The VRIN project is designed to achieve the following objectives; -To develop innovative approaches to facilitate access to basic services that can be adapted to, local contexts; improved access to comprehensive health care services, social security benefits for TCNs, as well as to services facilitating labour market integration, financial services, housing and helping to provide them with affordable accommodation based on their needs, -To provide the local communities, authorities, operators, stakeholders and training centers with a state-of-the-art tool which is aligned with the latest trends of digital evolution (VR and Gamified Environment), -To open a window to TCNs’ life-long learning, in order to facilitate their integration in society and the labour market, -To bring local and international stakeholders closer as a means of multiplying the project’s impact but also spreading its benefits, -To boost service providers and integration assistants’ capacity to deal with TCNs’ needs and different cultural background, thus boosting their intercultural skills, -To enhance both TCNs’ and integration actors’ digital skills towards a smoother adaptation in the 2nd digital era (or 4th Industrial Revolution).
The project ''VRIN:Virtual Reality for Migrants Social and Cultural Orientation and Inclusion'' is designed to provide innovative targeted training to both actors involved in Third Country Nationals' integration and TCNs themselves as a two-way method to enhance integration in local communities. This two- way method is selected given that integration does not only depend on TCNs’ willingness to adapt to the new context by acquiring key skills (Communication with the local authorities, useful/everyday vocabulary, knowledge of labour access, bureaucratic and financial procedures, housing and health system hints). This project also aimed on the capacity building of key professionals (Interpreters, cultural mediators and all type of integration assistants) working in this field. The management of the massive TCN influx of 2015-2016 has proven that it is not enough to just open borders, but also, to be ready to apply effective management after the settlement for TCNs, refugees, asylum seekers etc. Therefore, the VRIN project addressed the need for innovative training tools, beyond the mainstream and traditional ones, as a means of making the process of acquaintance with the local context during the two years of implementation.