ACTION – enhAnCe shorT-term employability Of immigraNts
Programme: Erasmus+ KA2: Strategic Partnership VET
Reference: 2020-1-DE02-KA202-007390
Start: 01/11/2020
End: 30/04/2023
ACTION project aims to identify relevant good practices in the field of immigrants’ employability, by designing an OER training programme that will tackle existing skill gaps of VET trainers and staff.
ACTION fosters not only social inclusion of immigrants, by improving their upskilling pathways, but also enhances the professional development of VET trainers and staff. As a result, ACTION offers a high-quality VET, which is not only inclusive but also modernized and diverse.
ACTION brings innovation and inclusive growth in VET sector, by also promotes collaboration of VET Institutions and training organizations, specialized in the field of immigrants’ training and employability.
- To promote inclusion and labour market integration of immigrant learners, through the design and delivery of trainings to VET educational Staff and Teachers, as well as to other stakeholders related to immigrants’ labour market integration.
- To offer support to teachers, tutors, staff in VET education and related stakeholders in enhancing their existing programmes and skillset.
- To attract more VET education providers and experts in immigrants’ labour market integration to the advantages (i.e. in terms of time savings) of using ACTION methodology for reducing immigrants inequality in the labour market.
- Analysis of existing Training Programmes for Immigrants’ employability
- Open Educational Resources for the training in VET education
- In class training material for the engagement of immigrant VET learners in the implementation of the new training programme, in the scope of helping them improving their skillset
- Peer learning on training programme VET teachers, trainers and administrative staff
Results
- Increase knowledge and capacity of VET trainers, teachers, staff and related stakeholders in immigrants’ labour market (needed skills and competences)
- Improvement of the existing teaching methodologies and skillset of trainers, teachers and staff in VET education in the area of immigrants’ labour market integration
- Elimination of current skill mismatches of immigrant learners, in view of being better integrated in European labour market
- Active stakeholders involvement from all relevant sectors and promotion of the cooperation among institutional (local and public Bodies) and individual (VET education teachers, learners, staff and learners) stakeholders in fostering immigrants’ labour market integration
- Higher awareness of the use and strengths of the new training programme, as well as of the importance of employability of disadvantaged groups, such as immigrant learners.
Co-Experts
- VET educators: tutors, trainers, teachers and administrative staff
- VET learners, low-skilled immigrants or people with migrant background who wish to enhance their current career opportunities
- Relevant stakeholders, such as NGOs, experts and practitioners, specialised in the field of immigrants’ labour market integration
- European VET Providers exploiting ACTION methodologies
Partnership
Keywords
Immigrants, employability, VET.
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