Building on the findings of the joint ETUCE – EFEE project “European Sectoral Social Partners in Education promoting effective integration of migrants and refugees in education” (2017-2019), the project ‘In and Through Education: Education Trade Unions support the inclusion of refugees and migrants’ aims to further build the capacity of the education trade unions on providing specific support to their affiliates regarding the inclusion of refugees and migrants in the education system, and linking it to the attractiveness of the teaching profession. The project also seeks to address the specificities of the refugees from Ukraine.

Advisory Group

  • Ana Simões FENPROF Portugal
  • Dorota Obidniak ZNP Poland
  • Juraj Stodolovský OZŠ Slovakia
  • İlker Akcasoy EGITIM-SEN Turkey
  • Maeve Mc Cafferty INTO Ireland

Funding

This project is funded with support from the European Commission.

The project features two 1.5-day roundtables in Ireland and Portugal which aim to discuss the outcomes of the online survey, delve into specific country cases, and facilitate the sharing of education trade unions' actions and practices. The in-depth exploration of country cases during the roundtables provides valuable insights into refugee and migrant inclusion experiences. Following the roundtables, insights gained inform the development of an Online Course (MOOC) for education trade unions that is to be developed in the framework of the project.