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