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FUNDING PROGRAMME
Erasmus+
PROJECT NUMBER
2024-1-S101-KA220-ADU-000255227
DURATION
02/09/2024 - 28/02/2027
COORDINATING ORGANISATION
SLOVENSKA FILANTROPIJA-ZDRUŽENJE ZA PROMOCIJO PROSTOVOLJSTVA
PARTNER COUNTRIES
Coordinator: Slovenia
Partners: Italy, France, Hungary, Czechia
WEBSITE
www.capulysse.fr/en/laboratoire-innovation/projets/intercult
CONTACT PERSON
Helena Liberšar
helena.libersar@filantropija.org
PROJECT DESCRIPTION & BACKGROUND
The iNTERCULT project responds to the growing need for effective migrant inclusion across Europe by enhancing the role and recognition of intercultural mediators. These professionals play a key role in facilitating communication between people with a migrant background and host communities, supporting access to services, promoting intercultural dialogue, and overcoming cultural and administrative barriers. Despite their important contribution, intercultural mediators often face limited recognition and unequal professional status across EU countries.
To address these challenges, iNTERCULT brings together 5 European partners to identify effective practices in intercultural mediation, assess the needs of mediators, and develop specialised training programmes to strengthen their skills and competences. The project will also produce practical guidelines to support the implementation of intercultural mediation in different contexts.
TARGET GROUPS
iNTERCULT addresses:
- Intercultural mediators or people working in similar positions.
- Structures that are active in the initial reception of refugees and the design and offer of educational and counselling services.
- Public institutions (health clinics, social welfare centres, schools, etc.)
- Experts and researchers in the field of intercultural mediation and/or adult education.
- People with a migration background, in the process of integration.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
1. Allow a better understanding of intercultural mediation and its importance for migrant's inclusion.
2. Reinforce the competences of intercultural mediators to ensure better and more effective integration of migrants.
PROJECT RESULTS
1. A compendium of best practices in intercultural mediation, as well as a compilation of the needs of intercultural mediators.
2. A training program for intercultural mediators:
Module 1: The role of an intercultural mediator (IM) and their fields of action
Module 2: Stress management and burnout prevention
Module 3: Mediation skills: Interpersonal communication and techniques of mediation
Module 4: Migration patterns – basic concepts relating to migration and refugees – migration and the adaptation cycle – national immigration system
Module 5: Intercultural skills
3. A guideline addressed to Intercultural Mediators and Institutional staff dealing with migrants in order to facilitate intercultural mediation in the process of migrant inclusion.