ALMIT

The core idea of this project is to develop an innovative model for ascertaining the skills of migrants and refugees, thus making it possible to support this target group’s swift integration into the labor market.

The ultimate objective is to ensure both high-quality and sustainable employment as well as fair social protections, to combat social exclusion and poverty among migrants and refugees, and to improve the conditions under which members of this target group work.

This project is divided into a total of seven work packages. In these, activities including the following are carried out by the project partners:

• Development of an online language course including its curriculum and learning modules
• Compilation of civil society-related and intercultural course materials
• Pilot runs of the developed courses including their course materials
• Compilation of a “train-the-trainer” handbook
• Creation of an E-learning platform
• Guidelines for labor market policy regulations
• SWOT analysis relating to this project’s theme in the partner countries
• Matching with companies
• Publication including final conference in Vienna

All phases of this project involve close collaboration between ÖJAB and the other project partners. And for one of the work packages, ÖJAB is the responsible contact for the other partner countries. This work package has to do with compiling information on local labor market rules and trends as well as on rules pertaining to social assistance, cataloging of the target groups’ educational backgrounds and work experience plus compiling profiles that detail refugees’ skills, and ascertainment of current labor market demand.

Project partners: Bulgaria (coordinator), Serbia, Turkey, Austria

Project duration: January 2018 – June 2020