Let’s Destroy Barriers for Vocational Inclusion of Immigrants Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s Destroy Barriers for Vocational Inclusion of Immigrants

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Integration of refugees; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The management of refugee crisis is one of the most challenging problems of EU and some other countries due to its complex social, political and economic stages. This process requires rapid and effective steps to form necessary conditions for the integration of immigrants into society. In Turkey, more than 4 million refugees live in Turkey and five thousands of them accommodates in Düzce. One of the most fundamental measures to be taken for complete and durable integration is the inclusion of immigrants into labor market and ultimately economic welfare of these people. In order to learn, search, socialize, develop their abilities and knowledge for new job opportunities, get vocational educations and successfully carry out the job they find; the language barriers in front of a healthier and faster integration process have to destroyed. However, most of these people can’t get a working permission. Although a definite part can achieve a faster and easier inclusion into labor market after destroying language barriers, the other part that form the bigger part can’t work due to not being able to get a work permission requiring a long process or mostly results in as negatively. Therefore, these people have to be a seasonal worker in agriculture and livestock sector or being an employer. At this point, there is a big need to develop the entrepreneurship skill of the immigrants. Within the project, we developed language modules that can carry the beneficiaries from A1 to A2 level, shared these modules via a platform, created a practical handbook for urgent help in daily situations with daily structures and dialogues and developed a comprehensive entrepreneurship training module. The outputs were designed with four related EU partner to get more innovative and international results that are suitable for the target group needs and profiles. All the good practices, experiences and innovations in partner countries was searched, the outputs were developed, then the project outputs were disseminated with local and international events. With better communication abilities, immigrants can integrate into the city they live, local people can communicate with these people more easily and all these outcomes provide a more peaceful society. With better language and entrepreneurship skills, they can now look for job opportunities, include in vocational courses and effectively work in worklife. With developed entrepreneurship skills they can be more active, equipped and create new job opportunities for themselves and maybe for other local people. These effects can be observed in all partner countries and with dissemination activities the project outputs and effects were shared at international and EU level. During dissemination and evaluation activities, it was obvious that the outputs will be effective and used by many related organizations and immigrants in order to develop their langauge and entrepreneurship skills.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 142124,45 Eur

Project Coordinator

T.C.Duzce Valiligi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• KOSGEB-KUCUK VE ORTA OLCEKLI ISLETMELERI GELISTIRME VE DESTEKLEME IDARESI BASKANLIGI
• INSTITUT FUR INTERDISZIPLINARE BILDUNG (IIB)
• LUETEC
• DUZCE IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• GLAFKA s.r.o.
• Instituto para el fomento del desarrollo y la formación S.L