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Mothers European Dictionary
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Rationale

• Key facts
• Austria is one of the larger European
  immigration countries
• 12,5 of the about 8 Million inhabitants
• were borne abroad
• The largest immigrant groups come from
• - the former Yougoslavia
• - Turkey
• - Eastern Europe

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Rationale

• The immigration debate focuses on asylum and
  asylum policy
• Immigrants are often seen as a burden to
  economy and society
• Ethnicsation of crimes
• Immigrationdebate as an election issue
• Sensational media reporting distributes
• racist or xenophobic ideas and feelings

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Idea of the project

• Mothers dictionary is based on 4 elements
• We are all living in the European Common
  
• House
• United in diversity is the motto of the
  
• European union
• Presently the EU citizicens have a feeling
  of staying outside of the EU
• The european jargon words and acronyms
  
• are very confusing to the general public

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Idea of the project

• Terms like

DG
EC
EFTA
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EEA
Brussels had decided
should be translated into own words to make EU
simple and easy to understand
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Objectives

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To fill the keyword social inclusion
with life To bring together women with
different national
background and individual
understandings to talk about the unknown
European Union To initiate cross
cultural learning experiences To gain
useful and helpfull knowledge about the
European jargon To strenghten
integration and participation in
society of both groups of women To
empower through gaining
(political)knowledge
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Objectives
To start a dialogue between older female citizens
of Graz and migrant women To target multiple
levels in the society of the city To minimize
xenophobia To push away boundaries To find a
specific topic of knowledge which is interesting
and more or less new for both groups of women
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Criteria for sucess

Focusing on the objectives, criteria for sucess
are not really measurable, but we can say Sucess
is starting a process of intercultural
learning starting the individual process in
thinking that diversity is not a problem
but an advantage starting a dialogue
between aliens a little bit better
understanding of how the EU works.
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Obstacles, risks
Language barrier (ie. poor language
skills) Fluktuation of migrants Coursefees Find
ing the participants
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Timeplanning

• Course details
• A series of free Meetings (10 times, 2 hours)
• Venue ie. a library, a private place .....
• Staff project manager, referent, translator
• Content
• Meeting Introductory meeting
• finding topics of interrest
  for future
• meetings
• Meeting 2 10
• Working on the choosen topics
• (informal, process oriented, with fun)

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Evaluation

• Mothers dictionary is choosen as a
• model of good practice
• in the field of the Austrian senior education
• The criterias are
• - Aspect of gender
• - Intergenerational aspects
• - Social dimension
• - Participation
• - Sustainability
• - Engaging new groups of learners

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Thank your for your attention
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