Refugees Empowerment through VET in an incLUsive Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Refugees Empowerment through VET in an incLUsive Europe

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Integration of refugees; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

The REVALUE project realized a set of tools and methodologies that aim to support refugees and asylum-seekers in finding new labour and inclusion opportunities, thanks to the recognition of their already existing skills and competences and their integration with a new set of tailor-made knowledge that could help them in building up a job career in their new country. Moreover, REVALUE developed a holistic strategy to empower professionals working in the support to newly arrived refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants, by delivering them new tools for assessing their skills and providing new job-related competences, on the basis of a comprehensive and inclusive approach.

Composed by a balanced set of VET/employment services providers and migrants’ support organizations from Italy, Hungary, France, United Kingdom and Germany, the REVALUE consortium has been able to operate on the basis of a consistent, well-guided and harmonically structured effort, aimed at creating a fuitful cross-breeding of influences and guaranteeing the constant sharing of all output results. The good work accomplished by all partners made it possible to work coherently to what was planned at the beginning of the project, without the need of modifying any of the roles and tasks that were originally planned.

As foreseen in the original application, project partners have realized the following outputs:
– A toolkit for the assessment of migrants’ and refugees’ skills (IO1 – RESTART), tested on 201 refugees/asylum-seekers. RESTART will support the valorization of refugees/subsidiary protection holders/asylum seekers, helping them in acquiring new job opportunities thanks to the delivery of personalized CVs/Career Plans.
– Two tailor-made VET/specialization Courses (IO3 – “Migrant Service Provider” and IO4 – “Social Enterprise Manager” Curriculum programmes, validated through the IO5 – Toolkit for the Validation and Quality Assurance of the Curricula), that will allow refugees/ subsidiary protection holders/asylum seekers to acquire new highly qualifying skills. The Courses, tested on 68 users, consist of a Course Plan, a Didactic Manual and a set of training materials.
– A methodology for the creation and implementation of work-based laboratories (IO6), that have been tested and have provided an attestation for 46 users. WBLabs will provide hands-on job-related experience to refugees/subsidiary protection holders/asylum seekers, developing a more solid knowledge of the functioning of a work environment in the new country.
– The Report “Who Migrates to Europe” (IO2), developed using the data and information collected in the Skills’ Assessment process and addressed to all stakeholders (from policy-makers to organizations that deliver support to migrants), in order to support the definition of new strategic approaches to social integration

A particularly relevant testing activity has allowed partners to measure constantly the effectiveness and providing feedback collected directly on the field to improve the effectiveness of all tools developed during the project. In each of the partner countries, more than 50 individuals have taken part to the piloting of the IO1, for a total of 201 users all over Europe who have received a CV/portfolio delivered through the Revalue methodology. 68 users tested the two VET courses of REVALUE, while 46 users completed the WBL pathway, obtaining a certificate that will enrich their personal CV.

REVALUE has exerted a consistent impact on the partner organizations that have cooperated for its implementation and realization. The opera of cross-fertilization of knowledge, experiences and expertise that took place since the beginning of the project, has been activated and enforced thanks to the strict collaboration and cooperation between all participants. Both on a national and on a transnational level, it has been possible to share fruitfully technical and scientific competences, contributing to increasing the quality of the product and guaranteeing the durable value of the REVALUE outputs for the years to come.

All the outputs and results of REVALUE will be access-free for everybody, without any limitation. The decision to translate all contents into all the partner languages was meant to allow the maximum exploitability of the contents, without limiting any of the output to the English version and guaranteeing the wider adoption of the tools. Their content has been widely publicized through the dissemination opera made by the members of the Consortium. In particular, the decision to focus on the realization of a wide and comprehensive dissemination strategy was directly connected to the willingness to make them available to a wide audience of users, students, VET providers, migrants’ support organizations, institutions and authorities active in the policy-makers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 329880 Eur

Project Coordinator

E.RI.FO.-ENTE DI RICERCA E FORMAZIONE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• RINOVA LIMITED
• HALBA BENEDICTE
• PROGRAMMA INTEGRA SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE
• ASHLEY COMMUNITY & HOUSING LTD
• GSUB – GESELLSCHAFT FUR SOZIALE UNTERNEHMENSBERATUNG MBH
• FRANCAIS POUR L’INSERTION SOCIALE ET PROFESSIONNELLE EN EUROPE
• Jovokerek Alapitvany