The Project

promotes the social and professional inclusion of illiterate and low-literate migrants and refugees by strengthening the skills of the educators and social workers who support them. The project provides teachers with innovative approaches to second-language teaching for learners with limited reading and writing skills, and with the capacity to apply Easy-to-Read methodology to work-related content.

Through training, mobility, pilot courses and the development of practical manuals, S.P.A.R.K.L.E helps migrants acquire the language and professional vocabulary needed to access the labour market, while raising awareness about the challenges of low literacy in adult education.

Context

Across Europe, many migrants and refugees face a double barrier to integration:

- they need to learn the language of the host country

- but they cannot rely on reading and writing to do so.

Traditional language courses are often not designed for learners with very low or no literacy, leaving teachers without adequate tools and methodologies to support them effectively.

At the same time, access to the labour market requires not only language knowledge, but also the ability to understand work-related vocabulary and practical information.

This gap between language education, literacy level, and job integration is the context in which S.P.A.R.K.L.E operates.