Border crossing is not a new phenomenon and Europe has been facing, in recent years, severe migratory challenges. Fleeing one’s home country may happen for a variety of push and pull factors including war, natural disasters, violence, human rights’ violation and persecution or low wages, high unemployment and limited opportunities for social mobility.
To face the difficulties of migrants’ socio-professional inclusion, PRISM is pleased to officially announce the beginning of the Erasmus+ project “Newcomers@Work: Strengthening the Employability of Young Refugee and Migrant NEETs”, coordinated by Gdańsk University of Technology, whose kick-off took place between February 28th and March 1st 2023 in Lisbon (Portugal).
The project aims at ensuring that young people who have recently arrived at a European country, regardless the reasons, find a motivation to stay and get the skills needed to be included in the local labour market. Only by participating in all spheres of economic and social life will they become active citizens and will their social inclusion be truly achieved – a common goal for the project partners and the EU.
During the two work days of the kick-off, the partnership mapped out a common course of action to achieve the expected results:
- Tailor-made curriculum for youth workers working with young refugee/migrants’ NEETs: development of four modules (1. The Needs of the NEETs; 2. Language and Digital Skills for Employability; 3. Soft/Life Skills for Employability; 4. Creating synergies and facilitate the delivery of learning) catered to support the training needs of youth professionals to effectively handle issues related to the employment and integration of newly arrived migrants.
- Digital toolbox for job mentoring: elaboration of tools to support employers in their job-mentoring with refugee/migrant. The role of the trainer and mentor who will assist these young people in the process of finding and keeping a job which is corresponds to their skills, knowledge and aspirations
- Migrants’ Traineeship experience and transferrable guide: structured work-experience of migrants with their mentors within on-the-job training activities, following in the elaboration of a to-do guide for sustainability.
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