Project: “Mitigating Migration Challenges in the Western Balkans:  Bridging the Skills Gap for Social Care Providers via Curricula Enhancement and Micro Credential Development”

Goal: Enhance the capacity of students and social workers in the Western Balkans to address and empower migrant communities through culturally competent approaches

Specific Objective 1 To create a set of guidelines for integrating topics related to migration into existing curricula

Aktivities :

• Conduct thorough needs assessments to explore challenges and opportunities associated with migration in Kosovo and Albania
• Develop the guidelines  to introduce micro credentials as lifelong learning opportunities,
• Organize two roundtables, one in Kosovo and one in Albania, on discussing the migration challenges
• Organize a modelling practitioners day in Austria (Salzburg) as a showcase for project partners
• Organize practitioners’ days in Kosovo and Albania with social care service providers

Specific Objective 2 To revise and enrich the curricula of social sciences and psychology faculties in partner educational institutions to incorporate topics related to migration

Activities:

• Conduct a collaborative review of the existing social care curriculum, considering the findings of the needs assessment and guidelines
• Identify overarching themes or topics in the existing curriculum to be updated to be more applicable
• Develop ‘from theory to practice’ training programs for academic staf,
• Training of academic staff in in the newly developed curricula and courses
• Develop a book/collection of case studies
• Pilot  (implementation) revised   curricula  and courses in WV countries

Specific Objective 3  To develop and pilot digital short micro credential courses tailored for practicing social workers, focusing on specialized knowledge and skills necessary to address the u nique neeeds and challenges   faced by migrants.

Activities :

• Develop training programs for ToT in micro credentials in social care migration related topics
• Training of trainers from academic staff in university partners in to design and implement micro credential courses
• Development of micro credential courses in university beneficiary partners on certain migration topics, identified with assessment.
• Pilot the designed micro credential courses in selected Western Balkans HEIs to gather feedback through a summer school programs
• Finalize the micro credential courses and implement them in the future

University “Fehmi Agani” in Gjakova Promotes Innovation in Teaching Through the Edu4Migration Project

Rector Bunjaku and Dean Kamberi part of the WB-Edu4migration Project