SMILES – Supporting Migrants Integration Life Experience Skills

Many European programs already allowed exchanges of practices between organisations helping migrants. But all these projects focused on a classical approach to teaching and learning language, institutional knowledge, and job seeking….

Our approach is totally different.
It consists of the project stakeholders exchanging and developing animation and mediation practices, which allow adult migrants, and disadvantaged persons in general, to find in themselves (following a social constructivism process) methods, techniques and tools in aim to better live together with few means.
Therefore, it is not an approach tending just to insert migrants into society but also an approach aiming to develop exchanges and to allow everyone to do better by cooking, «doing it yourself », repairing, gardening, building, and using digital tools.

Our Results
The publication of an online handbook for teachers and trainers (English and local languages) includes the methods and activities shared during the project and the evaluation of their transfer by other partners. The handbook aims at supplying a global pedagogical consideration and practical suggested activities.

Partnership