On the 6th May, researchers from the Euro-Arab Foundation in Granada held a workshop with over thirty-five high school students and staff at the prestigious educational Instituto Padre Suárez in Granada, to discuss the results of the EU funded ReBel project.
The Euro-Arab researcher, Karen L. Hough, presented the results of the ReBel project, which is being conducted along with Visio and Laurea University in Finland and What Design Can Do in Amsterdam. The researchers -with the assistance of Cecilia Pérez López del Moral, an English teacher at the same institute – engaged with the students to discuss pertinent themes related to migrant belonging. The students talked about their experiences in Spanish and English and suggested ways to better improve migrant integration, including the need for quicker recognition of academic qualifications and better measures to fight discrimination.
The students will be awarded certificates for their participation and will be invited to engage in future activities, which will involve policy roundtables in Spain with local, national and international policy makers.
