CrEDo: Creativity Hub for Upskilling Educators of Displaced Learners

The project “CrEDo: Creativity Hub for Upskilling Educators of Displaced Learners” aims to improve the creative, emotional intelligence and intercultural skills of educators, integration facilitators and volunteers working with displaced learners to help them create inclusive classrooms, develop new teaching approaches to meet complex needs of displaced learners and apply creative means to stimulate motivation, participation and learning achievements.

The project will provide educators with a comprehensive training programme, practices, tools and training using different creative means to support their students’ learning and apply inclusive and participatory teaching approaches for addressing efficiently the educational and psychosocial needs of displaced learners.

The OECD Report on refugee education integration models analyses the complexity of the needs of displaced learners and puts the importance on addressing not only their learning needs, but also their social and emotional needs. It states that well-trained educators play a vital role for ensuring the inclusion of refugees but they too need support in order to manage multilingual, multicultural classes, often including students with psychosocial needs.

The CrEDo project will aim to develop pathways for educators of refugees to build a positive relationship with their students, create a comfortable, inclusive physical and psychological learning environment, respond adequately to classroom  emotional situations, thus helping them shape and handle their own emotional state and the one of their learners in theeducational process, bridge cultural, linguistic or other differences in the classroom, communicate successfully across disciplinary cultures, etc.

The project will use creativity and art to promote inclusion and participation of displaced learners, contributing to improved mental health and wellbeing, reduced isolation, increased self confidence, better language and communications skills, safe space for self-expression, etc. This will help refugees build resilience and self-reliance as the most effective path for their gradual socio-economic inclusion.

The Credo Project Team

The project will develop:

• Training programme for improving the creative, emotional intelligence and intercultural skills of educators to successfully work with displaced learners
• CrEDo board game as a multidisciplinary creative task-based tool to create an inclusive, safe and supportive learning environment
• Transnational training and Creativity Training Labs to equip educators with skills necessary to effectively integrate creativity-based and trauma- and culturally-sensitive learning in their teaching practices

The project is funded by Erasmus+, and the partners are IFESCOOP, Valencia, Spain (lead partner); Consorzio FIQ, Pinerolo, Italy; KU TU, Sofia, Bulgaria; INTEGRA, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany ; Smashing Times, Dublin, Ireland; and InTheCity Studio, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

 

The project “CrEDo: Creativity Hub for Upskilling Educators of Displaced Learners” aims to improve the creative, emotional intelligence and intercultural skills of educators, integration facilitators and volunteers working with displaced learners to help them create inclusive classrooms, develop new teaching approaches to meet complex needs of displaced learners and apply creative means to stimulate motivation, participation and learning achievements. The project will provide educators with a comprehensive training programme, practices, tools and training using different creative means to support their students’ learning and apply inclusive and participatory teaching approaches for addressing efficiently the educational and psychosocial needs of displaced learners.

The OECD Report on refugee education integration models analyses the complexity of the needs of displaced learners and puts the importance on addressing not only their learning needs, but also their social and emotional needs. It states that well-trained educators play a vital role for ensuring the inclusion of refugees but they too need support in order to manage multilingual, multicultural classes, often including students with psychosocial needs.

The CrEDo project will aim to develop pathways for educators of refugees to build a positive relationship with their students, create a comfortable, inclusive physical and psychological learning environment, respond adequately to classroom  emotional situations, thus helping them shape and handle their own emotional state and the one of their learners in theeducational process, bridge cultural, linguistic or other differences in the classroom, communicate successfully across disciplinary cultures, etc.

The project will use creativity and art to promote inclusion and participation of displaced learners, contributing to improved mental health and wellbeing, reduced isolation, increased self confidence, better language and communications skills, safe space for self-expression, etc. This will help refugees build resilience and self-reliance as the most effective path for their gradual socio-economic inclusion.

The project will develop:

• Training programme for improving the creative, emotional intelligence and intercultural skills of educators to successfully work with displaced learners
• CrEDo board game as a multidisciplinary creative task-based tool to create an inclusive, safe and supportive learning environment
• Transnational training and Creativity Training Labs to equip educators with skills necessary to effectively integrate creativity-based and trauma- and culturally-sensitive learning in their teaching practices

The project is funded by Erasmus+, and the partners are IFESCOOP, Valencia, Spain (lead partner); Consorzio FIQ, Pinerolo, Italy; KU TU, Sofia, Bulgaria; INTEGRA, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany ; Smashing Times, Dublin, Ireland; and InTheCity Studio, Rotterdam, Netherlands.