LeNeMi
Learning Needs of Migrant caregivers (LeNeMi) aims to provide an international perspective on a new approach to formal and non-formal training for migrants assisting elderly people who live on their own, with their families or at a Residential Care Unit (RCU).
LeNeMi is a project conducted under the Grundtvig strand of the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
The project is a response to the following issues the project partners have come up against:
- The duration of existing courses for carers varies significantly from country to county, and within the same country.
- Often migrant trainees need to already speak the local language fluently before being admitted to a training course.
- Once training is complete, often no updating sessions are planned. Migrant carers are often left to work alone with the family or in the RCU with no access to further training or help to solve the problems they face.
Project partners aim at developing a different approach to training, one which builds on the experiences of those who are already involved in giving/receiving care at home or in a RCU, so as to better tailor training to the specific and practical needs of migrant carers, elderly people and their families and address the obstacles they meet.
To gain insight into the needs of those who are concerned, individual and group interviews will be conducted by the project partners with people from the target population. Focus will be on carers' own experiences in actual job positions they held. Specific attention will be given to cultural and linguistic differences.
The project, which was launched in August 2011, will last until July 31, 2013. The first project meeting was hosted by Studio Taf in Genoa on November 28-29, 2011.
Our partners in the project are: Studio Taf in Genoa (IT), the project's coordinating partner; West Lothian College in Livingston Scotland (UK); SUPSI DSAN in Manno (CH); and, Znanie - Center for Vocational Training in Sofia (BG).
Learn more about the project at: http://lenemi.wordpress.com
This project is funded with support from the European Commission.
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