Mufocom Project

20/09/2023

In the past weeks, Mufocom partners have conducted Multiplier events entitled "Valuing migrants' talents" to disseminate the project results and increase visibility. The aim of the event is to promote the project to targeted stakeholders, to bring together experts, professionals and trainers to better promote the project and ensure their participation in the sustainability of the project. The target audience included NGOs, Representatives of Municipalities, Representatives of companies, Employment agencies, Educational Institutions, Immigration services and Social Partners.

Here are some photos of the Multiplier events in 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗴 (𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲), in 𝗕𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗼 (𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆) where on the occasion of World Refugee Day, a meeting and a moment of celebration were organized in which the beneficiaries and operators of the SAI (reception and integration system) "Casa Futura" of Cerignola and of the SAI "Stornara Solidale" took part ", citizens but also local organizations that deal with migrants and in 𝗟𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗮 (𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗹) where the session was attended by Councillor Ana Margarida Valentim (representing the Municipality of Leiria), Henrique Carvalho (from NERLEI - Associação Empresarial da Região de Leiria), Ana Margarida Horta (from GIP Imigrante da InPulsar - Associação para o Desenvolvimento Comunitário ), Ana Neto (from SPEAK) and Tânia Fernandes (from CLAIM Leiria), who gave voice to a series of reflections on migrants' practices, experiences and difficulties.
Aproximar Associazione di volontariato onlus "San Giuseppe" European Center for Human Rights

30/08/2023

Mentors: guidance and support

The vulnerable nature of migrants, particularly refugees, means that complementary approaches must be taken into account in their integration into society and, subsequently, the labour market to enable them to live with dignity and fulfil their potential in Europe.
In the European project Mufocom, the methodology of guidance and support through mentors fills the gap left by conventional educational approaches. The human relationship of trust between mentors and mentees leads to improved mental health, hope and self-confidence among migrants and refugees while also offering assistance in the rapid assimilation of technical and professional skills necessary for their future.

Learn more: www.mufocom.eu

28/08/2023

Mufocom: A project for social integration that is almost completed

🟨The completion of the Mufocom European project is approaching. 7 partners from 5 countries (Italy, France, Greece, Portugal, and Luxembourg worked for the effective social integration of migrants and refugees in European societies.

🟨A crucial aspect of Mufocom was the improvement of the skills of trainers and professionals working with migrants and refugees, giving them the necessary tools to educate migrant adults across Europe. Thus, scientific experience and cross-cultural empathy were multiplied, with beneficial results for our most vulnerable fellow human beings.

🟢The Mufocom project aims to smoothly and efficiently integrate migrants and refugees into European society and economy.

🟢Among other methods, this is done by promoting e-learning tools, including those previously developed in other Erasmus+ projects. In addition, highlighting particular examples through storytelling and recording successful case studies is used as a learning tool to encourage and motivate migrants and refugees to discover their skills and competencies.

For more information: www.mufocom.eu

02/08/2023

The Mufocom Project, which started in 2021, will end next August. After the last meeting of the partners in Amadora in Portugal last May, the latest contents and outputs foreseen by the project are now being defined.
Specifically, the partners are finalizing the implementation of the mentoring process with the migrants, each in their own country. They are working to collect, through interviews with the migrants involved in the project, successful stories and experiences.
An example is the testimonies of Nasir, Ali and Haider, who arrived in Italy years ago and were the protagonists of two stories of positive migration. Their migratory journey and integration saw the birth of two commercial activities in Italy (a jewellery shop and a kebab shop), transforming them from migrants to entrepreneurs. Two stories, therefore, can be taken as a model and inspiration by other migrants and which, together with the stories of all the project partners, will become a final booklet.

Stay tuned for all project updates: https://www.mufocom.eu/

20/06/2023

The United Nations General Assembly has chosen to celebrate World Refugee Day on 20 June each year. This was decided on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.
is an opportunity to remember how we can all lend a hand to those forced to flee war and persecution to create a world where all refugees are included. It takes very little to make a difference in the lives of asylum seekers, migrants and refugees; we can.
With Mufocom project, we aim to help adult refugees and migrants in their social inclusion by promoting tools and approaches for developing language skills through the mentoring process.

To learn more, visit the website: www.mufocom.eu

12/06/2023

The end of the Mufocom project is approaching. On 25 and 26 May, the partners met in Amadora, Portugal, for the last transnational project meeting to define the next project phases and activities and discuss the content of the outputs.

The project on which partners from Italy (Associazione di volontariato onlus "San Giuseppe"), Luxembourg (Office House Capellen and Social Impact Development Centre-ASBL), Portugal (Aproximar and Amadora Inova), France (European Center for Human Rights and Greece (Athens Lifelong Learning Institute) are working has among its objectives.-Diversify and innovate through the construction of innovative training modules adapted to the needs of migrants, contributing to the improvement of their linguistic, scientific and digital, intercultural and environmental, social and civic, and socio-professional skills, to improve their personal development, their active participation in society and their employability in the European labour market;
-Preserving generational competencies through non-formal education, which is essential for adult learners because their learning outside the classroom must be complementary to what they have learned in the formal context;
-Encourage learners through the promotion of existing e-learning tools and storytelling to encourage and motivate migrants to discover their own potential and capabilities.
-Improving the skills of educators and practitioners working with migrants by providing them with the necessary tools for adult migrant education across Europe.
Visit the website for more information on the project: https://www.mufocom.eu/

02/06/2023

“Curing the Limbo” is a program implemented by the City of Athens, the Development and Destination Management Agency (ADDMA), the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) that aims at implementing a dynamic and innovative model for the integration of refugees in Greece. The program achieves the aforementioned goal by providing refugees with language courses and ICT, access to affordable housing, and professional counselling services tailored to their needs. As a result, refugees are being integrated into the city's life by interacting with active citizen groups and participating in public events held in the neighbourhoods of Athens. In coming together, the refugees and the city exit their “limbo” state, boosting activity, cooperation, and co-existence.

Explore more on their official website:
https://curingthelimbo.gr/en/home

22/05/2023

Language learning activities by the Athens Lifelong Learning Institute
The Athens Lifelong Learning Institute has implemented a variety of non-formal language learning activities for migrants/refugees. The ALLI team regularly works with a group of refugee women from Ukraine, aiming at social integration and inclusion. The activities were based on a more practical approach in order to give participants a chance to cooperate, express themselves and learn while having fun. Lessons were a chance not only to develop language skills but also to develop social skills and bonding.

15/05/2023

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀

The second result of the Mufocom project is an analysis of the linguistic needs of migrants and the barriers hindering the mastery of the target language from constructing a linguistic training module through innovative language teaching/learning methods.

The partnership has worked in the past months and prepared the guidelines to advise educators/trainers and/or training providers on implementing non-formal learning activities in the language provision to migrants/refugees. The objective is to provide guidance and ideas on how and what they can implement with individuals or groups of migrants/refugees regarding non-formal learning language activities.

Download the guidelines from the website: https://www.mufocom.eu/

Develop innovative approaches and tools for adults learning; built on the basis of political and social realities of each partner country

20/04/2023

Integration of migrants into the political system of Luxembourg
Lusophone communities from third countries, such as Cape Verde, Brazil, Angola, and Mozambique, will have info in their languages (Portuguese and Creole). In addition to these communities, Arabic sessions will be held about the elections in 2023. With the aim of greater integration of these communities within the heart of economic and political life in Luxembourg, the sessions aim at their greater effective participation.
The linguistic system in Luxembourg is complex: Luxembourgish is the national language; French, German and Luxembourgish are administrative languages; English is accepted as a communication language, and French is used in drafting laws, employment contracts, leases, provision of services, for official information. Luxembourgish is also used in most parliamentary debates.
Luxembourg is one of the European countries that concentrate several foreign residents in proportion to national residents. At the moment, the capital registers 186 different nationalities. In the city of Luxembourg, 120,090 inhabitants, 39,302 from Luxembourg and 80,788 foreigners, and the government calls for the participation of resident foreigners in the next municipal elections, for social cohesion, and to favour the integration and participation of all in the political and social life of the country. For this reason, access to information is provided in several languages to facilitate integration.
OHC – Office House Capellen is one important player in disseminating the elections rights for migrants in Luxembourg www.officehousecapellen.com

03/04/2023

𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀

Adult learning principles should be utilised to effectively transmit information within an organisation through a dedicated training program or a more general organisational learning effort.
Adults learn differently than children, and organisations implementing these principles will reap the benefits of a well-informed workforce.
Alongside these principles, various adult learning theories can help organisations improve their training programs. This article was written based on those theories and will help you understand how to use them in your organisation’s training programs.

To learn more, read here:
https://www.valamis.com/hub/adult-learning-principles

Actionable tips will help you implement adult learning principles to boost your organization’s training. Get the full benefits of a well-trained workforce.

03/04/2023

To FARANA and MARIANA goes all our love and memories of formative moments, trips, dinners and laughter. We walk together, and we grow together. 🤍

27/03/2023

Luxembourg partners Social Impact Development Centre-ASBL and Office House Capellen has completed the pilot "Formal and non-formal education: multiple approaches for fostering the linguistics skills in adult migrants" in collaboration with Kopplabundz Asbl. The pilot involved twelve women from Syria, Morocco, Nigeria, Somalia and Iran with A1 and A2 levels of French. The women's profile was: unemployed, aesthetician, sewer, and elderly assistant. The pilot lasted from January to February 2023 with 2 supervised online sessions and three traditional learning methods and the aim was to improve the participants' speaking ability, both in writing and speaking.
What emerged from the pilot was the importance of using hybrid teaching methods for adult language learning to contribute to the learners' autonomy and flexibility in content delivery. It is crucial to adapt content to the profile of the participants we meet in the classes, working more on their interests.

09/02/2023

Did you arrive in Portugal recently and you don't speak Portuguese? Or would you like to improve your Portuguese language– listening, speaking and writing?
You can do it – for free and in a personalized way – on the digital platform Plataforma de Português Online!

The Online Portuguese Platform is a formal resource promoted by Alto Comissariado para as Migrações (ACM) – the public institute acting in public politics about migrations in Portugal.

This platform is a set of tools allowing the trainees to practice the language. After registration and a needs assessment, the learner receives the result indicating the module where they should start the language learning process.
The course is very dynamic, with pictures and cultural expressions in line with the main objective of language learning: to acquire competencies to speak and understand the language; while developing other more general skills connected with the socio-cultural knowledge of the context of the language and the promotion of an intercultural awareness amongst the learners.

"The more you hear about, read and write Portuguese, the faster you learn to use the Portuguese. There's no problem making mistakes or taking longer to say something. The important thing is to want to communicate and learn to do it better and better" (A message from the platform).

Website: Plataforma de Português Online https://pptonline.acm.gov.pt/

30/01/2023

The Mufocom partners met in Portugal from the 23rd to the 27th of January 2023 for the second Short-term joint staff training to work on 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀. Professionals from Italy, France, Luxembourg, Portugal and Greece discussed the basic terms and framework of mentoring, the idea of mentoring as a social integration strategy, the different roles in mentoring and the meaning of being a mentor. The participants also carried out practical group activities to reinforce skills and competencies, understand the strategies and tools for mentoring, and plan a mentoring process. The main aim of the training was to render professionals more prepared to perform their activities with migrants.
Thank you, Amadora Inova and Aproximar, for hosting the training and thank you to European Center for Human Rights, Associazione di volontariato onlus "San Giuseppe", Office House Capellen, Athens Lifelong Learning Institute, Social Impact Development Centre-ASBL for participating.

16/01/2023

The partner ECHR from France, together with the project partners, is developing the Guidelines for educators/trainers and/or training providers on how to implement non-formal learning activities in the language provision to migrants/refugees. In these guidelines for educators and trainers who teach the host country language to migrants/refugees, it provides an overview of migrants' motivation to learn the language, their characteristics as learners and
contextualises non-formal education. In addition, it is a small handbook with non-ormal
activities for language teaching. All activities have a guidebook that will enable their implementation in a way that is effective and easy for everyone.
Stay tuned! Available soon online in print format.

14/01/2023

Friday 13 January 2023 is first meeting of Mufocom Project for 2023 and we are discussing about our project Objectives: 1. Diversify and innovate, 2. Preserve generational skills, 3. Empower learners , 4. Upskilling migrants’ educators and our Outputs - 1. Transnational analysis of integration policies, 2. Formal and non-formal education, 3. Which jobs for migrants?, 4. Mentoring, 5. 5. Storytelling. If you need more info about Mufocom ProjectMufocom Project you can contacts us European Center for Human Rights

06/01/2023

The International Film Festival on Migration will take place in Lisbon, at Cinema São Jorge, on the 6th January. 7th edition.
The International Migration Film Festival presents films and documentaries that capture the promise and challenges of migration and the unique contributions that migrant people bring to their new communities. The aim of the festival is to pave the way for greater discussion around one of the greatest phenomena of our time. We are very happy to announce the film of the 7th edition of the International Film Festival on Migration: Flee, by Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Told mainly through animation, Amin talks about his past for the first time as a child refugee from Afghanistan and his journey. He looks back at his past and addresses his struggle with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, which
threatens to make the life he has built for himself and his future husband impossible.
Admission is free, however we ask that people register via this link. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bilhetes-festival-internacional-de-cinema-sobre-a-migracao-486818576467