Refugees Empowering Skills Together Erasmus Project

Project Title

Refugees Empowering Skills Together

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Integration of refugees; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

CONTEXT:
Around three million asylum seekers have been received in Europe in the last three years, as many as in the previous 20 years. An increase difficult to accept by most because it is difficult for them to find jobs and to integrate them so this has given origin to extremist political currents advocating Europe’s exit, border closure and exclusion that we have to try to solve.
On the other hand the needs of youth and in special those who are with fewer opportunities :
They are a sector of the population that sees no motivation in going on studying or working and if they work they are facing a world which offers few badly paid jobs to them and with a lack of economic perspective

REST aims at linking both target groups to try to solve the problems they face

If youth are included in programs to meet the needs of the community, such as the inclusion of refugees in society they can get a sense of ownership in the society they live and feel more integrated and motivated.

OBJECTIVES-ACTIVITIES-RESULTS:

Helping refugees to share their skills – crafts – with youth that will accompany them in a learning /sharing process of social and entrepreneurial support to facilitate the process of finding a job

Connecting both of them (youth and refugees) with companies – the job matching opportunities

Helping refugees with the support of the youth to create :
– an online e-commerce selling platform and mobile app – the talent pool of refugees and that will make VISIBLE the skills, services and knowledge refugees can offer to employers and society
– an OER compendium of best practices that facilitate the integration of refugees into the labour / social world
– an international network that will connect refugees – youth – employers – organizations – matching refugees- youngs with working – social needs
– an OER video pack that will contain the video CV of all participants to make their social involvement more visible

Developing 2 workshops that will offer the opportunity of :
– an intercultural exchange of youth-refugees lives and projects (cultural and social awareness of refugees needs)
– learning key tools on collective intelligence and intercultural competences
– receiving information about relevant methods to identify markets and their creative activities
– being associated with the creation of specific e-commerce platforms helping them to sell their offers online
– providing them with knowledge about basic entrepreneurial skills which will help them to open new doors for refugees and youth
– providing the basics about e-commerce skills to help the participants to know how to promote their services and crafts online
– providing them with the basic skills about how to create a mobile app that will be the window to the e-commerce portal of refugees

REST implements 2 previous EU projects : SIC and PEAL

The 5 partners of partnership for Youth REST, including among them an IT company, will address the following priorities :
1. Youth priority: promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship
2. Horizontal ones: social inclusion and open education resources and digital innovative practices

By :
– support integration policies
– fight stereotypes
– improve the level of key competencies and skills of young people with fewer opportunities
– promote participation in democratic life in Europe and the labor market, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion, and solidarity,
– foster quality improvements in youth work

PARTICIPANTS:
Teams composed by young refugees with skills in crafts or services, youth and mentors in order to promote peer to peer and coach support .

METHOD:
Flipped-CLIL methodology together with sociocratic communicative methodologies in a peer to peer coach context

IMPACT:
– remobilization, networking and enlarged communities of followers
– development of key competencies as identified in the project description
– identification and application of new job opportunities
– enlargement color palette of services of social organizations
– open minds and opportunities offering model reusable by social organizations taking up refugees in partner countries and beyond
– increase the integration process of participants offering them new international networks where their CVs and skills will be visible

On companies that can open their minds other opportunities skills that the participants can offer and that was not envisaged before

LONGER TERM BENEFITS:
REST will be disseminated through our media and 2 events this will allow participants to network to create a community of around 1000 followers, made up of youth with fewer opportunities, statutory refugees, asylum seekers, social and youth workers, public and private organizations working with refugees, potential employers and companies that will have access to the results of REST even after the project has finished and can open opportunities to the implementation of it.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 54590 Eur

Project Coordinator

Graphistes de l’Ombre & Country: FR

Project Partners

• MAERA – MANAGEMENT, ACCOUNTING AND EDUCATION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
• DANMAR COMPUTERS SP ZOO
• DRUSTVO ZA RAZVIJANJE PROSTOVOLJNEGA DELA NOVO MESTO
• Asociacion Pedagogica Stucom