To promote social inclusion of people with a migrant background into their host countries’ societies via the labour market in the HORECA sector, using a Universal Design for Learning. To increase third-country nationals’ hard and soft skills, necessary to access the labour market in the HORECA sector. To create learning materials for third country nationals related to cooking practices and intercultural skills (soft skills and language skills). To create learning materials for adult educators, to raise awareness about cultural diversity, and self-reflection related to prejudices towards third country nationals. To create self-assessment tools to check the acquired knowledge for the culinary sector and promote the use of European tools (such as Europass and especially the EU Multilingual Skills Profiling Tool for Third Country Nationals) for the validation of competencies to facilitate their inclusion in the labour market.
Europe has faced the most serious migration challenge since the end of World War II. As of January 1st 2019, 21.8 million people (4.9%) of the 446.8 million people living in the European Union, were not EU-27 citizens. There has been an increase in the political use of migration as a negative aspect in an international context. Some are using it as a political weapon, to undermine democracy and inclusive participation, appealing to the understandable fear of communities at the rapid pace of change and the growing uncertainty of our times. We believe that the best way to stop these non-solidarity movements is to integrate these new members in our shared communities. One of the problems preventing the integration of low-skilled adults into the labour market is their lack of adequate training. The integration of people with a migrant background into the professional sphere remains a major challenge in Europe. Finding long-term employment is especially difficult for these people since they face language barriers, they do not have access to quality labour market information, and they do not have access to quality labour market information, and they often struggle to obtain their recognised professional qualifications.