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Towards the Autonomy of UFM (Unaccompanied Foreign Minors)

2021-1-IT01-KA210-VET-0000328892021Small-scale partnerships in vocational education and trainingfinalizedGood practice
Countries: IT|BG · Grant: €30,000
Social assistance and welfareOvercoming skills mismatch and addressing the needs of the labour marketDevelopment of training courses

Objectives

The main objectives that the project wanted to achive and achieved are: Updating skills and competences of Intercultural mediators and social operators according to the real needs of UFMs for their social inclusion Development, assessment and evaluation tools for piloting training and practice, in order to ensure its effective compliance to the identified needs and expectations Raising awareness among policy makers, stakeholders and all those involved in social inclusion of UFMs issues of the necessity for the systematic tailored trained to ensure effective support from the intercultural mediators and social operators to UFMs • To provide the groundwork for enhanced sustainability of future UFMs social inclusion Development of a tailored training methodology and learning toolkit to foster the skills and competences updating of social assistants and intercultural mediators Empowering the capacity and ability of the social assistants and intercultural mediators to work and interact in an efficient way with the UFMs Raising the level of awareness of the UFM on the relevance and importance of their labour, civic and social inclusion Empowering the capacity of the beneficiary organization to work at international level

Background

The project aimed to respond to the current needs of updating the skills and competences of the social assistants and intercultural mediators dealing and interacting everyday with the UFMs. The challenges that currently these professionals face are increasing due to different contexts, barriers and obstacles that they encounter in the process of supporting the UFMs for their social, civic and labour integration. This situation is constantly changing with new and different challenges to which the social assistants and intercultural mediators must be prepared in order to answer in the most appropriate way, ensuring an efficient and effective support to the UFM to overcome the tragic situations from where they are coming from and to facilitate their process of social and civic inclusion. Thus requires a multiply and integrated approaches, based on the sharing of knowledge and expertise of different actors that can bring concrete added values, as the cooperativa arti / mestieri, with its operative and practical experience in the field, and the SWUNR University, with its academic and theoretical knowledge and scientific background, together with its different cultural view of the topic faced.

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