Ways to adapt to a new
environment
Violeta
Mirinaviciute
Still Active- – A Communication
Tool for Fighting Social Isolation
Project aims
to provide senior citizens from vulnerable
groups, in particular from disadvantaged or
rural areas, with a communication tool- English
Language, that will encourage and stimulate
them to continue being a part of a busy and
changing world, thus breaking personal, cultural
and social barriers and thereby improving the
quality of life
www.still-active.eu
Project partners
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Soros International House, LT – coordinator
International House Tallinn, EE
HT-METKA OY ( Ltd), FI
Folk University in Uppsala, SE
Adult Education Center of Kuldiga region, LV
Objectives
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Stimulate the mental abilities
Encourage personal development
Motivate to start learning again
Improve and develop ICT skills
Improve English language skills
Raise cultural awareness of Baltic and Nordic countries
Provide with a possibility for international interaction
Inspire active participation in social life
Stimulate the growth of self confidence
Steps
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Contacting potential social partners-associations of
senior people, third generation universities and etc.
Designing web based platform for virtual tours
Designing and prepared the program-interactive
units/modules for intercultural learning and
development of EL skills
Implementing the program
Program
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Selecting the sample topics for modules:
creating personal profile
presenting your city, village or region
sharing experiences and hobbies
suggesting most popular national cuisine
presenting famous people in each country
presenting folk arts of their countries
searching for common things related to history or
culture
Implementing the program
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Face to face lessons for elderly learners with EL
teachers
Working with interactive units:
creating short stories, taking pictures, making audio
records on a given topic and downloading them on the
platform
sending feedback on the materials reported on the
platform from other countries
evaluating and self-evaluating the achieved results in
formal and informal ways
Organizing a face to face workshop-improvised module
lesson and a folk art and national cuisine exhibition in
Latvia
Adaptation to a new
environment
When you go to a new place, such as a new country or
even a new city, you often enter a culture that is
different from the one you left. The differences between
cultures can make it very difficult to adjust to the new
surrounding
How can you begin to feel comfortable in your new
surroundings?
Learning the Language
LLP GRUNDTVIG Multilateral networks
INTEGRA
Migrants' Integrating Kit - Basic
Language for Dealing with Financial
Matters
www.integra-project.eu
Project aims
To work together with social partners such as migrant
communities and financial institutes to create a Europe
wide network of relevant institutes in order to reach
migrants in partner countries to improve their
integration into local society by providing them with
opportunities to gain language skills on basic financial
matters.
Partners
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SOROS INTERNATIONAL HOUSE – LT (coordinator)
DIAN - Training and Management Activities – GR
Dialoge language institute – DE
Instituto de Formacion y Studios Sociales IFES - ES
Universität Bremen – DE
HASRETİ SÜLEYMAN EGİTİM VAKFI – TR
Smashing Times Theatre Company – IE
Pressure Line V.O.F. – NL
EuroEd Foundation – RO
DHE Solutions Ltd. – GB
AKADEMIA HUMANISTYCZNO-EKONOMICZNA W LODZI PL
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE – BY (third country partner)
Target groups
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Migrants to old EU member states
– migrants from new EU member states - new migrant
communities with new traditions
– migrants from outside the EU - old communities of
migrants with old traditions from third countries
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Migrants to new EU member states
– migrants from third countries
– people from new EU member states migrating to EU
countries
The specific objectives
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analyse migrants needs in terms of basic local language
knowledge in relation to financial matters, financial
terminology, basic financial documentation as well as
specifics of financial systems in partner countries in order
to fulfil everyday needs
compare good practice used for introducing basic local
language on financial matters and basic country specific
financial operations in old EU member states as well as in
new EU member states
collect materials for the development of an essential Kit
for migrants
organise and implement trainings together with language
professionals and financial experts to representatives of
migrant communities in order to cascade that training to
ultimate beneficiaries-migrants of the partner countries
collect materials to create and develop an active web
portal with the support and direct involvement of social
partners
The general objectives are to
enhance
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the basic language skills of migrants living in partner
countries, specifically relating to financial matters
migrants’ potential for mobility within the EU labour
market
intercultural learning and empathy in migrant
communities for international communication in
different countries
self-confidence among migrants
ability to break personal and cultural frontiers
Main outputs
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Created European network of fitted trainers from
migrant communities able to continue delivering the
skills to final beneficiaries
Developed Useful Kit of financial terminology, financial
glossary and a guide with main information on financial
institutes or financial information sources
Created constantly updated long-time after project is
over active webportal integrating all the useful financial
information, on-line trainings, contact information and
networks data
The project will impact on
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migrant communities members, which will be using the
Kit developed during the project and the web portal for
their everyday needs and will be trained by the
trainers-representatives from migrant communities,
equipped with the methodology to educate wider range
of migrants
migrants, who do not belong to migrant communities
involved in the project, will be able to use the web
portal and Kit for their self-learning of basic language
on financial matters
general public, who will use the Kit and web portal
materials as an in-formal way of learning
educational institutes, would use project materials as a
non-formal way of teaching