are in many cases just seen as people causing cost - not as valuable resources for all of us

    

Topics

*    Topics
  • Probably the key topic: ORIENTATION (on neighborhood, education and employment opportunities!
  • Further Orientation (country, administration,...)
  • Culture of the the countries
  • Language of the countries
  • Access to education / educational institution ("employability")
  • Information / media competences
    

Implementation opportunities

*    Implementation opportunities
  • Discuss with refugees / representatives
  •    Creating access points (information, m-learning access, mobile learning labs)
  • Creating initial resources
  • Starting dscourse between refugees and educational staekholders (asking for requirements)
  •  Collection of OER for quick benefits and start
    
    
 

  • actwww

    The Lisbon Convention (Council of Europe, 1997) states in section VII – Recognition of qualifications held by refugees, displaced persons and persons in a refugee-like situation, Article VII

  • actwww

    "Each Party shall take all feasible and reasonable steps within the framework of its education system and in conformity with its constitutional, legal, and regulatory provisions to develop procedures designed to assess fairly and expeditiously whether refugees, displaced persons and persons in a refugee-like situation fulfil the relevant requirements for access to higher education,

  • actwww

    ... to further higher education programmes or to employment activities, even in cases in which the qualifications obtained in one of the Parties cannot be proven through documentary evidence."

Scope planning

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    Funding possibilities

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    To be elaborated
     
    Germany: http://www.bamf.de/DE/Startseite/startseite-node.html
     
    NRW http://www.mais.nrw.de/000_Startseite/index.php (Integration)
     
     
     

      Planned activities and tasks

      Posted by jan.pawlowski in category: Project Idea
      Describe which activities and tasks could be undertaken by the project
      Initial interviews (at least 6 refugees, 3 volunteers, 3 administrative)
       
      Use Cases 
       
      Resource / material collections / righs clearance
       
      Initial prototype
       
      Process definition (for incorporating volunteers for example for translations and adding new topics)
       
      Extension plan (funded project)
       

        Initial requirements

        Posted by jan.pawlowski in category: Project Idea
        Requirements from initial interviews with groups
         

          Partners involved

          Posted by jan.pawlowski in category: Consortium building
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            Related networks

            Posted by jan.pawlowski in category: Consortium building
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            Here is a list of projects/initiatives on "Supporting refugees to access higher education"
            http://www.resettlement.eu/page/supporting-refugees-access-higher-education
            mainly from the UK
             
             

            Tasks and deadlines

            Posted by jan.pawlowski in category: Proposal drafting
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              Draft the proposal

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                Budget plan

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                  Harmonize proposal

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                    Submit proposal

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                    Submit the proposal and plan next steps