Newcomers@Work
EU Programme: Erasmus+ KA2: Cooperation partnerships in YOUTH
Reference: 2022-1-PL01-KA220-000089667
Start date: 01/11/2022
End date: 30/10/2025
Newcomers@Work aims at supporting young refugee/migrant NEETs (Not [engaged] in Education, Employment or Training) with their insertion into the labour market, while facing both the employers’ lack of awareness and the scarcity of integrated job opportunities.
To reach this ambitious goal, the project adopts a three-folded holistic approach that is set to empower three targets comprehensively: newly arrived young NEETs of migrant background, youth professionals working with them and local employers.
In this sense, the project will train young NEETs of migrant background with competences towards concrete opportunities within the labour market, while providing youth workers with tools to facilitate and improve their community work towards better collaboration with local employers.
- To strengthen the participating countries’ labour market by creating a holistic support services interlinking local youth workers with employers.
- To upskill young refugee/migrants through tailor-made, learner-cantered educational and training opportunities accustomed to their needs with a strong work-oriented learning dimension.
- To empower youth worker professionals in their work within local employers, so that they offer quality opportunities for the effective integration of young people with migrant background in the labour market and in society.
- To create a safe, respectful space for young refugee/migrant NEETs recently arrived in the host countries, while establishing their career goals and aspiration through a mentoring support with local employers.
- 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.
- Newcomers@Work Curriculum
- Newcomers@Work Digital Toolbox
- Newcomers@Work Implementation Guide
Results
- Improved local employment systems for migrants in the hosting countries, by creating a holistic support services interlinking local youth workers with employers.
- Fostered transnational cooperation to transfer experience, knowledge and practices linked to the employment services putting youth workers as the bridge between young NEETs of refugee/migrant background with local employer.
- Higher quality engagement and involvement of local employers, who will be supported in mentoring and employing migrants.
Co-experts
- Newly arrived young NEETs aged 18-25 with a refugee or migrant background (living in the host country less than 5 years).
- Youth professionals working with refugee/migrant NEET youth.
- Employers who may offer employability opportunities to refugee/migrant young NEETs.
Partnership
Keywords
Migrants’ employment; young NEETs; youth workers; holistic community development.
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