Guidelines for the work inclusion of the refugees and the asylum seekers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Guidelines for the work inclusion of the refugees and the asylum seekers

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

The year 2015 ended with a record number of people forced to flee from their country because of war, famine and poverty: according to the UNO’ High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the refugees in the world are more than 60 millions. In 2015, according to Frontex data, the illegal entries in Europe were more than 1.5 million, five times more than the 280,000 in 2014.The migration crisis in the Mediterranean has put the spotlight on immediate needs, but also highlighted many of the structural limits of the EU’s migration policy and the instruments at its disposal. The EU Directives n. 2013/33/EU and n. 2013/32/EU on the immigration politics, introduced important new features including the easier entry into the labor market, the duration of the Residence Permit, new system of first and second reception, the reduction of the timing for the examination procedure of the asylum application. Nevertheless, the access to the working conditions varied from state to state and there were no homogeneous measures of intervention and social integration, although last year the reception’s theme entered in the policy Agenda, pushing national governments to intervene. In May 2015, the European Commission stresses the need to reduce the causes of irregular migration and to establish a system of redistribution in the EU countries (Agenda Juncker of the 05.13.2015); Italy, however, and the partner countries were among the most exposed to migratory flows and continued to deal with the difficulty of finding lasting solutions in the field of asylum. The project aims to photograph the state of the reception system of refugees in Europe (supported by the EU Regulation 516/2014) and to provide a system for the sharing of effective practice, observed and produced by the partnership. The project aimed to develop innovative methodologies and tools to enable European practitioners, who carry out services for the social and economic inclusion of asylum seekers, to work effectively with them. The project defined the competence profile of the practitioner working with refugees, the Divise for the validation of skills acquired in formal, non-formal and informal contexts, in connection with ECVET principles, and produced an OER, in addition to the Report of best practices that can be use for the social and work inclusion of refugees, the Common System of Procedures for the recognition of qualifications and a report of training needs analysis. Two training courses, face to face and in e-learning, have been described and tested. It produced Guidelines to improve the practices of social and work inclusion of refugees. The project consortium is initially composed by 8 organizations from 6 EU countries that assist refugees and asylum seekers in different ways with reception, guidance and training activities and job placement: 2 training and employment agencies, 1 public authority which manages local network of refugees’ reception, 2 non-profit organizations that deal with reception services and social and work integration of migrants, 3 private organizations that deal with research and innovative teaching. After the end of the project, the public authority, for administrative problems, had to left the project, but it has been not a probelm for the implementation of activities and for the achievement of project goals. The Partnership promoted the use, test and implementation of ECVET system by applying it to the qualification of the practitioners working with refugees. The organizations work with refugees in different countries and in different settings; ECVET has beeen the common term of reference (a common language) to describe what they do and standardize their training and assessment methodologies for practitioners working with refugees. The Guidelines for the inclusion of refugees, validated by the consortium, represented the common term of reference to standardize the methodologies and techniques of social and work inclusion of refugees.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 404874,64 Eur

Project Coordinator

studio risorse s.r.l. & Country: IT

Project Partners

• UAB EU TRADE
• Il Sicomoro Soc. Coop. Soc.
• Creative Learning Programmes Ltd
• INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING AND MOBILITY AGENCY SOCIEDAD DE RESPONSABILIDAD LIMITADA
• European Education & Learning Institute
• Gemeinsam leben und lernen in Europa e.V.