VAlorising Migrants’ experience to increase their Occupational Skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

VAlorising Migrants’ experience to increase their Occupational Skills

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Integration of refugees; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Supporting the efforts of EU member states to help integrate migrants and refugees into Europe’s education systems and ensure their skills development is an urgent and demanding task. The project Valorising Migrants’ experience to increase their Occupational Skills (VAMOS) aims to tackle this existing challenge in all EU countries by valorising migrants’ own experience to act as recognized professionals in Migrants’ labour and social inclusion.
Therefore, VAMOS, will achieve a double aim: to enhance labour integration of experienced migrants and to improve the social and labour integration of newcomers.
VAMOS consortium, led by Asociacion Horuelo (Spain), is made up of 8 organizations from Greece, Italy, UK and Spain that have a long experience in training and inclusion initiatives with Migrant population. Indeed, four of them have worked in a project called Refugees and Migrants Inclusion Toolkit – REMINT (2017-1-IT01-KA202-006177) that inspired this proposal.

The main outcomes to be developed along the 32 months project duration are:
– IO1. Professional profile of the Expert in Migrants’ Labour and Social Inclusion.
– IO2. Assessment tool on key competencies for Migrants’ Labour and Social Inclusion.
– IO3. Training course. Expert in Migrants’ Labour and Social Inclusion.
– IO4. Guidelines for Newcomers from Migration Experiences.
Other results related to the main Intellectual outputs will be:
– VAMOS network.
– Guidelines for facilitators.
– A repository of Learning materials.
VAMOS partnership will put special efforts to dissemination of project results, quality assurance and evaluation as they will be key factors to achieve the project goals and spread the results among other relevant stakeholders at national and international level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 299841 Eur

Project Coordinator

Horuelo & Country: ES

Project Partners

• KEKAPER-REGION OF CRETE-LIFELONG LEARNING, EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT-DEVELOPMENT DIRECTION RETHYMNO REGIONAL UNIT-REGION OF CRETE
• Creative Learning Programmes Ltd
• Cepiss Società cooperativa sociale onlus
• European Education & Learning Institute
• Refuweegee
• Centro Machiavelli S.r.l.
• INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING AND MOBILITY AGENCY SOCIEDAD DE RESPONSABILIDAD LIMITADA