KA2: Co-operation for Innovation and Exchange of good practices

 

"Successful mobility beyond borders"

 

 

 

PROJECT PROPOSAL OUTLINE

 

 

Project Name and Title (provisional): Successful Mobility Beyond Borders

 

Programme reference: Erasmus+ KA2 – Strategic partnerships in the field of education, training and youth (specific sector: Vocational Education and Training)

 

Call for proposals: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/actions/cooperation-for-innovation-and-exchange-good-practices_en

 

Applicant organization: Università Roma Tre – Department of Educational Sciences

 

Aim of the project: To increase the preparation and chances of success of migrant workers within the European area, by reducing the level of improvisation in the definition of migratory paths and developing tools that allow a better coordination between the main information channels, career guidance services and vocational training system.

 

Target group: The project is addressed to all those migrant workers who can freely move within the European area, with particular attention to non-EU nationals who are already resident in any member State and own a permanent residence permit (secondary migrations).

 

Rationale: The last decade economic and financial crisis has accentuated trends by a growing number of individuals to make mobility a strategic choice for their social and professional enhancement, including both EU citizens and non-EU nationals who have already been living in any member State and are allowed to move freely within the European Union. This is particularly evident for Mediterranean and Eastern Europe residents and, among them, non-EU nationals are the ones who face greater difficulties when undertaking new migrations. From 2009 to 2012, as an overall size of the phenomenon, an average of 1,5 million people per year has moved from one country to another within the European Union (Eurostat), looking for their personal, social and professional fulfilment.

However, despite the existence of rules allowing the free movement of people across Europe, the migrants’ chances of success are drastically reduced by a high level of improvisation in the definition of mobility choices, mainly because of the following factors:

  • low fluidity in the circulation of information on supply and demand in the European labour market and prevalence of informal information channels;
  • lack of coordination between vocational training system and specific requirements of the labour market at European level;
  • inadequate language skills of migrants preventing their social and professional integration;
  • difficulties, especially by non-EU nationals, to see their professional skills recognized at European level.

 

To increase the migrants’ level of awareness and their chances of success, it becomes essential to develop effective tools aiming to facilitate the circulation of information and the coordination among all those organizations, both in the countries of origin and destination, which provide guidance and training to people willing to undertake new migrations. In particular, the project aims at providing updated information on the actual opportunities offered by the labour market in the country of destination and effective language training tools to facilitate the professional and social integration of migrants.

 

Main results and outcomes: The project structure includes three strictly interconnected phases, each of them leading to concrete results that are functional to the achievement of the project specific objective.

 

PHASE 1. Research and analysis aiming to deepen the knowledge of the phenomenon, by gathering and structuring the relevant information on the issues addressed by the project. The main objectives of this phase are:

  • identifying and locating the economic sectors that offer more opportunities within the European area;
  • gathering updated information on the main profiles required in different EU countries;
  • identifying the main limits that reduce the effectiveness and/or usability of existing formal and informal information channels.

 

PHASE 2. Creation of a web platform aiming to foster:

  • the sharing of good practices and information relating to supply and demand in the EU labour market;
  • the integration of information proceeding from the main formal and informal channels that direct the migrant workers’ paths;
  • the coordination of structures operating at different levels (networks of language schools, university departments, employment and career guidance centres, trade associations and unions, non-profit associations, ...);
  • the development and diffusion of Open Educational Resources (OER);
  • the recognition and transferability of migrant workers’ skills and competences.

 

PHASE 3. Creation of pilot training courses aimed at providing migrants specific professional and language skills as well as certifications recognized at European level. As known, the immigrant work covers professions and economic sectors that vary from one European country to another, creating forms of specialization based on ethno-cultural factors. However, these areas are susceptible to rapid changes, which require a continuous updating of professional skills. For this reason, the pilot training courses are structured on the basis of the information collected in the previous phases and will be integrated into the web platform as open educational resources (OER), with particular attention to language skills and the identified occupational sectors (for example: constructions in Polish, Swedish and Romanian; tourist reception in Italian and Spanish; grape harvest in Italian and French; transport and logistics in German and English; etc.). During this phase exchanges of trainers between the different countries involved take place as well as pilot tests to fine-tune the project products.

 

Partner organizations to be involved:

 

·         University departments and other research institutions

·         Employment and career guidance centres

·         Vocational training centres

·         Language schools

·         Non-profit associations and NGOs dealing with migration and social inclusion related issues

·         Small and Medium Enterprises dealing with ICT

·         Trade associations and unions

·         Local authorities at local, regional or national level

·         Sectorial networks

 

Each organization willing to join the consortium is kindly invited to fill in the online form by 21st of March 2015. Every partner is expected to provide at least two letters of support from local stakeholders by the submission of the project proposal.

 

Duration: Between 24 e 36 months

 

 

Deadline for applications: 31st March 2015