Successful end of the Grundtvig-learning partnership in Sheffield

Social & Community Media for inclusion and more chances of employability on the job market: Those were the aims of the GRUNDTVIG-project, which is a learning partnership initiated by the Bennohaus Münster in autumn 2013. Together with partners from Finland, Denmark, Turkey, Greece and Great Britain the supporting organisation of the Bennohaus, the Arbeitskreis Ostviertel e.V., worked out a new curriculum of media work which makes it easier for migrants to participate and to reinforce their integration and employability chances. In May, after nearly two years, the project “Social & Community Media for Inclusion & Employability” was successfully finished in Sheffield in England.

During the project, there have been several meetings in the participating countries. The first and very efficient planning meeting was in December 2013. Afterwards, as well as in the Greek town Thessaloniki in May 2014 and as in Istanbul in November 2014, also the last meeting in Great Britain was used to develop the curriculum and construct new products.

After the first methods of adult education were compiled and methods of video production were tested in Thessaloniki in May, also in Sheffield media products and methods were created and tested. Also, the radio programme AUDACITY and its applicability were initially examined by a testing group in Istanbul and afterwards the results were captured by the development of an e-book along with an instruction in Sheffield.

Furthermore, in line with the subjects “inclusion” and “employability” the 25 participants produced photo galleries, radio and video reports as well as a web blog in the internet. For example, one group worked on the subject “inclusion in Sheffield” and produced a touching short report about the situation of asylum seekers without work permission in Sheffield. During this meeting, the testing group spend time with the production of their own web blogs and the possibilities of producing own broadcastings.

All these measures will be summarized in a large curriculum which will be spread and passed on in the countries as free teaching and learning method material afterwards. In the meantime, there also will be some training courses in the different countries.

“The project is definitely not over yet,” project leader Arndt Selders told, “but we are very glad that the last months and years have been that successful”.

The project was supported by the EU-programme “Lebenslanges Lernen” (“Lifelong Learning”) and the National Agency at the German federal institute of vocational training. For further information, please contact +49 251 609673 or www.media4inclusion.wordpress.com.

Daniela Elsner

 

 

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