Entrepreneurship Guide for Immigrants and Refugees is an instrument to support and guide people with a migrant background, especially refugees, to understand their competencies and the chances to initiate their own business in the host country. Moving from the need to find employment, several migrants, refugees and asylum seekers accept to start new jobs covered working positions lower than their skills. In different cases, they don't find a job at all because they don't know how to move inside the labour market.
Refugees are more likely to start new businesses, but they face significant barriers to success. Supporting entrepreneurship among migrants and refugees is an effective way to include them in local economies. Newcomer entrepreneurs are more likely than natives to start a new business in almost all OECD countries, but the survival rate of their companies is lower than for natives. The main ones are their legal status, lack of language skills, limited entrepreneurial skills and poor knowledge of the local context. And finally, there are still great difficulties in accessing finance. Hence, their needs differ from the needs of entrepreneurs born in the host country and vary significantly based on the development stage of the ventur Project Re-Start is designed to answer essential questions of refugees wanting to embark upon opening their own business. A comprehensive Manual and Website based on extensive research will be developed in the course of the project to give information and guidance to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers and support for operators who work with them. 1. NEEDS OF OPERATORS and IMMIGRANTS: 2. JOB MARKET 3. MAPPING OF ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCIES 4. NATIONAL RULES AND REGULATIONS 5. FUNDING 6. SYSTEMATISATION: