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Support the PROfessional Integration of Migrants in Europe

2017-1-FR01-KA202-0374842017Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and trainingfinalized
Countries: FR|DE|SE|IT · Grant: €57,270.08
Inclusion - equityIntegration of refugeesEnterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project summary

The INSERT PRO MIGRANTS project is part of a Europe in crisis, confronted with a migratory influx that requires a change in policies in order to facilitate the reception and social inclusion of migrants. This crisis is today a real challenge for all actors for training, professional integration and employment. By 2015, EU countries had reached their highest level ever, with almost 1.26 million registered asylum seekers. In comparison, by 2014, some 562,000 first asylum applications had been counted. In 2015, France was the third most requested EU country by refugees with 80,075 applications for international protection filed, behind Germany (441,800) and Sweden (156,100). While the number of asylum applications has increased in France (+ 23.6% compared to 2014), its growth remains much lower than that of its neighbors: + 175.4% for Germany and + 100.3% For Sweden. The increase in the number of asylum seekers in France over the first eight months of 2016 amounts to more than 20%. The INSERT PRO MIGRANTS project is aimed at the public of migrants and, above all, the refugees. It aims to improve their professional integration and / or their access to entrepreneurship in Europe. GENERAL OBJECTIVES : - Enhancing migratory pathways in the professional integration of migrants in Europe - Promote the professional insertion of migrants in partner countries - Observe new professional integration schemes for migrants (with multistakeholders such as actors in education, training, business, etc.) - Adapt, model and transfer, where appropriate, actions and / or programs in the host countries SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES : - Develop a matrix of engineering of reception and professional integration of migrants thanks to the European devices visited - Identify good practices and bring them together in a vademecum PROJECT ACTIVITIES: - 4 short-term staff training events for the 4 partnership teams with a program aiming at observing reception and integration schemes in the partner countries (institutional + communities + associations + companies) The entrepreneur - 3 transnational meetings to ensure the follow-up of the project in all its aspects, including the creation of tools EXPECTED RESULTS : - Creation of a platform for pooling and exchanging good practices INSERT PRO MIGRANTS for partners and institutions. - Formalization of a guide to good practice - Specific training engineer matrix on the professional integration of migrants at European level IMPACTS: - Effective development of pprofessional relations between European partners - Transfer of valuable reception and integration practices in the employment of migrants in the partner countries - Experimentation of new devices related to the activities of the partnership - Rise in the competencies of the actors of the accompaniment of migrants - Decompartmentalization of the different structures and phases of reception of migrants allowing their social and professional integration This project should reach a minimum of 2000 people via social networks, professional and institutional networks

Final report summary

Initiated in 2017 in a Europe facing increasing migratory flows, the INSERT PRO MIGRANTS project aimed to enhance migratory routes in an approach of inclusion in the host society and its professional integration. The project was carried out with the involvement of the four partner countries: FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, SWEDEN. The evolution of the project was confronted with a European policy in motion, with changes made particularly in France and Italy. The project addressed the migrant public, with particular emphasis on women, young people (including unaccompanied minors), people with disabilities. It aimed at improving overall support for beneficiaries with a view to sustainable integration in the host society. The general and specific objectives pursued throughout the project were to: - Promote migration pathway in the professional integration of migrants in Europe - Observe and exchange around new engineering of migrants' professional integration in order to identify transferable practices and that way facilitate the professional integration of migrants - Identify and capitalize on best practices to enable sharing experience beyond participants - Observe and compare schemes aimed at "global" support for beneficiaries (language training, social support, vocational training, employment and business relations) The project, in its implementation, involved a diversity of actors divided into three target groups: - expert actors involved in the field of training and professional integration of migrants (project manager / training engineer, coordinators, trainers, psychologists, etc.). This first group constituted the direct actors of the project and the participants in the mobilities. - actors indirectly associated with the project, particularly in the context of the organization of joint events (institutions, associations, training organizations, companies, etc.) - migrant actors through the numerous testimonies that brought elements of analysis and reflection in the framework of the evolution of the project. The mobilization, the diversity and the wealth of the direct and indirect actors in the project have allowed networking and the emergence of new perspectives, which contribute to the project's impacts. Four events were carried out supported by the organization as well as three transnational meetings to ensure the operational follow-up of the project. The activities proposed during the events contributed to: - to observe and compare training schemes that promote the reception and accompaniment of migrants, with particular emphasis on a comprehensive support approach - identify good practices and the feasibility of transferring the approach to the partner country - observe and share teaching methods in the context of learning the host language The activities proposed did not allow to observe devices integrating in company with the exception of devices developed in Germany (the EDEKA experiment) and in Sweden (the support system for the creation of a company). As part of its implementation, a resource pooling platform was opened via dropbox and shared with partner countries. To highlight the best practices of each partner, 23 fact sheets have been completed to date and will be shared in a publication planned for March 2020. In terms of impacts on organizations, we see today as examples: - a better knowledge of new training schemes integrating new training models (teaching methods, integration of social and cultural aspects, business relations, learning, etc.). - the increase in skills of the participants, their professionalization, the perspective of their daily practice and thus the development of a recognized and shared expertise - a better understanding of the political issues at local level but also at European level - the development of numerous partnerships at local, national and European level - valuing the expertise of partner structures with stakeholders - a better understanding of the needs of target audiences - knowledge of new pedagogical and didactic approaches to teaching a foreign language New prospects for future migrant projects were initiated at the end of the project. The project had a positive impact and nearly 11,000 people benefited from the project activities through multiple dissemination activities undertaken by the project partners and which will continue beyond the project.

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