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Press Release about the LTT Event: “Challenges and Opportunities in Education for refugee and asylum seeking youth in Europe: Exchange of Knowledge and Good Practices” Sweden, Fryshuset, 5-9 February 2018

On behalf of the Regional Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education of Central Macedonia, Lina Staikou (Coordination of the European Programme, Erasmus +, KA2, Xenios Zeus) and Smaro Chiona (Working group for the management, coordination and monitoringof refugee education) participated in a five-day Erasmus+ joint staff training event at Fryshuset in Stockholm, Sweden from 5 - 9 February 2018.

 The event was organised by Fryshuset, in association with 9 organisations from 7 European countries and funded through the Erasmus+ Programme for strategic partnerships on school education.

 The mission of the event was to exchange and share good practices in refugee education among different groups of stakeholders, as well as to generate mutual learning effects among different European countries.

 The findings of the event contributed to the development of policy and practice handbook.