Country: Greece

Partner organization which has initiated a good practice: Action Synergy

Organization -s which implemented a good practice if different of organization initiated a good practice: Municipal Library of Athens

Contact information: Municipal Library of Athens
Domokou 2, Stathmos Larissis, 10440, Athens, Greece
Foteini Balayianni, balagiani@hotmail.com

Format of dissemination: physical

Theme of the projects: B. Intercultural communication and language training

Implementation of good practice

The Municipal Library of Athens is the Central Library of the Municipality of Athens which is located in the area of “Stathmos Larissis”, an area which has a high number of immigrants. For this reason, the staff of the library has shown particular interest in the implementation of the LLP project METIKOS- Informal Language Learning for Immigrants (www.metoikos.eu) and specifically in the implementation of the methodology for the organisation of Language Café for immigrants.

The Municipal Library of Athens is already organising interactive activities for immigrant children every Wednesday. In this framework, they have started to organise in parallel language café for the parents of these children, so that they could be in the same space with their children but- in parallel- to use in a constructive way their time and benefit from the development of their skills. The language café sessions continue to be organised every Wednesday evening and last for 1 hour. The participants are mainly the parents of the immigrant children that are participating in the interactive activities group.

Before the start of the implementation of the METIKOS methodology, the staff of the Municipal Library of Athens has received training from Action Synergy on the methodology and on the way of implementation of this methodology.

Impact

Through the implementation of the METIKOS methodology, the Municipal Library of Athens:

• Has increased its contacts with the immigrant communities living in the neighbourhood of the library
• Has found a way to combine the presence of the childrens‘ parents in the premises of the library with the provision of concrete benefits for their time
• Has increased its educational profile

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