About the Project

The main objective...

is to develop an innovative, multidimensional, transversal & interactive approach for enhancing the competences of university academia to conduct through the environmental summer school an educational process regarding social inclusion & integration of people from vulnerable groups, migrants & refugees (mainly Ukrainian refugees) in the EU society and to support them to understand & adapt better to the current European context and to apprehend, respect & appreciate the shared European values.

IntegratEU sets out also the following specific objectives:

• Raise the awareness of the university academia about the need to organize and conduct on-wheels summer schools (OWSS) in environment protection & management and through the education process to support the integration of the beneficieries from the viewpoint of the shared European values, principles and identity and to overcome the existing stereotypes & prejudice towards migrants & refugees.
• To develop the necessary tools for university academia to teach the people from vulnerable groups, migrants & refugees on the importance of environmental sustainability & protection as part of one of the three main pillars of the EU.
• To create the required framework & guidance for university academia to organize OWSS where through face-to-face & outdoor activities the people from vulnerable groups, migrants & refugees will be more open, willing & capable to understand the EU policy & shared values in order to be more prepared and to integrate better in the common EU family.
• To enhance the competences of the university academia to help & support the people from vulnerable groups, migrants & refugees to meet local people in order to facilitate their better integration in local community & in society in general.
• To expand & deepen the knowledge & skills of the university academia to support the people from vulnerable groups, migrants & refugees to get a better understanding of local & European higher education, to facilitate their contact with the university professors & to motivate them to enrol in the higher education system after the OWSS.

The target group are...

the representatives of the university academia with interest in environment management, sustainability & protections as well as in supporting the social inclusion & integration of valuable groups, migrants & refugees in the EU values, principles and identity. The main project target group includes: university professors; junior and senior assistants; university researchers; postdoctoral scholars; PhD students working in the field of IntegratEU topic, etc.