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    The BRIDGE-IT project aims to develop blended training courses and materials in multiple languages to facilitate interactions between immigrants and service providers within institutional systems by providing intercultural communication skills. Led by Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy, the project involves partners from 8 countries and seeks to improve attitudes towards integration through improved communication.

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    The BRIDGE-IT project aims to develop blended training courses and materials in multiple languages to facilitate interactions between immigrants and service providers within institutional systems by providing intercultural communication skills. Led by Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy, the project involves partners from 8 countries and seeks to improve attitudes towards integration through improved communication.

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    The BRIDGE-IT project aims to develop blended training courses and materials in multiple languages to facilitate interactions between immigrants and service providers within institutional systems by providing intercultural communication skills. Led by Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy, the project involves partners from 8 countries and seeks to improve attitudes towards integration through improved communication.

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    BRIDGE-IT PARTNERS

    IT

    http://www.unipg.it

    AT
    the
    usiness club
    austrialia
    http://www.club-austrialia.info

    BE
    E R A S M U S
    HOGESCHOOL http://www.erasmushogeschool.be
    B R U S S E L

    DE

    bb
    Forschungsinstitut
    Betriebliche Bildung
    http://www.f-bb.de

    IT
    KEY&KEY http://www.keyandkey.it
    THE PROJECT
    C O M M U N I C A T I O N S
    Associazione senza scopo di lucro

    MT

    http://www.um.edu.mt
    BRIDGE-IT
    Be Relevant to Intercultural Diversity
    NL Generation in Europe - Integration Team
    HOGESCHOOL ZUYD

    http://www.hszuyd.nl

    PL

    http://www.est.edu.pl 510101-LLP-1-2010-1-IT-GRUNDTVIG-GMP

    TR

    http://www.yozgatmeb.gov.tr

    http://bridge-it.communicationproject.eu

    This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
    This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be
    held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
    Be Relevant to Intercultural Diversity
    Generation in Europe Integration Team
    510101-LLP-1-2010-1-IT-GRUNDTVIG-GMP

    SUMMARY WHY DO WE WANT TO UNDERTAKE THIS PROJECT?


    Intercultural communication (ICC) skills are fundamental for the The latest news and data on immigration show on one side the
    integration process of an immigrant/foreigner as an 'adult-in- constant increase of both regular and irregular mobility from
    mobility' in a host country. As the 6th "Common Basic Principle" outside and within the EU, on the other, a sharp growth of racism
    declares, "Access for immigrants to institutions (...) is a critical episodes. According to Eurostat, the foreigner population in
    foundation for better integration". The main objective of this Europe in 2008 was about 31 million people, 1/3 of which (about
    project is to offer concrete tools in several languages (English, 10 million) coming from other EU countries, and the remaining 2/3
    French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Arabic) to (about 20 million) coming from non-EU countries. Within the non-
    facilitate the life of vulnerable 'adults-in-mobility' (AMs), as they EU, in 2008, the number of asylum seekers and refugees were
    interact with 'adults-professionally-in-contact-with-mobility' about 6 per 1000 of the EU population. Most of the EU member

    (ACMs) within institutional-bureaucratic systems. countries saw an increase in the number of asylum and refugee
    The project, led by the Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy, requests (IT +116%, NL and MT +89%). Being e.g. asylum seeker in
    involves partners from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Malta, a foreign country requires the competence to deal with
    The Netherlands, Poland, and Turkey. This project sets out to bureaucracy. While migrants need to acquire new terminology and
    develop: blended training courses for interactional parties different culturally determined communication practices, also
    involved in 'first-impact' bureaucratic-institutional interactions. service providers need to acquire awareness of the communication
    These courses revolve around a collection of real-life difficulties involved in this bi-directional interaction: "Integration is
    communication materials from a range of bureaucratic- a dynamic, two way process of mutual accommodation by all
    institutional contexts from different countries (EU and immigrants and residents of Member States" (1st Common Basic
    candidate); blended courses for ICC trainers and facilitators; and Principle, http://ec.europa.eu/ewsi/en/index.cfm).
    a multilingual online depository of communication materials that Preparatory work and needs analysis are, among others, from EU
    can be used by educators as well as AMs and ACMs. projects of the partners (SPICES, winner of a “Quality in Mobility”
    In collaboration with 33 associated members from all the partner Silver Award, UNEC winner of a “Quality in Mobility” Bronze
    countries as well as from a Third Country (Benin, West Africa), Award, CCT-I; Klein G.B. & Caruana S., eds.: Intercultural
    thereby guaranteeing maximum impact, the partnership uses a communication in bureaucratic and institutional contexts -
    range of sites and international events to disseminate its adult Proceedings of the Final Conference of the European Project
    training products. The impact will produce an undeniable change, SPICES. Perugia: Guerra 2008).
    during and after the project, in attitude toward mutual The partnership intends to work out a solution through the
    integration and improve communication between migrants (AMs) creation of learner-centred e-learning modules (in English,
    and service providers (ACMs) facilitating also intra-European German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish) through an Open-
    mobility. Source (DOKEOS), adaptive and conducive learning environment
    which provides both AMs and ACMs with the necessary spoken
    and written communication and relational skills to manage
    bureaucratic-institutional interactions. Furthermore a training
    course for e-tutors will be delivered.

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