Children Hybrid Integration (Child-up)

Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation

• Funding: EU Horizon2020 (grant agreement number 822400)
• Duration:  1.1.2019–30.6.2022
• Coordinator: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia UniMoRe (IT)
• Partners: EHS Zentrum (GER), ESHA (NL), IIHL (IT), Jagiellonian University (POL), Malmö University (SWE), SeAMK (FIN), Université Liège (BEL), University of Northampton (GBR), UniMore (IT)

Aims

• To better understand the conditions of social and personal life of migrant children to improve the level of their well-being and active participation within schools and in the social context
• To identify and analyse inspiring practices to understand and transform the social condition of migrant children
• To offer schools tools to reflect on and act for a successful inclusion of migrant children
• To provide relevant evidence to current policy debate and to stimulate the adoption of research-based public policies at the local, national and EU levels

SeAMK staff

• Tiina Hautamäki, principal investigator
• Henna Jousmäki, project manager
• Aino Alaverdyan, lecturer
• Previous project members and collaborators
  • Maiju Kinossalo, project manager
  • Paula Kuusipalo, leader of the quantitative work package
  • Jaakko Sihto, research assistant in the quantitative work package
  • also students have contributed to the project as part of their studies at SeAMK

Learn more

• How do you feel about school? Local report of interviews with children, and professionals on their school experiences: Finland (forthcoming)
• Life story pedagogy for identity – through linguistic and cultural recognition to participation and equity (forthcoming)
• Understanding intercultural competence: from conceptual and curricular objects to competence actions of teachers and social workers working with migrant children

Read more on project’s international website »