PROfessionalize the actors training and accompanying migrants and refugees in their social and profesionnal INTegration Erasmus Project

Project Title

PROfessionalize the actors training and accompanying migrants and refugees in their social and profesionnal INTegration

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

The PROFINT project was carried out by four organizations working with persons remote from employment in France, Italy and Sweden. When in 2015 these countries were faced with a massive influx of migrants, these four organizations created programs and / or adapted their programs to meet the urgent accompaniment needs of new arrivals on their territory. . Following an exchange of experiences in 2018, they jointly designed the PROFINT project.
THEIR GOAL was to help those concerned with the integration of refugees and migrants to provide them an effective support. They were particularly concerned by two issues: Knowing how to meet all the learning needs of beneficiaries and fostering effective coordination of the various actions and initiatives carried out to meet these needs.
THEIR CONCRETE OBJECTIVE was to produce a set of resources that could be used in different contexts by professionals, individually or in groups, to improve their practices for accompanying migrants and refugees.

The partners have relied on their solid operational experience and complementary expertise:
– The MISSION LOCALE DE VILLEURBANNE in France has proven skills in supporting young adults excluded from employment by helping them build their professional project and guiding them towards vocational training and employment.
– MCG SOC. COOP. is a training organization operating in Sicily and Sardinia, expert in educational engineering and in supporting the learning process of people in social and professional integration.
– TIKITUT COMMUNITY BASED TOURISM conducts participatory tourism activities in underprivileged peri-urban neighborhoods in Sweden and harnesses the potential of this activity and of its environment to support the social, cultural and professional integration of newcomers in these neighborhoods.
– SOCIALINNOVATION is a French one-person agency for project engineering and support, mainly targeted on issues regarding socio-professional integration of people remote from employment.

In a first phase of the project, the partners analyzed in depth their device and their accompaniment processes for migrants and refugees. They enriched their analyzes through interviews with their beneficiaries and other integration actors in their territory and the investigation of good European practices. On this basis, they identified the SUCCESS FACTORS of their accompaniment activity and built THE PROFINT MODEL, a practical framework for action and professionalization.
In a second phase, the partners developed a TRAINING KIT to appropriate the PROFINT model: they defined the skills targeted by the recommendations of the PROFINT model, they reflected on the most suitable methods to promote the development of these skills, and built the practical supports of training modules. They tested these training modules with their teams. They experimented in their respective context, improvements in practices and tools resulting from these tests and produced a documentation of the progress and impacts of these experiments.
In the last phase of the project, the partners objectified the professionalization process in loops (Analysis of practices / experimentation <–> Formalization) which involved their teams and their organizations during the project and defined the conditions for transferring this experience, with a formative and professionalizing perspective. They completed, refined and defined how to articulate the different “tools” produced during the project, on an online platform.

The PROFINT PLATFORM offers:
– RESOURCES (cases, tools, good practices) linked to the PROFINT model, presented and articulated in such a way as to put users of the platform in a professional approach.
– A TRAINING that can be followed online by professionals, offering at the same time all the supports necessary for the organization of a face-to-face training adapted to the context of the participants.

The PROFINT project has resulted in a tangible way in:
– An INCREASE IN SKILLS and INNOVATION CAPACITY of the PROFINT ORGANIZATIONS and of their TEAMS to support migrants and refugees, and a VISIBILITY of these skills to their partners
– The appropriation of the PROFINT model and an understanding of the commitment and role of the PROFINT partners by the external actors who participated in the project
– An improvement in the prospects for integration of the migrants and refugees involved in some project activities.

The benefit of the PROFINT platform is the professionalization opportunity given to its users to better support the integration of migrants and refugees.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 237025,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

MISSION LOCALE DE VILLEURBANNE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• socialinnovation
• Flu, Förening för lokal utveckling (Tikitut community-based toursim)
• MCG MANAGER CONSULTING GROUP SOC. COOP.