Support the PROfessional Integration of Migrants in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Support the PROfessional Integration of Migrants in 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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Integration of refugees; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

Initiated in 2017 in a Europe facing increasing migratory flows, the INSERT PRO MIGRANTS project aimed to enhance migratory routes in an approach of inclusion in the host society and its professional integration. The project was carried out with the involvement of the four partner countries: FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, SWEDEN. The evolution of the project was confronted with a European policy in motion, with changes made particularly in France and Italy.

The project addressed the migrant public, with particular emphasis on women, young people (including unaccompanied minors), people with disabilities. It aimed at improving overall support for beneficiaries with a view to sustainable integration in the host society.
The general and specific objectives pursued throughout the project were to:
– Promote migration pathway in the professional integration of migrants in Europe
– Observe and exchange around new engineering of migrants’ professional integration in order to identify transferable practices and that way facilitate the professional integration of migrants
– Identify and capitalize on best practices to enable sharing experience beyond participants
– Observe and compare schemes aimed at “global” support for beneficiaries (language training, social support, vocational training, employment and business relations)

The project, in its implementation, involved a diversity of actors divided into three target groups:
– expert actors involved in the field of training and professional integration of migrants (project manager / training engineer, coordinators, trainers, psychologists, etc.). This first group constituted the direct actors of the project and the participants in the mobilities.
– actors indirectly associated with the project, particularly in the context of the organization of joint events (institutions, associations, training organizations, companies, etc.)
– migrant actors through the numerous testimonies that brought elements of analysis and reflection in the framework of the evolution of the project.
The mobilization, the diversity and the wealth of the direct and indirect actors in the project have allowed networking and the emergence of new perspectives, which contribute to the project’s impacts.
Four events were carried out supported by the organization as well as three transnational meetings to ensure the operational follow-up of the project. The activities proposed during the events contributed to:
– to observe and compare training schemes that promote the reception and accompaniment of migrants, with particular emphasis on a comprehensive support approach
– identify good practices and the feasibility of transferring the approach to the partner country
– observe and share teaching methods in the context of learning the host language
The activities proposed did not allow to observe devices integrating in company with the exception of devices developed in Germany (the EDEKA experiment) and in Sweden (the support system for the creation of a company).
As part of its implementation, a resource pooling platform was opened via dropbox and shared with partner countries.
To highlight the best practices of each partner, 23 fact sheets have been completed to date and will be shared in a publication planned for March 2020.
In terms of impacts on organizations, we see today as examples:
– a better knowledge of new training schemes integrating new training models (teaching methods, integration of social and cultural aspects, business relations, learning, etc.).
– the increase in skills of the participants, their professionalization, the perspective of their daily practice and thus the development of a recognized and shared expertise
– a better understanding of the political issues at local level but also at European level
– the development of numerous partnerships at local, national and European level
– valuing the expertise of partner structures with stakeholders
– a better understanding of the needs of target audiences
– knowledge of new pedagogical and didactic approaches to teaching a foreign language

New prospects for future migrant projects were initiated at the end of the project.
The project had a positive impact and nearly 11,000 people benefited from the project activities through multiple dissemination activities undertaken by the project partners and which will continue beyond the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 57270,08 Eur

Project Coordinator

GIP FORMATION CONTINUE ET INSERTION PROFESSIONNELLE DE L ACADEMIE DE CRETEIL & Country: FR

Project Partners

• PROGRAMMA INTEGRA SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE
• FOLKUNIVERSITETET STIFTELSEN VID LUNDS UNIVERSITET
• ab ausblick hamburg gmbh
• Rectorat de l’académie de Créteil