ReHIn
Within this project we aim to create a number of creative digital resources to enable the integration of refugees into the European Union health culture. The fundamental objectives of “ReHIn” lay into the integration in terms of the use of the health services, but also in the way that health and medicine is practiced in EU in comparison to major refugees’ home countries. Through Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) and their combination into a MOOC, “ReHIn” will foster respect and understanding for diversity in Health, intercultural and civic competences, but also it will enable health values and citizenship within the EU.
ReHIn will create 6 creative digital resources that will be available to a wide audience of refugees through a MOOC, for the purpose of enabling the integration of refugees into the European Union Health Culture. ReHIn’s cocreative health culture and audio-visual resources aim to be understandable by the majority of the refugees without necessarily speaking immediately the host country language. The dissemination and exploitation of ReHIn will be done both at EU welcoming points but also in the country where the refugees are settled by collaborating with NGOs and National services.
ReHIn will aim to:
- help refugees and migrants socialise and express themselves without necessarily speaking the host country language
- allow them to learn platforms that foster respect and understanding for diversity, intercultural and civic competencies
- inform refugees about democratic values and citizenship
- give EU citizens the opportunity to discover, learn from and understand the values and cultures of refugees and migrants and rediscover and enrich their own
- offer the possibility of collaboration with organisations in other sectors in order to stimulate a more comprehensive, rapid, effective and long-term response to this global challenge.
Besides the educational material, the RLOs and the MOOC, ReHIn will include, on one hand, a needs analysis, that will point out the exact educational needs in regard to the healthcare system and will include raw data from the partner countries; on the other hand, the evaluation of the project outputs for the purpose of providing feedback and improving the project and the best practises and guidelines, that will encourage and inform similar initiatives.
This is a collaborative action research project between Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) University of Nottingham (UK), Aristotele University Thessaloniki (Greece) and Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain).