This Module deals with the context and relations, with specific reference to the building of an inclusive environment within Higher Education Institutions and to the creation of networks between HEIs and local communities. Thanks to solid relations and networks between HEIS and other local stakeholders, refugee students will get acquainted with local initiatives and communities, developing a sense of belonging and acquiring the motivation for proactive behaviour.
Chapter 4.1. Definition of “community action”
4.1.1. Definition of community action
4.1.2. Social forms of collective actions and mobilization
4.1.3. Roles of different actors in collective actions and mobilization: individuals, groups of people, civil society organisations, networks, other stakeholders (i.e., schools, local authorities, other institutions: religious, foundations, NGO´s)
Chapter 4.2. Building inclusive and integrated community networks
4.2.1 The difference between an ‘inclusion’ and an ‘inclusive’ community
4.2.2. What are the conditions for the establishment of an inclusive and integrated community network?
4.2.3. How to establish an inclusive community network?
4.2.4. What’s the role of the refugees?
4.2.5 What’s the added value of a community network?
Chapter 4.3. Including refugees as volunteers and mobilizing them
4.3.1. Why engaging refugees and have them known to the local community?
4.3.2 A multi-level approach: from government and local authorities to civil society, groups of people and individuals
4.3.3 How to engage refugees as volunteers and what is the contribution of the local community (a two-way process between refugees and the local population)?
Chapter 4.4. Selected national contexts
4.4.1 Greek context
4.4.2. Italian context
4.4.3. Portuguese context