Diversity - Including Migrants through Organisational Development and Programme Planning in Adult Education

Diversity Introduction

DIVERSITY - Including Migrants through Organisational Development and Programme Planning in Adult

Education - aims to:

• Raise awareness of the challenges and opportunities arising from migration related diversity.

• Explore how the EU Adult Education system can shift from focusing on migrants as a separate

target group for education to mainstream provision that sensitively prepares migrants for

integration into their new society

• Equip managers and planners with the skills needed to sensitise adult education providers to

migrants as a part of a regular adult education target group

The project consortium involving seven partners from six countries, (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece,

Ireland and Italy) will work together under the leadership of the principal partner Agentur für Erwachsenen-

und Weiterbildung (AEWB), based in Hannover Germany will work together to attain the project outcomes

The DIVERSITY project will develop training resources to enable adult education providers to graduate

from the contingency approach and move towards an operational model for a more diversity-informed AE.

This process of “normalisation” will require adult education systems across the EU to readjust their current

strategies and to create a new model of adult education providers planning and provision more open to the

diversity of migrants and refugees. In a revised mainstream migrants and refugees are not viewed as special

cohorts of participants but as a regular target group of an increasingly more diverse audience for adult

education.

The Department of Adult & Community Education at Maynooth University represents Ireland in the

partnership and brings its expertise as the only dedicated academic adult education Department in a

university in the Republic of Ireland.

For further information on DIVERSITY visit the DIVERSITY Website: https://www.aewb-nds.de/themen/eu-

programme/diversity/ or the Department of Adult & Community Education website at

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/adult-and-community-education/our-research