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Full project title: Culture Compass: Navigating newcomers for cultural integration through digital learning

Culture Compass is an Erasmus+ funded project is designed to enhance and educate foreign youths on the cultural knowledge of their new/host country.

Objectives of the project

The objective of the Culture Compass project is designed to enhance and educate foreign youths on the cultural knowledge of their new/host country. This will foster a sense of belonging, allowing for cultural integration, intergenerational, social inclusion, and civic engagement among the target groups.

The bespoke interactive material created will be engaging and immersive, with the aim of bridging the gap between the newcomers and their new/host countries, ensuring they integrate into their new community and gain a deeper understanding of the culture, traditions, and values.

The Culture Compass project will focus on primarily youths aged 18-30 years old. The digital material created will provide a dynamic and engaging learning experience designed specifically to appeal to this age range.

Although the project focuses on those from diverse backgrounds, they all have a common goal of cultural integration and social inclusion. The consortium will create a supportive and inclusive learning environment that motivates the target groups, fostering cultural awareness, allowing the newcomers to embrace and adapt to their new/host communities.

Target groups of the project

The direct target groups for the Culture Compass project are foreigners currently residing in partner countries between the ages of 18-30, with the aim of educating them through innovative and engaging educational content that will greatly contribute towards them feeling included and part of their new community.

Direct target groups:
- Immigrants currently residing in partner countries.
- Migrants currently residing in partner countries.

Other target groups:
- Refugees currently residing in partner countries.
- Expatriates currently residing in partner countries.
- Organisations, associations, and NGOs working directly with the target groups.
- Citizens from the partnering countries who wish to learn more about their country’s history or culture, including those who have relocated to a different area within their country.
- Areas of interest to the target groups such as local learning centres, libraries, and community centres.
- Education and training centres.
- Municipalities.

The age range of 18-30 years old is very important to this project, as it is those from this age range that usually lack cultural understanding, this could be due to lack of exposure to different cultures and limited life experiences, plus the lack of interest to learn and educate themselves as they may have different priorities such as education and career development.

Project Results

The partners will begin the project by circulating a survey to those directly from the target groups. The survey will capture the needs that will be addressed by the target groups ahead of the content creation.

Create content that will be hosted on the website will include:
- The history of each partner country
- Traditions of each partner country
- Interactive cultural learning exercises
- Success stories from those from the target groups who have successfully integrated into society and their new communities
- Podcasts
- Interactive maps or hot-spot maps where the users can learn about different regions in each country
- Links to external associations, organisations etc that the target groups may find useful including language learning of the country (links on where the users can learn the language, language schools etc)

The final result of the project will be a website that will host all of the material created.
The website will be available to anyone who has a device and an internet connection.

Content will be translated and available in English, Portuguese and Spanish, plus the most common languages spoken by the target groups in their countries.

Project Partners
The consortium consists of three partners…

Project start date: 1st December 2024
Project end date: 31st July 2026

Project number: 2024-1-ES02-KA210-YOU-000246586

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.