Provide social workers with a new model, strategies and approaches based on cultural competence and emotional literacy (or soft skills technology, eg. improved communication and engagement, building trust, acting with mutual respect, ensuring client dignity and managing conflict effectively) to cope up and deal with the demands, conflicts and tensions of new immigrant groups.

• Introduce a new concept of and methodology based on emotional literacy principles to the social work/youth work sector and to the EU partners
• Overlay this with a cultural competence approach
• Create a pan-European team of social and youth workers, and researchers/trainers from partner EU countries committed to the development of this area
• Implement mobility activities
• Exchange experiences and establish 'best practice' in the field of Cultural Competence, Applied Emotional Literacy and Social Inclusion
• Lay the groundwork for an innovative social and youth workers in-service training programme, including teaching materials and methodologies

• 3 days visits to the Partner Countries (Lithuania, the United Kingdom)
• Organisation of Event in Malta
• Exchanges of staff / learners
• Research
• Exchange and transfer of experience and good practice
• Integration of theory and practice and its efficient application in VET institutio

• Coordinator: City of Wolverhampton College, UK
• Project Partners: Vilnius Pedagogical University, Lithuania
  • Paragon Limited, Malta

• Financial & Technical Reporting
• Organisation of Event in Malta
• Participation in events in Partner countries
• Conduction of research
• Preparation and distribution of PR materials
• Liaising with all the stakeholders involved
• Dissemination activities

The main deliverables of this project are:

• Interim & Final Reports
• Press Release
• PR materials (brochures, podcasts/ videocasts)
• Practical application of findings in VET institutions and across Partner countries