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Catalogue of Initiatives

M4M – Migrants for Migrants

Purpose
  • Language learning
  • Social inclusion
  • Employment
  • Support Personnel

Most human beings experience migration, whether as first, second, third or fourth generation of migrants. Currently, the world is facing higher number of forcibly displaced persons on the record, since the World War II. It is crucial to involve both migrants and host communities in the policy making to ensure an inclusive decision-making procedure.

In this sense, a learning course curriculum targeting Integration Services Professionals and Volunteers with a step-by-step process to systematically promote newly arrived migrants’ integration through the Buddy System is needed. The partnership of M4M project, provides an answer to migrants' needs towards a better inclusion in the host country, to make sure newly-arrived migrants do not feel alone and have a person who they can rely on to explain, guide, support and help them throughout the inclusion process. Therefore, the partnership of M4M project designed a course curriculum to improve the welcoming process and reinforce the exercise of rights of migrants: The Buddy System - Mentoring Training.

Training Modules

  • MODULE I - CONTEMPORARY INITIATIVES TO WELCOME MIGRANTS
  • MODULE II - BUDDY SYSTEM
  • MODULE III - BUDDY SYSTEM PROCESS
  • MODULE IV - HOW ORGANIZATIONS CAN MANAGE MENTORING PROCESS
  • MODULE V - MULTICULTURAL DIALOGUE – COMMUNICATION
  • MODULE VI - BE A MENTOR
  • MODULE VII - MIGRANTS EMPOWERMENT
Title M4M – Migrants for Migrants: Using the buddy system to foster integration of asylum seekers in the society
Date launched 01/09/2019
Status (Ongoing, forthcoming) Ongoing
Type of Resource
  • Digital resources
  • Online course
Purpose
  • Social Inclusion
  • Support personnel 
  • Language Learning
  • Employment
Online or Blended Online
Learning outcomes

The course curriculum including e-learning capsules available for Integration Services Professionals, educational staff, community mentors and volunteers:

  • Constitutes a help for newly-arrived migrants, especially unaccompanied minors, who need support and help in developing basic skills and competences. 
  • Improves the ability, the opportunity and the dignity of migrants. 
  • Promotes the inclusion of migrants in society with support from their host community.
Target group Integration Services Professionals and Volunteers who want to work with migrant population
Evaluation results/ monitoring plan Piloting course in all partners’ countries, assessment quizzes, evaluation questionnaires
Learning assessment Quiz / Self – assessment activity at the end of each module.
Recognition or certification of learning N/A
Europass Aligned with all basic Europass fields
Financing and sustainability model Erasmus + , organizational funds
Leading Organization AFEJI, France
Contact Person AFEJI team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
KMOP team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website https://www.migrants4migrants.eu/buddy-system-mentoring-training

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