Multimodal Interaction and Information

"<< Background >>Multimodal Interaction and Information (Multi-I) is a 24-month strategic adult innovation partnership aimed at empowering trainers of adults and educators by equipping them with powerful instruments and methodologies aimed at integrating adult refugees through the creation of multimodal pedagogical literacy tools.As a critical component of lifelong learning, multimodal literacy encourages adult people to engage civically, to overcome disadvantages, and to represent viewpoints that are oppressed and lacking. Adult people need to be able to communicate effectively in an increasingly multimodal world. This requires teaching them how to comprehend and compose meaning across diverse, rich, and potentially complex, forms of multimodal text, and to do so using a range of different meaning modes.The legal, economic and social inclusion of recently arrived refugees in the host society depends on how the different rights they are entitled to under EU and national law can be realized in practice. Adult refugees are commonly the object of stereotypical visual media representations and often have no choice but to position themselves in response to them. In our increasingly polarized mediatized world, better recognition of how the needs of certain adult people diverge depending on how they are situated in racialized, gendered, and classed structures of power is needed to work towards inclusive Multimodal Literacy Education. Otherwise, the integration process, which ended in failure, will confront Europe with serious problems such as social conflict, misconceptions, negative stereotypes and radicalization.According to Eurostat, more than 150,000 asylum applicants have been registered in the EU in the last three years. Their integration into Europe is of utmost importance. Studies show that one of the most important obstacles to integration is that while adult refugees have IT skills, they lack the capacity to make important media decisions and make educated decisions about their well-being.In the EU Action Plan on the integration of third-country nationals, the EU Commission pointed out that failure to integrate the newly arrived people can result in “a massive waste of resources, both for the individuals concerned themselves and more generally for our economy and society”.Migrants and refugees are expected to become part of social, economic, and community life in their host country. For adults with limited or no formal education and limited or no literacy, this presents a greater challenge than for educated adults. Refugees adults who overcome the language problem are exposed to multimodal messages in their social and digital environments, and this causes various misunderstandings. These problems cause unwanted problems such as not being able to integrate into society, experiencing adaptation problems and marginalization. The solution to these problems is to provide the target group with multimodal literacy skills. It is a prerequisite for educators and educators to increase their experience and experience in this field for the acquisition of these skills. The Multi-I project has determined educators and trainers, who will play an important role in the acquisition of these skills to adults, as the target group and planned the project outputs in a way that will enable them to gain competence in the field.<< Objectives >>Multi-I will deliver reach its objective through the following outputs:1-Phase of research and analysis: This step will be composed of;a)To research on effective national and international models of Creative Drama and Media Literacy and Digital Storytelling methodologies in the light of Multimodal Literacyb)Sessions of the national focus group with the target group and stakeholders; The Research Report 'Challenges in multimodal literacy and effective models to ensure the integration of adult refugees' will be the outcome of this process, providing the basis for the structuring of the training format 'Adult work ensuring social integration of the target group' to be tested during the Joint Staff Mobility period.2-During the Joint Staff, the development of the Multimodal Literacy Toolkit to ensure the integration of adult refugees and its draft will be produced. The Toolkit will be one of the Web Platform's Open Tools, organized in a PDF format, augmented by video tutorials of the Joint Staff's activities.3-To develop integration by Multimodal Literacy Web Portal, which serves as both an educational center for storing information materials and educational tools, such as the digitalized version of the Training Format in e-learning modules, the PDF version of the Toolkit and video tutorials, as well as a networking channel for trainers and members of adult organizations and NGOs to share good practice.<< Implementation >>1-Research Report ""Managing the Integration: Challenges to Multimodal Literacy "" to be composed of;The report will be widely available on the websites of the project Web Platform and partners and promoted by offline and online means at multiple levels.2-"" Training Format for Trainers of Adult"" training format focused on the brand-new joint educational approach of the methodologies of Creative Drama, Multimodal Literacy and Digital Storytelling.3-With the participation of trainers of adult/educators from partner organizations (5 educators/trainers per country/partner), one International Piloting Joint Staff 4-With the participation of adults from partner countries (5 adult refugees + 2 accompanying persons per country/partner), One International Piloting Blended Mobility of Adult Refugees 5-Local activities with the participation of 20 adult refugees per country are carried out in each partner country. Adult refugees who participated in the Blended Mobility will repeat the learned workshops during local events, serving as “Multimodal Literate” (2 per partner country). 6-Local seminars will be organized in each partner country (1 per partner country) with the participation of 10 educators/trainers from other adult learning centers, NGOs, and institutions who will be trained in the effective use of project results in their adult-focused activities.7-One Web Platform “Multimodal Media ” elaborated by Consortium partners functioning as both an educational hub storing informational materials and educational resources8-With the participation of 30 individuals among the general public, targeted adults, and stakeholders per event, one multiplier event per partner country was introduced to disseminate the IOs and result obtained during the project.<< Results >>The products we will obtain at the end of the project are as follows; Training Format for Trainers of Adult, Multimodal Literacy Toolkit, and One Web Platform.The Multi-I project aims to strengthen educators and institutions actively working in adult education with innovative pedagogical products for the integration of refugees, which is an important issue at the European level. At the same time, as Multimodal literacy is a skill that every age group should acquire, we aim to encourage cooperation between sectors and different education levels in the project.INTANGIBLE RESULTS-Stakeholders and trainers of the adult from each partner country provided with competencies and methodologies to ensure integration of adult refugees who will act as Multimodal Literate in society with the correct understanding of the messages transmitted by the skill of a critical perspective, which will develop against the texts presented in social media, online or physical environments-General public in partner countries stimulated to develop more inclusive attitudes towards adult refugees and reject prejudices/stereotyped narratives concerning them. Because they are now critical of the messages transmitted and understand the messages in the texts correctly."