Miasto Stoleczne Warszawa

Program: European Refugee Fund
Project: Creative Integration
Cooperative unit: Culture Practice Association (NGO)

The main purpose of the project is to initiate and support integration of young refugees within the environment and to prevent them from  social and cultural exclusion.
Project’s aim  is to establish periodical counter-discrimination workshops for students of four Warsaw schools  which foreigners’ children attend. Creativity workshops  as additional classes for pupils are directed to mixed groups of Polish and foreign children.
The program of workshops combines artistic, film, theatrical and multimedia classes.
Another target group are teachers working in schools covered by the project.
An multi-cultural education trainings for teachers are also established.

Project duration: January 2010 to December 2011



Program: European Refugee Fund
Project: Warsaw Education for You!
Cooperative unit:  Polish Migration Forum (NGO)

The purpose of the project is to compensate the lack of primary and lower-secondary education of foreign children who are covered with the international protection.
Throughout the project a couple of  actions gathering the experience about Polish and foreign methods of compensating the educational differences are taken. Another matter is establishing the system of education for protected foreign youth in Poland. The final result of the project is ‘educational pack’ that includes teaching materials and educational instructions for foreign students’ teachers.

The  key actions are:

• analyze of Polish and international experiences in range of primary and lower secondary education;

• an expert ‘round table’ debate concerning foreigners’ primary and lower secondary education issues;

• establishing an ‘educational pack’ for teachers, including methodology of foreigners’ education;

• adapting a particular school for foreigners’ education;

• adapting foreign youth to start the education – courses for job identity in a new cultural environment;

• establishing the trial tuitions for foreigners in range of primary and lower-secondary education.

Project duration: January 2010 to December 2011



Program:  Lifelong Learning Program
Component: Comenius Regio
Project: CAERDYDD-WARSAW Integration Project. Bridging the Education and Social Gap for Young People and their Parents
Cooperative unit: Arteria Foundation, (NGO)

Foreign partner: Cardiff (Wales) local education authorities
Local partners: Two Warsaw primary and lower secondary schools, Arteria Foundation.
Target: Foreign pupils, parents, teachers, pedagogic students

The main goals of the project are:

• adapting school workers (teachers, administration staff) to work with foreign children and perfecting the references of working with foreigners;

• establishing assistance program for particular groups of foreigners, cooperation with parents and establishing the  Parental Support Group

• establishing documents useful in teaching on various levels ( including  educational pack for teachers and  ‘Welcome Pack’ to make the integration easier  for foreign students and their parents).

• Supporting young teachers and students of pedagogy in work through evolving educational environment.

Project duration: November 2009 – August 2010



Program: European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals
Project: Multicultural school in multicultural city
Cooperative unit: International Organization for Migration (NGO)

The purpose of the project is  to perfect the teachers’ references in work with multicultural environment and to support the integration of foreign students in Polish schools.
Project is co-financed in a range of  The European Fund for the Integration of Third-country nationals.
About 20 Warsaw teachers working in multicultural environment took part in the training courses realized throughout the project.

Study in Warsaw  is a program popularizing City Of Warsaw as a modern academic centre for foreigners. Program is realized throughout the agreement between local authority, Confederation of  Warsaw Universities’ Rectors and “Perspektywy” Foundation. Studying in Warsaw is advertised by the guide published in English, Ukrainian and Chinese. Warsaw universities were advertised on education Expos in Kiev on April 2008 and November 2009, Astana 2009 and Shanghai 2009.
    
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