When refugee and migrant children arrive in a new country, schools and social workers often scramble to figure out what actually works to help them settle in and succeed. This project collected the best proven methods for education and mental health support, tested them across 33 real communities in 6 European countries, and packaged everything into a ready-to-use platform with training curricula and practical toolkits. Think of it as a tested playbook — instead of every school or organization reinventing the wheel, they can pick up these tools and adapt them to their own context.
Schools, reception centers, and social organizations across Europe face the same challenge: when refugee and migrant children arrive, there is no standardized, proven method for supporting their education and mental health simultaneously. Each organization improvises its own approach, leading to inconsistent outcomes and wasted resources. The lack of tested, adaptable toolkits means organizations cannot train staff efficiently or measure what actually works.
The project built a Brokering Knowledge Platform of Effective Practices (BKP) combining education and mental health support tools, a central data repository for tracking outcomes across pilot sites, and a structured training curriculum organized in courses and units with learning objectives, delivery methods, and assessment processes — all packaged for off-line use and adaptation to different country contexts.
If you are an EdTech company looking to expand into inclusive education markets — this project developed a Brokering Knowledge Platform with tested curricula and data tools piloted across 33 communities in 6 countries. You could license or integrate these evidence-based modules into your existing platform to serve schools managing diverse student populations.
If you are an organization managing reception centers or integration programs and struggling with inconsistent outcomes — this project created a training curriculum and off-line toolkit package tested in hotspots, reception centers, and informal learning environments across 6 countries. These ready-made materials can standardize your staff training and improve results for children aged 0-18.
If you are a consultancy advising governments on migrant integration and need evidence-based recommendations — this project produced guidelines, capacity building criteria, and adaptation tools validated through 3 multisite pilot actions with 10 partner organizations in 7 countries. These deliverables give you a data-backed foundation for policy proposals.
The project does not publish licensing or implementation costs. The Brokering Knowledge Platform and training curricula were developed with EUR 2,997,830 in EU funding across 10 partners. Contact the coordinator at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona for pricing on access, adaptation, or training services.
The project was specifically designed for scalability. The off-line package includes guidelines for adapting solutions to specific country contexts, and the training curriculum covers adaptation requirements for different settings. Pilots ran across 6 countries (Sweden, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria) covering diverse regulatory and cultural environments.
As an EU-funded Innovation Action, results are typically owned by the consortium partners. The Brokering Knowledge Platform and training materials were co-created with communities. Contact the project coordinator to discuss licensing terms for commercial use or adaptation rights.
The project delivered 17 total deliverables including a central data repository for collecting outcome and process data across pilot sites, and a structured training curriculum organized in courses and units with learning objectives, delivery methods, and assessment processes. The final Brokering Knowledge Platform packages these into ready-to-use formats.
Three multisite pilot actions were conducted across 6 countries in 33 Communities of Learning and Practice. These covered hotspots, reception identification centers, inclusive school environments, non-formal learning settings, and institutional care for unaccompanied minors. The project ran from January 2021 to December 2023.
Yes. The project explicitly combines education with Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). The training curriculum and platform tools address both educational success and well-being, which is what distinguishes this from education-only approaches.
The REFUGE-ED consortium has 10 partners from 7 countries (Bulgaria, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Sweden), coordinated by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. The partnership is heavily academic and public-sector oriented: 4 universities and 6 other organizations with zero industry partners and zero SMEs. This means the tools and platform were developed with strong research rigor but without direct commercial input. A business looking to adopt or distribute these solutions would likely need to bring its own commercialization and go-to-market capability, as the consortium itself has no commercial deployment experience.
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain) — use the project website contact page or CORDIS contact form to reach the coordination team.
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