The number of refugees sparked in Europe in recent years. Afghans are one of the largest among them. Therefore, there is a substantial need for their integration measures. With our project, we want to contribute to the support gender dimension of the immigration by supporting only Afghan women migrants and build professional capacity and educational capacities to enabling enter to the EU labour market. We will exchange our good practices and we want to develop new guidelines and programs to help Afghan women migrants. This is significantly important to support them and enhance their key capacities in order to enter the EU labor market. Objectives of the project the main objective of our project is to seek ways and exchange our practices how to help Afghan women to achieve and gain relevant and high quality skills and competences. Afghan women needs to be prepared before applying to the job and start working outside of their homes and in a workplace. Cooperation will involve an exchange of methods and practices to broaden and strengthen our competencies at European level. We will look at the situations around Afghan women migrants in the individual partner countries and elaborate solutions to the problems of their key capacities (socio-educational and professional). Number and the profile of the participants Four partners from Germany, Italy, Poland and UK. Partner from Germany advisa Unternehmensberatung GmbH is the partner from Germany. Advisa has tremendous experience in offering entrepreneurship seminars. In the past, 1,600 business start-up seminars were held in German, Russian, Dari and Turkish, and about 800 business plans were drawn up. Partner from Poland Stowarzyszenie Współpracy Polsko - Afgańskiej Hamkari is a Polish-Afghan association. The purpose of this association is the development of cooperation between Poland and Afghanistan, particularly in the field of science, culture, media, tourism and health care. Partner from Italy: Our partner from Italy is an educational institution working in Italy. ARSAP-Impresa Sociale is non profit organization founded in 1995 with focus on training and research. It deals particularly with vocational training for your people and adults, employed or unemployed. The Arsap also work as placement and reintegration centre for young people. Partner from UK: British Afghan Women’s Society (BAWS) is a charity women led organization located in UK. BAWS has been directly working with Afghan women and advisa chose BAWS for its experience and dedication to the Afghan community, especially women in Afghanistan. They also organized English language classes for adult women who did not have high education. Description of activities The project management and coordination will be carried out by the partner from Germany and the task of disseminating project results will be transferred to all project partners. Throughout the project, there will be 4 transnational project meetings, which will be used to cope with the existing capacities and resources to be used, to develop plans for learning exchange of good practices and to develop a network with participating partner organizations. The core aim of our activities is exchange of good practices among project partners in order to develop new guidelines, methods, and programs to help Afghan women migrants entering to the European labour market. There will be also three workshops designed for the second year which will be discussed how methods and guidelines we will develop to support Afghan women migrants on their socio-educational and professional developments. Methods of implementation of the project: In our methodology for this project we are planning to make sure a mechanism of planning, developing, controlling, and delivering set up for the project to make sure project partners involve and implement their tanks accordingly. The core theme for the project is about coordination between the partners on implementation, quality check and outcomes of the project. Results and effects The intercultural competence of the participants should be strengthened as well as openness for processes at European level in connection with the work in the area of Afghan women in Europe. The established network of internal and external partners will be used to discuss the possibilities and methods of education for Afghan migrants and to promote the dissemination of the project results achieved. Potential long-term benefits The current and future needs of the Afghan women migrants are taken into account in the project. The established network will remain stable and active even after completion of the project. Other projects can also benefit long-term from the project results achieved and the nature of the project.
Afghans are one of the major refugee groups with particular cultural problems in Europe. Therefore, there is a considerable need for integration measures. With our project, we have given special consideration to the gender dimension by focusing on Afghan migrant women. We have taken into account technical and educational aspects of the project to enable migrants to enter into the EU labor market. We shared good practices and developed new programs to help the Afghan migrant women. Therefore, this is essential to support them and improve their key capacities to enter the EU labor market. All the participants have been more and more engaged in the project with Afghan women. The main objective of our project was to find ways and share our practices to help Afghan women gain and acquire relevant and high-quality skills and competences. Afghan women increasingly need key qualifications before applying for a job. In particular, they must be prepared for equal cooperation with men in the workplace. The project work was predominantly an exchange of methods and practices to broaden and strengthen our competences, taking into account the European dimension. We examined the situation of Afghan migrant women in each partner country and developed ideas for strengthening key competences for the professional sector. advisa Unternehmensberatung GmbH is the partner from Germany and has a great deal of experiences in offering entrepreneurship seminars. Stowarzyszenie Współpracy Polsko - Afgańskiej Hamkari is a Polish-Afghan association. Two women with Afghan migrant backgrounds sit on the board. Our partner from Italy also is an Italian educational institution. ARSAP-Impresa Sociale is a non-profit organization founded in 1995 with a focus on education. It is particularly concerned with the vocational training programs for adults. Giresun Lisesi is also another partner and it is a secondary school at the city of Giresun Turkey. In Turkey, migrants are distributed by the authorities to the various districts. Giresun is home to a large number of female migrants from Afghanistan. These women now also attend courses at Giresun Lisesi. Throughout the project, 4 transnational project meetings took place using the existing capacities and resources to develop best practice exchange plans and to build a network with the partner organizations involved in this project. The main objective of our activities was to exchange good practices between project partners to develop new ideas, methods and programs to help Afghan migrants enter the European labor market. In the second year, three workshops have been held to develop methods and ideas to help Afghan migrant women developing self-determined lifestyle strategies, especially in the workplace. In addition to the "WhatsApp group" for short quick discussions, we have discovered the "Doodlen". A very successful technical instrument has proved to be "Trello". Here, texts and presentations could be uploaded, edited and structured by all. In all four states, we discussed with Afghan migrant women living there. advisa and Hamkari staffs are fluent in Afghani languages. Therefore, it made our discussions possible. We have seen on the first step for integrating Afghan women into the labor market is to take responsibility for themselves. Therefore, we see several internships in different companies an important tool for integration into the EU labor market. Through our work in the project, the intercultural competence of the participants as well as the openness for processes related to the work in the field of Afghan women in Europe has been strengthened. Here, the topics were sometimes hotly discussed among participants. The established network of internal and external partners was also used to discuss opportunities for Afghan women migrants and to promote the dissemination of results. The existing network will remain stable and active after the project is completed. Other projects can also benefit in the long run from the project results achieved and the nature of the project. To do this, we are setting up AFEC as the European umbrella organization for European clubs with a focus on Afghanistan.