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InterCulturExpress

This project aims to improve the occupational opportunities for migrants and refugees in Vienna through skills recognition, training, and support. The project has successfully implemented various modules and created materials and guidelines to assist migrants in finding employment that aligns with their education and skills.

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InterCulturExpress

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  1. Promoting the occupational opportunities of migrants Viennese Development Partnership within the EU Community initiative EQUAL August Gächter presented at Realize First Transnational Workshop Cesena, 2012-02-07 InterCulturExpress

  2. Situation • Increasing shares of educated, trained, and skilled immigrants and refugees • Difficult to have qualifications formally recognized and informally appreciated • Very poor chances of upward mobility once an immigrant has slipped into a low-skill job • Nearly half the non-EU immigrants with more than compulsory education work below their level of education (but only 1 in 6 of non-migrants)

  3. Strategic goals • Earlier migrants: Promotion of occupational mobility • into employment • into new, more adequate employment • up the occupational scale • New migrants: Support for a more rapid entry into employment adequate to education received and skills obtained • Generally: Making qualifications visible

  4. Target groups Migrants in Vienna • Aiming to use their education or their occupational skills brought from abroad more adequately, or • Wanting to acquire skills, or • Actively looking for work, or • Wanting to return to work

  5. Target groups • Staff • in occupational adult education • in the Public Employment Service and other organisations promoting employment opportunities • potential mentors • Organisations • providing occupational adult education • companies as potential providers of internships

  6. Implementation InterCulturExpress was a pilot project i.e. intended as a learning experience for the organisers with small numbers of migrants with a view to producing the skills and materials for subsequent full-scale implementation Six component modules Carried out mid-2005 to mid-2007

  7. Successes • Mainstream partners got sensitized, acquired confidence and enthusiasm • Media events were well reported • Prompted high-level decision makers to pledge action to improve the use of “imported” skills • Continuation of components after the end of the EQUAL partnership • National level commitments in 2011

  8. Recognized education of participants 2005-2006

  9. Module 1: Lighthouse • Development and implementation of a training course incl materials and guidelines • Skilling recently arrived migrants and refugees as professional occupational orientation trainers and as education counsellors • 16 participants from 14 countries • Almost all gained employment in the field, i.e. became “peer counsellors”

  10. Module 2: Antenna • German as an occupational language in metals and electricity trades, and in mathematics • Legal advice, especially indebtedness • Development and testing of didactic concepts and self-learning materials • Product: curriculum, audiovisual teaching and learning materials • 26 participants, almost all transferred to regular training

  11. Module 3: Bimm • Occupational integration and mentoring for migrants – skills and company for women • Creation of a mentoring programme • Occupational training and orientation • Product: mentoring programme and publication • 24 participants, of which 9 received mentoring 13 found employment, 3 decided on further education

  12. Module 6: Ponte • Development and testing of e-learning tools adequate for recently arrived migrants • Practical ICT for educated or trained migrants • Product: guidebook on assistance with didactic and pedagogical commentary and worksheets • 24 participants, 3 gained internships in their desired occupations, all drew up career plans for the use of the PES to focus their next steps

  13. Module 4: Streetlight • Training for PES and adult education staff on the recognition of education and training from abroad and on inequalities in the labour market • Picked up from two earlier EQUAL projects • Product: action guide and newsletter (8 editions, 1300 recipients) • 661 participants in 30 workshops and 4 information events

  14. Module 5: Gender Mainstreaming • The project partners jointly wrote a film scenario on four female migrants in the labour market and their interactions with authorities, employers, experts • The movie, “Chance Migration”, was used by schools and a number of other institutions • Gender map showing resources linking gender and diversity

  15. Website All materials are at www.interculturexpress.at

  16. Suggestions • Provide rapid advice for new arrivals on education and labour market in order to exploit early enthusiasm and to optimize integration into the labour market and into the occupational structure • Provide tailor-made courses for persons arriving with useful skills in order to rapidly and effectively link them to the labour market • Provide training for recent arrivals with little or no education, training, and skills

  17. Suggestions • Make existing education, training, and skills visible to labour market stakeholders and to society more widely • Create competence centres for the recognition of training and education • From the very beginning involve all levels of political and social partner decision makers in a variety of roles: speakers, listeners, partners, counsellors etc.

  18. Successors • From 2007: Perspektive: Occupational and educational advice for recognized refugees in Vienna • From 2008: Competence Centre on Recognition and Further Education for New Immigrants • Merged in 2010 • Funded by ESF, City, and other sources • 2011 budget of Euro 654,407

  19. Services • Screening of education and training received abroad • Advice on education and training opportunities • Guidance throughout the recognition procedure • Up to €600 per person for occupational training courses

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