A large part of European countries is experiencing or will experience migration related to labour needs, but also to population displacement. Migration crisis in Europe started in 2010 and saw further growth in 2015, which that year went up to more than one million migrants in Europe (source: International Organization for Migrants). Meanwhile, we can only acknowledge the relative failure of integration of migrant populations: host countries face difficulties in welcoming and integrating these new citizens. Migrants face an unemployment rate sometimes exceeding 30% and perform tasks that local people did not want to take over (3D rule: dirty, difficult and degrading jobs). Those same people, although aware of a labour deficit, will not foster migrant recruitment by companies. Based on these findings, the consortium of project "Promoting active inclusion in Europe" ("Be in Europe") composed of 6 partners from 6 countries, aims to accompany migration dynamics while developing and promoting alternative learning device for migrant integration within society and labour market of the host countries. The goal is to participate in building a trans -cultural and tolerant Europe that creates wealth for all and by all. The project is designed for, on the one hand, migrants and supporting organizations promoting their social and cultural integration and, on the other hand, companies and organizations involved in professional integration. Thus, project "Promoting Active Inclusion in Europe" aims to: - the creation of a toolkit for cultural decoding that will end in a state of the art and will focus more specifically on the target groups’ needs in order to develop tailored learning devices; - the development and implementation of learning devices aimed at: i. improving psychosocial skills for migrants (problem solving; to make decisions; to communicate effectively; to manage stress, emotions ...); ii. mediation and intercultural competences for companies, particularly in the areas of services to individuals, services to companies, construction & public works, trade and agriculture; iii. support for creation of activity / entrepreneurship; - the establishment of conditions for sustainability of the devices by closely associating direct beneficiaries all along the project and by using the collaborative platform "Be in Europe". This platform will have a double function: it will host all project outputs and ease networking amongst the different actors, and will also be the technical basement for all activities to be developed. Project "Be in Europe" will be punctuated by various communication actions that will contribute to a wider use and appropriation of the results and that will inscribe the action over time.
If the migration crisis of the 2010s highlighted the difficulties in receiving and integrating people with a migrant background in Europe, the health crisis linked to the COVID-19 will exacerbate the needs of the 164 million migrant workers in the world who are severely and permanently affected by this pandemic. Therefore, many European countries have experienced and will experience migratory flows linked to labour needs but also to population displacement. The project "Promoting Active Inclusion in Europe" - Be in Europe aimed at the social and cultural integration of migrants on the one hand, and at their professional integration, on the other hand. Consortium Be in Europe, composed of 6 partners from 6 European countries, accompanied the migration dynamics by developing and promoting training contents and activities aimed at favouring migrants’ integration into the host countries society and labour market. The aim was to participate in the construction of a transcultural and tolerant Europe that creates wealth for all and by all. To this end, over a period of 27 months, project partners developed three alternative learning schemes for (i) the improvement of migrants' psychosocial skills, (ii) mediation and intercultural skills for businesses and (iii) support for business creation/entrepreneurship. In addition, they worked on the creation of the Be in Europe collaborative platform, which is both the showcase of the project (hosting of deliverables) and promotes networking between different actors, particularly around the activity cliché: exchange of experience in order to overcome prejudices and stereotypes. A total of 142 participants took part in the 19 training sessions organised in the partnership territories, bringing together (representatives of) adult migrants, pupils, students, teachers (FEP) and (representatives of) companies, business creation networks, professional organisations, Employment Office, Trade unions, etc. Sessions were carried out face-to-face and/or virtually, in spite of the pandemic, thus reflecting a real motivation and a real need on the part of all the players. The alternative methodology applied favoured the involvement of the participants and the conditions for the sustainability of the measures, since project direct beneficiaries were closely involved in the creation of content throughout the process: the aim was to work with and for them. Be in Europe project was punctuated by various dissemination events which contributed to a wider use and appropriation of the results and to the inclusion of the action in time. Thus, 312 people took an active part in these events which took place in Bulgaria, Belgium, France, Greece, Italy and Portugal, sometimes in person, sometimes online, sometimes simultaneously. All the project outcomes are freely downloadable from Be in Europe website in the 6 languages of the partnership: https://www.beineurope.eu/.