DREAMM (Develop and Realise Empowering Actions for Mentoring Migrants)

The project involves 6 EU countries: Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Malta, Italy and Greece and intends to encourage the integration of newly arrived TCNs who arrived for family reunification or applied for asylum as in the case of the Mediterranean countries Italy, Cyprus, Greece and Malta.

Integration between newly arrived third-country nationals (TCNs) and local communities is still a challenge for the EU. This is true even more so when TCNs are refugees or asylum seekers. In addition to orientation and dedicated services for newly arrived migrants, one powerful tool for local development and social change has proven to be volunteering. However, to become an effective and structured practice in the migration field, volunteering needs management and professional skills that are still unclear, unformal and poorly used by migration professionals.

DREAMM, with its application of cultural and gender diversity approach, will offer a structured orientation and field activities to 900 adult TCNs, 150 professionals and 300 local community members.

It will achieve the aforementioned with numerous mindful and meaningful learning events and joint social activities in each territory to empower TCNs, facilitate communication with local services and foster a community-based response to the challenges of the integration process. The 8 partners have different field experiences in migration issues, operate with an interdisciplinary scientifically sounded approach to produce workshop material in 4 languages (en, de, gr, it).

85 learning events will provide participants with language, civic and intercultural communication knowledge and skills (WP2) and 7 joint social activities (WP3) leading to the definition of 3 different DREAMM mentorship competence profiles for the migration context (WP4). In WP5, 3 different Toolkits are going to be produced:

1 to form DREAMM Lead-Mentor professionals

1 directed to DREAMM Lead-Mentors preparing and guiding volunteers

1 for volunteer DREAMM Mentors to guide their interactions with newly arrived TCNs.

These Tools enable capacity building and scaling, mainstreaming DREAMM as an integral part of migration, volunteering and civilsociety organizations’ practice beyond the project.

Website: www.dreamm-project.eu