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Name: Mediterranean Inclusive Schools

The EU education systems are facing an important challenge – the presence in schools of large numbers of children from a migrant background who are in a weak socio-economic position. In particular, the Mediterranean countries and their neighbours are one of the most affected by the waves of immigrants seeking for asylum and better life.

The presence of significant numbers of migrant pupils has important implications for education systems. Schools must adjust to their presence and build their particular needs into the traditional focus on providing high quality and equitable education. Education is key to ensuring that these pupils are equipped to become integrated, successful and productive citizens of the host country.

Thus, within classes and schools, it is necessary to accommodate the increased diversity of mother tongues, cultural perspectives and attainments. New, adapted teaching skills and inclusive methodologies are needed and new ways of building bridges with migrant families and communities must be developed.

Migration can be enriching for the educational experience of all as it can help to deepen and strengthen pedagogies, skills, and knowledge itself.

The combination of linguistic and cultural difference with socio-economic disadvantage, and its tendency to be concentrated in certain areas and particular schools are a substantial educational challenge and whether systems succeed or fail has important social consequences.

The MEDIS project is to strengthen and consolidate social cohesion, intercultural education and local language in a multilingual framework of newly arrived migrants at primary and secondary schools through the Mediterranean Inclusive Schools Programme. The programme will adapt teaching skills and inclusive methodologies needed by the educational community: teachers and other pupils.

• Creating a school individual plan for reception and integration as a set of actions to attend to the incorporation of newly arrived migrant student.
• Implementtion of the Language Project – where the local language will be considered an instrument of social cohesion in a multilingual framework.
• Intercultural education – the students develop attitudes and skills needed to live in a multicultural and multilingual society;
• Reception classroom - an open work environment within the educational centre, which facilitates the immediate and more adequate attention of the newcomer students;
• School Adaptation Workshop - resource aimed at students who are incorporated into the educational system during compulsory high school level with lack of knowledge of the official language and serious deficits of initial knowledge;
• Training for schools centres - an essential tool to adapt teachers' current competences to new realities.
• Training and professional development of teachers on how to deal with diversity.

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Number: 592206-EPP-1-2017-1-ES-EPPKA3-IPI-SOC-IN
Programme: ERASMUS+; KA3 – Support for Policy Reform
Duration: 15.01.2018 - 14.01.2021
Partners: WORD UNIVERSITY SERVICE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN – Spain;
Ajuntament de Maçanet de la Selva – Spain;
Secció d'Institut de Maçanet de la Selva – Spain;
HFC HOPE FOR CHILDREN CRC POLICY CENTER – Cyprus;
Centre for the Advancement of Research and Development in
Educational Technology ‘CARDET’ LTD – Cyprus;
KENTRO MERIMNAS OIKOGENEIAS KAI PAIDIOU – Greece;
KNOW AND CAN ASSOCIATION – Bulgaria;
REGIONAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SOFIA-CITY – Bulgaria;
CESIE – Italy;
Sociedade Promotora de Estabelecimentos de Ensino Lda - Portugal