What is it about?
Today’s socio-economical crisis has forced many vulnerable citizens of Eastern Europe to seek better living conditions in other, wealthier countries. Thus new types of multicultural knowledge-based societies are formulated by heterogeneous groups of people, having different background, ethnic, linguistic, national, religious, physical, cultural and cognitive differences. The paper presents a training and development initiative, proposing a strategic approach to lifelong learning policy, based on adult learning and common qualification and credit acquisition framework, adaptable to the characteristics of the migrating groups.
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Why is it important?
Higher Education Institutions are able to embed scientific and technological innovations to everyday life and constitute the most important mediators between “mobile citizens” and the public bodies of each hosting country. The proposed methodology may inspire more such institutions to initiate similar educational activities towards facilitating vulnerable immigrants.
Perspectives
It is our strong belief that now, more than ever, Tertiary Education Institutions ought to become those agents that will provide vulnerable mobile citizens, immigrants, refugees, human traffic victims and people seeking political asylum educational facilities in order to overcome all the difficulties in adjusting to their new life and cultural environment.
Professor IOANNIS E KOUGIAS
TECHNOGICAL EDUCATINAL INSTITUTE OF WESTERN GREECE
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This page is a summary of: Mobility of Eastern European citizens: training and development, European Journal of Training and Development, November 2013, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ejtd-03-2013-0033.
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