ILO - Intercultural Learning Online

The growing immigrant population in Europe makes visible the fact that there is a large number of refugees and immigrants whose skills, capacity and expertise are not being properly utilized in E...

The aims of the project in higher education were to promote intercultural understanding, teaching and learning, and to create new models for integrating well-educated migrants into teaching activities. It also improved the self-esteem of migrant students by providing them with role models of highly educated migrants. The project made the skills of highly educated migrants visible and better utilised. The aim was to create a Europe-wide network, organising migrant NGOs and higher education institutions to work together. During the project, workshops organised jointly by the higher education institutions and migrant NGOs were piloted.