Considering troubled political situation in the Middle East and Asia , immigration has grown rapidly in recent years in Turkey and Europe. Therefore, additional tools are needed in order to integrate the immigrants and refugees arriving in Europe. The core of successful integration is language learning, herein, mobile applications are successful educational resources that can be targeted at the immigrants as a large percentage of them are digitally literate and interested in new opportunities in their new countries. In the framework of this project, we focus on establishing a language-learning solution, this enables the refugees/immigrants to study and learn said language and get familiar with the culture and conception of their new country. This mobile application will be ready for download on the application markets free of cost.
Our target group will be the immigrants in Turkey and European countries. L@ngu@ges4all smartphone application will provide refugees and immigrants the advantage of learning the native language of the country in advance after the residence permit has been granted. Other immigrants who have already been living and working in their new home country will benefit from the L@ngu@ges4all applications as well. The application will consist of 6 target languages ( Turkish, English, German, Czech, Italian and Bulgarian ) and at least 6 support languages. These languages will be the most widely spoken by the immigrants in each of the partner countries
The L@ngu@ges4all phone app will include the subjects that are necessary for the first adaptation in the new country including illustrated vocabulary to facilitate recognition and audio visual content to engage users in innovative ways. The topics will involve country-specific concepts to assist integration in each of the partner countries. Our intention is to generate a free basic language course that is easy and fun to use and can be marketed towards end useres with smart effective and creative forms of dissemination. The major impact of the app on the project partner countries is based on prospect. The impact will be significant on region, nation and European-wide scale.The ratings of the applications on the app markets and amount of downloads will measure the projected impact, and the feedback from users is essential to ongoing improvements. Project L@ngu@ges4all is divided in key phases in order to organize and plan project activities and events, and implement the project outputs. Project meetings and other project management activities are anchored in the phases according to topic, expertise of the partners and goals. General phases of implementation are: Project monitoring and Evaluation Quality Assurance & Evaluation Financial reporting and Dissemination L@ngu@ges4all will also go through the following phases specifically: Intellectual Outputs Multiplier Events Pilot Sessions Transnational meetings and Online meetings All 5 project partners have extensive expertise working with projects, both language- and immigrant-related, and all have a large network of contacts that will be utilized.
The strategic partnership offers a synergy of broad experience from 5 countries, making an innovative use of a mobile tool for learning language in Europe. The expected results are to have around 1000-1500 mobile application downloads of all the mobile application language versions in total after one year of the project completion. To reach this number of downloads, the partners will contact refugee centers, immigration, associations dealing with migrants and use social media as a tool for disseminating the apps in addition to the app store, Android/IOS. We expect at least 500 “likes” on the Facebook project page. The desired outcome of L@ngu@ges4all is to provide refugees with a pathway to acquire and improve the necessary language skills to increase their ability to participate in social events and improve their social interaction, thereby integrating into their new environment. Using the smartphone applications created within this project will give them a head start in learning the native language of the country while waiting for their decisions from immigration or after the residence permit has been granted. These applications will also be useful for any other immigrants who have already been living and working in their new home country for some time.