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Press Release #1
Monday, 20 May 2019
Type: Press Release
Project: DICE
Press Release #1
Kick-off meeting, Learning Activity, Training Manual, Awareness Campaign
DICE is a KA2 Erasmus+ project (2018-1-FR01-KA202-048228) coordinated by Eurocircle (France) and involving 5 European partners among whom MMC from Cyprus. In this 24-month project (1 Jan 2018 - 30 Sep 2020), the partners aim to create open and free training for professionals who work with first-time attendees on the key concepts of the DICE approach to facilitate and improve the integration and support of their audience.
At this phase, partners have already completed their particularly fruitful kick-off meeting which took place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 12th November 2018. During the meeting all the parameters of the cooperation within the consortium were agreed and elaborated. Next steps were also decided and common guidelines were established.
Specifically, partners agreed on the content of the training manual for professionals working with newcomers. The content comprises the following topics: 1. Culture and identity 2. Fighting discrimination 3. Empowerment of newcomers 4. approaches to be effective with newcomers. The manual and its of the topics will include both a theoretical part and a practical one (exercises, activities etc. for professionals to perform them with newcomers). The first draft of the manual is already completed.
Adjacently to the kick off meeting, a Learning Activity took place in Utrecht from 13 to 16 November 2018 during which the partner representatives along with the Third-Country Nationals who took part in the kick-off meeting shared experiences and were familiarised with suggested exercises and elaboration which will take place the pilot testing events where the training manuals will be tested (please see below).
In the following stage, the manual will be tested with professionals who work with newcomers in each of the partners countries. Especially for Cyprus, invitations to major institutions and entities working with newcomers will be sent soon. Of course, interested professionals can also express their interested to take part in the pilot testing event by contacting MMC.
In parallel, the awareness campaign is already under construction. During the learning activity, the participating Third-Country Nationals (newcomers) gave interviews on-camer which will be used to create 6 short documentary-type videos to be disseminated through the partnership’s communication channels. At this moment subtitles are being added in each of the partner languages.
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