The project is focused on adult education and lifelong learning excluding discrimination barriers and obstacles through educational and training provision. The importance on creating, developing and enhancing knowledge, skills, competencies and capacity to disadvantaged and marginalized groups such as migrants the main goal of the project. The project targets migrant entrepreneurial capacity building targeting migrants and refugees that wish to start up a business. Additionally, the project involves migrant entrepreneurs that have enstrablished a business which is at stake of bankruptcy having their business running for three years. Inspired and based on the EASME programme "Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs" as one of the most popular and successful initiatives of the European Union, experienced entrepreneurs are considered those who already run their business for more than three years. Prior to this, entrepreneurial initiatives are considered to be at an early stage and in potential need for support. Finally, stakeholders and policy makers are to be involved in this project too as an indirect target group since the rapidly evolving entrepreneurial world in alliance with the project direct target groups are correlated to a great extent. The present project focuses on assessing the existing skills and capacities of these target groups providing a personalized training path that is based on their individual needs and learning "gaps" which need to be enhanced. Furthemore, personilized training paths based on preferences and personal assessment are to be provided. This innovative method of training is based on distance learning providing the opportunity of engagement through modular or part-time learning. The mentoring parameter is inserted so as to guide and provide added value to the enhancement and empowerment of the target group. The project will involve at least 140 participants in the above described activities. Migrants and refugees that wish to run a business, migrants that have established enterprises and stakeholders as well as policy makers regional authorities, municipalities, universities etc.) are among this target. The key point is that evaluation will be an ongoing process targeting at least 90% of satisfaction ensuring the high end and appropriateness of the expected results. The project revolves around four Intellectual Outputs with various sub actions to be undertaken. The project National Case Studies (invlolving 3 focus groups, legal entrepreneurial frameworks and the final guidebook among others), the certified training programme (IO2) with e learning training on modular on part time provision to the tailored and customized needs, the IO3 Career Kit empowering the target groups and the Online Social Tool working as an interactive space as well as hosting all outputs and working as a powerful training tool are the main outcomes of the project. The interactive character of the project promotes and invites all interested parties from the target group to explore and benefit from the FAMET results. It is expected that the impact of the project will be significant at all levels. Local, regional and national levels will be impacted by the dissemination activities performed by partners in their regions and countries. European and International level will be impacted by collaborative or organizational actions too.
The FAMET project targets the employability needs of migrants. It fosters the migrant entrepreneurial spirit via education and training. The project addresses marginalized and discriminated individuals by providing equal rights for education and development. The project objectives are: - to create and awaken skills and competencies of adult migrants by self-assessment and self-awareness tools and customized learning paths based on each individual's needs, - to enhance the competencies of adult migrants, - to motivate and empower the target group and interested parties into entrepreneurship and employment, - to develop training that is uniquely tailored to the needs of adult migrants to support their development of competencies and skills, - to design sustainable and user-friendly tools, - to disseminate the results in order to reach as many adult migrants as possible throughout the European Union. The primary target groups are: - adult migrants who wish to set up a business, - adult migrants already running a business, - policy makers,associations,employment centres,centres working with migrants,regional authorities, and voluntary organizations, - learners from disadvantaged groups, especially those facing linguistic barriers.
The project focuses on adult education provision and the empowerment of migrants in terms of skills, competences and knowledge. Occupation and employability can motivate and empower migrants into being socially included while being active parts of the society. Research from the project indicates that the education level of a large portion of migrants and refugees in the partner countries could be characterized between medium and low, and the target group of the project is threatened to marginalization. One implication of the low level of education of majority of the migrant/refugee population is their low earning power as compared to average citizens of those countries. The positive side is that some migrants are entrepreneurs. However, the success rate of migrant entrepreneurship in the five countries are modest. There are indications from Greece that the long-term sustainability of businesses owned by migrants is a problem. The average life span of some immigrant entrepreneurs seems to be about 5 years. In the Danish country study, a similar observation was recorded from a study on the economic profitability and long-term sustainability of businesses owned by a select group of migrants.