INTERREG Gastronomic Exchange Days
As part of the INTERREG program, we participated in a cultural and gastronomic exchange in collaboration with AIFED from Granada. INTERREG programs are financed by the European Regional Development Fund (Regional Fund). The first part of the exchange took place in Vilamoura, Portugal on the 7th march, where Andalusian specialities were presented to local restaurant owners and suppliers: For the second event, we travelled to Granada, Spain a week after to deliver a taste of Algarvian specialities: Both events have been a great success and we hope to be able to participate in similar programs more often in the near future!
Project Re-Start – Guidebook for Migrant Entrepreneurs
Brussels, Belgium (31/03/2023) – The Re-Start Project partners are proud to offer The Re-Start Guidebook for Migrant Entrepreneurs, available online on 31 March 2023. The Re-Start Guidebook is a short book full of refugee start-up resources to facilitate entrepreneurship and business development for refugees and migrants. In recent years, millions of refugees have come to Europe, many of whom have the skills, enthusiasm, and perseverance to be excellent entrepreneurs. When it comes to starting a company, however, refugees encounter unique challenges. The Re-Start project is an Erasmus+ co-funded project, brought to you by the partnership of four organisations: Welcome Home International (Belgium), Tropical Astral (Portugal), Indepcie (Spain) and Learning for Integration (Finland). Together the consortium has created four step-by-step guides with migrant-specific advice, localised resources and administrative obligations in all partner countries. Each country-specific guide is available in English and each country’s language (Dutch, French, Finnish, Portuguese and Spanish). The Re-Start Guidebook for Migrant Entrepreneurs takes you through ten chapters with everything you need to know to get started, from coming up with an idea and writing a business plan to learn about different business models and administrative steps. There is even a chapter on education, training and financing. Re-Start is explicitly designed for refugees and migrants. It is written at the A2-B1 language level, and each chapter contains vocabulary lists of technical terms and difficult words. The guidebook contains hyperlinks to resources in every partner country, including relevant authorities and helpful organisations. The Re-Start Guidebook for Migrant Entrepreneurs can be used online or in person, and is suitable for individual use or classroom context. The vocabulary lists and action steps throughout the book make it especially useful to equip teachers working with migrant language learners. Download the book in PDF (for Portugal) or view the flipbooks for each country on the project website and find out more on Facebook! Re-Start (Project No: 2021-1-BE01-KA210-ADU-000034932) is an Erasmus+-funded project.
Project Nutcracker Update – April 2023
The Erasmus+ project ‘NUTCRACKER – Learning by doing and helping’ is all about engaging the disengaged and connecting the disconnected due to the covid pandemic. With inclusion being a key element of the project, the aim is to build an inter-modal methodology that links small manual works and digital skills in order to promote the acquisition of skills that are relevant for the target group in the job market. Direct target groups that will be included in the project implementation are Trainers and teachers in adult education programs and adult learners at risk of social exclusion. At least 50% of the participants in the pilots will be women. Possible indirect target groups with interest in exploiting the NUTCRACKER project outputs and outcomes are VET teachers, trainers, companies with a focus on social work and adult education, researchers, youth workers, NGOs, students and people with migrant backgrounds etc. The main outputs of the NUTCRACKER project will be[1] the creation of training materials on best practices of every partner country with various topics under the methodologies of learning by helping and learning by doing in all partner languages,[2] an e-learning platform that will host the online course and training materials developed and[3] the organisation of ‘Training for trainers’ events in each partner country. These trainers will then support the final piloting events/activities for the end users to validate the training materials produced. By now, all partner organisations have executed research on best practises that can be found in their countries and provided guidelines and resources to inform about them.This material will be made available on the projects’ platform once it has been built. This E+ project with organisations involved from France, Portugal, Spain and Italy has started off in November 2022 and is expected to finish in March 2025. Want more info? Check the projects’ Facebook page for frequent updates and news around the topics of inclusion and diversity in education.