On 29th April, the partners of InterCult held the Final Conference of the project online.
On this occasion, local stakeholders working with Migrants and French policy-makers had the opportunity to exchange about one important topic related to the integration of Migrants in the host community: the support of their socio-professional integration by social actors. This project highlighted the need for an intercultural approach in this process.

As a result of the InterCult project, the partners produced a kit dedicated to social actors, language trainers, and to all entities working aiming at facilitating this process. Understanding the issues related to improving and valuing the skills of trainers that are directly working with Migrants and Refugees is essential to reflect together on the systems, tools, and values to be developed in France and in Europe.

Special thanks to:
Flavien Marcon (SGAE), Corinne Lechevin (DDETS), Nathalie Vigier Eloire (DDETS), Yves Brunner (OFII), Frédérique Pharaboz (DIAIR), Mohsen Pakatchian (ABC Formation) and Inès Mesmar (La Fabrique Nomade) and all the InterCult partners.

Find the integral InterCult conference online on the project’s facebook page: intercult project europe – https://www.facebook.com/InterCultProjectEurope

A train the trainer workshop (face to face) of the INTERCULT project, managed by Fernando Benavente (manager of IFESCOOP), took place last 2nd of February 2021 in the premises of the Municipality of Quart de Poblet (Valencia, Spain).

Bartolome Nofuentes, Vicemayor of the Municipality, presented the workshop to the 14 trainers who participated in the event.

All restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic were complied with during the piloting event, in terms of distance and security measures.

On 28-29 January 2021, GSVO59 organised the Train the Trainer event with local partners that work on migrant integration in France. Unfortunately, due to the current situation imposed on us by the Covid-19 pandemic, the event had to be carried out online. However, this did not prevent participants from having enriching and fruitful discussions. During this 16-hours-training, participants were presented to the Intercultural Trainer Kit for Migrant Educators, through the theory, the activities and the interactive space in the website. The training sessions were divided in moments of theory and activities, ensuring a participatory environment. Based on the feedback provided by the professionals, the Kit will be adapted to the French local context.

Partners discussed the content and design of the main project output – INTERCULTURAL TRAINER’S KIT. Best practices of teaching techniques were presents, as well as summary of results from the need analysis of migrant groups.

The transnational partner meeting of the INTERCULT project was inaugurated by the Vice Mayor and Councillor of the European Projects and Mobility areas of the Municipality of Quart de Poblet, Mr.Bartolomé Nofuentes, who is currently collaborating with the European Commission and the European Parliament in the design of the new Horizon Europe Strategic Plan, a document that will replace the previous Horizon 2020, participating in different meetings and work forums.

There was a big celebration in Valencia, Spain as part of the program of activities due to the International day of cultural diversity on 21st of May 2019.

The main event took place in the “Plaza de la Virgen”, with the performances of 20 migrant organisations.

We had the chance to use the stand of the Intercultural Platform of Spain to disseminate our project.

The InterCult partners held their second meeting on 16-17 April 2019 in Prague, the Czech Republic. During the meeting they presented the collected good practices and discussed successful methods and approaches for work in a multicultural environment from each country. The partners also presented the results from the surveys performed among migrant groups from Somalia, Romania, Syria, Russia, Iraq, Morocco, Sub-Saharian countries, Latin America, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Vietnam. The aim of the surveys was to identify specific needs of migrants from different regions and use their input in the development of the Intercultural Trainers Kit.

The next partner meeting will take place in Valencia, Spain on 30 Sept-1 Oct 2019.

The kick-off project meeting was held on 8-9 November 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria and used for discussing and planning the project activities and the involvement of relevant stakeholders and target groups representatives. The partners agreed on the approach towards collecting good practices which provide successful models for work in a multicultural environment as well as selected 12 migrant communities which to be involved in a survey for identifying the learning needs and specifics of different migrant groups.