The goal of project REVaLUE is to enhance the labor inclusion of refugees, subsidiary protection holders and asylum seekers by improving their access to skilled jobs. The corrective action of REVaLUE will strive to tackle all major causes that prevent refugees’ labour integration, namely:- lack of recognition of knowledge, competence and skills, including previous studies;- deskilling;- lack of working experience in the host country;- language.Through a solid partnership, made of a combination of VET providers and migrant associations based in Italy, France, Germany, UK and Hungary, the project will:1. facilitate the recognition of formal, non-formal and informal knowledge, competences and skills of refugees/subsidiary protection holders/asylum seekers through the design and implementation of a toolkit for migrants' skills assessment; 2. transfer new highly qualifying skills to refugees/subsidiary protection holders/asylum seekers through tailored VET courses, one for “Migrant Service Providers” and another for “Social Enterprise Manager”, that meet their specific learning needs and characteristics, in particular the language; 3. provide refugees/subsidiary protection holders/asylum seekers with hands-on experience through the creation and implementation of work-based laboratories.The target group of project REVaLUE will be refugees/subsidiary protection holders and asylum seekers recently arrived to Europe. Female migrants will be given special consideration, integrating a gender approach in the design and implementation of project’s products. Although the beneficiaries of the action are constituted by humanitarian migrants only, the project’s products will be applicable to other kinds of migrants as well.The innovative feature of REVaLUE lies in the creation of 2 VET courses that put together the best characteristics of VET teaching methodologies (use of audio-visual teaching material, work-based training) with the needs and requirements of adult education (acquisition and strengthening of basic skills) all bound together with an effective language methodology (CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning). This innovative combination will make an exceptionally complete learning experience for the beneficiaries and will constitute an important example for future training development. The courses, moreover, will provide training for accessing well remunerated, medium/high-skills jobs in two sectors that are generally receptive to the participation of non-native workers, creating real opportunities for the beneficiaries to escape the low socio-economic cycle in which they often find themselves. A second innovative aspect of project REVaLUE is that it creates a skills assessment tool designed to assess both informal and non-formal learning and the level of education attained in the home country. Informal and non-formal learning have to be properly assessed to determine the whole spectrum of competences and skills and to direct the person who is being assessed towards the most appropriate educational and professional pathways. However, especially in the case of humanitarian migrants, including innovative ways to assess formal learning is equally important, given that they usually lack certificates and proof of their previous studies. The tool will be designed to make it easier for refugees to describe their educational experience, and for service providers and job counsellors to assess their effective level of education.Finally, project REVaLUE will not limit itself to the creation of a skills assessment tool, but it will build on that experience to create two other products:- a CV certified by the project for all beneficiaries of the skills assessment process. To this end the REVaLUE CV will bear in the cover page a description of the project and the assessment process that led to the drafting of the CV. - The report “Who migrates to Europe? Educational and professional profiles of refugees in EU countries”. The report will collect the assessing experience of the 5 countries in which the project is carried out, trying to draw a picture of refugees in terms of education and professional experience.
The REVALUE project realized a set of tools and methodologies that aim to support refugees and asylum-seekers in finding new labour and inclusion opportunities, thanks to the recognition of their already existing skills and competences and their integration with a new set of tailor-made knowledge that could help them in building up a job career in their new country. Moreover, REVALUE developed a holistic strategy to empower professionals working in the support to newly arrived refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants, by delivering them new tools for assessing their skills and providing new job-related competences, on the basis of a comprehensive and inclusive approach. Composed by a balanced set of VET/employment services providers and migrants' support organizations from Italy, Hungary, France, United Kingdom and Germany, the REVALUE consortium has been able to operate on the basis of a consistent, well-guided and harmonically structured effort, aimed at creating a fuitful cross-breeding of influences and guaranteeing the constant sharing of all output results. The good work accomplished by all partners made it possible to work coherently to what was planned at the beginning of the project, without the need of modifying any of the roles and tasks that were originally planned. As foreseen in the original application, project partners have realized the following outputs: - A toolkit for the assessment of migrants’ and refugees’ skills (IO1 – RESTART), tested on 201 refugees/asylum-seekers. RESTART will support the valorization of refugees/subsidiary protection holders/asylum seekers, helping them in acquiring new job opportunities thanks to the delivery of personalized CVs/Career Plans. - Two tailor-made VET/specialization Courses (IO3 – “Migrant Service Provider” and IO4 – “Social Enterprise Manager” Curriculum programmes, validated through the IO5 - Toolkit for the Validation and Quality Assurance of the Curricula), that will allow refugees/ subsidiary protection holders/asylum seekers to acquire new highly qualifying skills. The Courses, tested on 68 users, consist of a Course Plan, a Didactic Manual and a set of training materials. - A methodology for the creation and implementation of work-based laboratories (IO6), that have been tested and have provided an attestation for 46 users. WBLabs will provide hands-on job-related experience to refugees/subsidiary protection holders/asylum seekers, developing a more solid knowledge of the functioning of a work environment in the new country. - The Report “Who Migrates to Europe” (IO2), developed using the data and information collected in the Skills’ Assessment process and addressed to all stakeholders (from policy-makers to organizations that deliver support to migrants), in order to support the definition of new strategic approaches to social integration A particularly relevant testing activity has allowed partners to measure constantly the effectiveness and providing feedback collected directly on the field to improve the effectiveness of all tools developed during the project. In each of the partner countries, more than 50 individuals have taken part to the piloting of the IO1, for a total of 201 users all over Europe who have received a CV/portfolio delivered through the Revalue methodology. 68 users tested the two VET courses of REVALUE, while 46 users completed the WBL pathway, obtaining a certificate that will enrich their personal CV. REVALUE has exerted a consistent impact on the partner organizations that have cooperated for its implementation and realization. The opera of cross-fertilization of knowledge, experiences and expertise that took place since the beginning of the project, has been activated and enforced thanks to the strict collaboration and cooperation between all participants. Both on a national and on a transnational level, it has been possible to share fruitfully technical and scientific competences, contributing to increasing the quality of the product and guaranteeing the durable value of the REVALUE outputs for the years to come. All the outputs and results of REVALUE will be access-free for everybody, without any limitation. The decision to translate all contents into all the partner languages was meant to allow the maximum exploitability of the contents, without limiting any of the output to the English version and guaranteeing the wider adoption of the tools. Their content has been widely publicized through the dissemination opera made by the members of the Consortium. In particular, the decision to focus on the realization of a wide and comprehensive dissemination strategy was directly connected to the willingness to make them available to a wide audience of users, students, VET providers, migrants' support organizations, institutions and authorities active in the policy-makers.