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The efficacy of social inclusion process in EU member states for Asylum Seekers and beneficiaries of International Protection, is questioned because of the perceived decline in civic engagement, and in their capacity to organize themselves and participate in the social daily life (FRA, 2017). The European Commission Action Plan, when discussing the integration of migrants (2016), identifies education and training as one of the most powerful tools for integration. It encourages member states to 'organise civic orientation programmes for all migrants as a way to foster integration into the host society and promote the understanding and respect of the EU values'. Moreover, promoting equity, social cohesion and active citizenship is one of the four educational objectives set out in the European Union’s Education and Training 2020 strategic framework. The general objective of the proposed action is to create a training curriculum and subsequently modules on civic education for both newly arrived and/or settled Asylum Seekers and beneficiaries of International Protection through a unified online platform. The overall scope is to offer multi-faceted CE opportunities to the aforementioned target group by utilizing ICT technology to empower and support their social inclusion process into the host societies.The project is going to introduce an effective civic education training system which will equipped the target group with tacit knowledge such as virtues, norms and critical thinking so as to strengthen their autonomy, self-efficacy, to self-confidence and enhance their cognitive skills. It will also provide explicit knowledge about the values, roles and operational function of major public and semi-public institutions. Various stakeholders such as national and local institutions and NGOs/service providers will be able to utilize the platform and integrate it in their daily practice by providing citizenship relevant training to Asylum Seekers and beneficiaries of International Protection.To achieve these aims, the consortium of the project through a decision making process agreed to design and recommend the construction of the following intellectual outputs.IO1– Guidelines for consultation with stakeholders: This I/O entails the design and implementation of the consultations will all interested parties in order to reflect on the current delivery methods of Civic Education, collect evidence based practices and consequently develop the courses content. IO2 – CE MOdules: It envisages the creation of CE modules (design and development of the curriculum/content). The aim is to improve civic and intercultural competences and to enhance critical thinking for Asylum Seekers and beneficiaries of International Protection. The e-courses content development will be elaborated and constructed, based on the extracted results from the previous I/O –identification of needs. The e-courses content material will have a uniform set of learning standards. IO3 – E-Learning Platform Environment: This output comprises of the design, implementation and test of ICT components that create the PROM-PAR e-Learning Environment. It entails a multilingual Responsive web design to accommodate OER for autonomous learners. It will also act as a promotional media to create European awareness about the innovativeness of the PROM-PAR’s project and its outputs in order to ensure maximum outreach, longer impact and sustainability.IO4 – ECTS format for Civic Education: By adopting the notion that a growing number of learners would like to certify the gained knowledge from the courses, the project will offer them the ability to attend to online exams to be accredited with relevant ECTS credits. Those who will pass the exams, they will be awarded with 3 ECTS credits and a certificate, valid for all EU Member States. The project directly targets a number of different participants to get involved and participate into the different planned activities. In particular, over 500 Asylum Seekers and beneficiaries of International Protection potentially will be involved in the project stages - development, implementation, dissemination and exploitation. More than 5000 various stakeholders, additionally, primarily professionals will be reached through the dissemination of products. Each partner in the consortium has solid grounding networks in the field of adult education, migration and non-formal education provision both young and adult and everyone developed strong and trustworthy ties in their local networks.The outcome and results of the project will produce long lasting effects at local, regional, national and European level. The online platform will be fully equipped and have the capacity to support the provision of Civic education training to any vulnerable group within a society apart from Asylum Seekers and beneficiaries of International Protection; such as other migrant groups. Furthermore, PROM-PAR will encourage relevant stakeholders to exploit a
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