What was Art4Inc about? Art4inc was developed in response to the challenges facing adult educators who are working with an ever-increasing number of marginalized people, in particular migrants and refugees. Educators are the key enablers to support these communities on an educational journey to the highly valued key competencies that are essential for social inclusion and personal fulfillment. Yet many front line staff working in community programmes lack sufficient training to help build the key competences of their target groups, and adequately address linguistic, social and cultural barriers. What did Art4Inc do? Art4Inc used the ancient artistic disciplines of storytelling, music and drama to develop, test and implemented bespoke training resources that support adult educators in engaging with the acquisition of the key competencies among migrant and refugee groups and other marginalized communities of Europe. What has Art4Inc achieved? 1. IN-SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAMME AND HANDBOOK - Learner manual and research report that contributes to the continuous professional development being relevant to any educator working to support the inclusion of marginalized groups in any educational setting. 2. BUILDING BASIC SKILLS - Art4inc teacher's toolbox e-book is a suit of 12 open access learning resources in all partner languages, 4 for each of the three artistic disciplines selected: storytelling, drama and music. The resources developed support the acquisition of basic skills and are useful to any front-line worker engaging adult migrant 3. MULTI-LINGUAL E-LEARNING PLATFORM - In-service training programme providing access to the full suite of Educators Toolbox of Alternative Educational Resources and optimized for mobile access on laptop, tablet or smartphone 4. SCIENTIFIC PAPER - The document examines the experience of the project partners in 6 different countries and making key recommendations for future developments. How did Art4Inc achieve its objectives? The primary target groups of the art4inc project were adult education professionals and migrant support workers who are engaged at the front-line of the migrant integration process. The 7 project partners had extensive close contacts with the adult education and migrant integration professionals working in a range of diverse adult and community education settings with whom they interacted on a daily and weekly basis. This was also the initial target group for dissemination activities outside our partnership in the early phases of project planning and development. Each partner established a research control group comprising 6 to 8 adult education or migrant support workers. These forums were been used to test and validate the development actions of the consortium and the products and resources developed. This was an important element of the dissemination strategy in that has helped to build a cohort of advocates for the project in each local area. Once the development process had started, project partners extended their dissemination activities beyond the local and individual focus to regional, national and international level to organisations and institutions dealing with adult education, integration of migrants, lifelong learning and social integration. These organisations have been important multipliers in the dissemination strategy of the project. Local Learning Festivals have taken place in Germany, Ireland, Romania, Spain, Czech Republic and Finland and a final conference in Germany. These public events were used to present all project outputs to relevant target group representative bodies. All project results were presented to the relevant target group representatives at these public events. More than 25 adult migrants took part in learning activities during the festivals in each participating country and 90 adult education and migrant integration sectors participated in the final conference in Germany. In addition, at least 10 education managers and policy-makers participated in the National Campaign Events in each partner country at the end of the project when the scientific paper was finalized. The project was considered to be innovative among local participants because neither the adult educators nor the migrant learners engaged in local implementation activities had ever completed targeted training that helped them to use artistic disciplines to support integration activities. Some local projects have as early as used storytelling to support the integration of migrants in the past. But using storytelling still requires a certain level of competence in the host language. By using drama and music techniques, Art4Inc has made it possible for local adult educators to reach migrant learners with no English language skills at all and supported them to engage these adult learners in personal and social development programmes. This represents a significant innovation for adult education in the regions of partner countries.

"Europe faces a real and ongoing threat from violent extremism. A small minority of groups continue to present false arguments and reasoning that seek to justify attacks on innocent civilians. Radical extremists have shown a mastery of global communication networks, using the Internet to disseminate graphic videos and electronic magazines to spread anti-establishment rhetoric and volumes of ‘fake news’ items to attract potential sympathizers. The radicalization of vulnerable youth within Europe is a relatively new issue and the latest one that youth professional and front-line staff are being asked to address. CONCORDIA provides an innovative and comprehensive response to support youth professionals, front-line youth service providers, educators and trainers and migrant support workers. The consortium comprised eight partner organizations: Romania, Austria, Czech Republic, Ireland, France, Cyprus, Finland, Germany. It included organizations with expertise in front-line youth development work; the design and delivery of education and training materials and programmes; the development and provision of continuous professional development training; digital and social media production training; web development and the design of intuitive e-learning environments. On this basis, following concrete results were achieved: (1) A Summary Research Report - The report identified that while the radicalization threat differs from country to country. But digital and social media are extensively used by subversive and extremist groups in each partner countries to engage vulnerable youth. (2) A Countering Radicalization Continuous Professional Development Training Curriculum - a completely new continuous professional development training curriculum that empowers front-liners to deal with the threat of radicalization. The curriculum was designed as a blended learning training course and comprises a total of 100 hours of study. (3) Sample Media Content Tool-kit with Tip-sheets - a suite of sample media outputs. These samples were developed as prototypes that the front-line workers according to their requirements can copy or emulate and include a series of short viral videos; 3 short audio files; a sample web-blog, Facebook page, Twitter feed and Instagram account. (4) The E-Learning-Portal - offers access to all CONCORDIA resources. The portal is optimized for online self-directed learning and for mobile access and works equally well on laptop, tablet or smartphone devices. (5) An On-line Observatory of Best Practice – include projects, methodologies, tools and resources. The observatory provides instant access to a library of tools and resources that support the fight against radicalization and extremism. (6) A Policy Paper ""Countering the Radicalization of Vulnerable Youth - A Front-line Approach"" - The key issue that the policy paper addresses is the essential role that appropriate continuous professional development plays in supporting front-line youth professionals to achieve quality outcomes in social and educational terms especially when faced with issues like the radicalization of vulnerable youth where specific skill sets are essential. All training resources can be accessed through the project website www.concordia.website where there is a link provided to the e-learning portal which has been developed. All resources developed are available in English, German, French, Czech, Greek, Finnish and Romanian. There is also a link to the project Facebook page where front-line youth workers can connect with like-minded individual throughout Europe."