"The ""migration crisis"" in Europe and the new waves of migration be it political, climatic, etc. has considerably increased the number of practitioners dealing with the demands of different migrants/refugees and asylum seekers; in particular workers in institutions such as :1° trade unions defending these precarious workers, subjected to economic exploitation or undeclared work where the standards of national and European social law are neither made explicit nor respected, and2° associations that see their training offer (language, citizenship, etc.) extended to migrants. The partners are convinced of the importance of welcoming migrants as a whole to enable them to know their rights and develop their capacity to act. Integration must respond to the emergency situations of migrants while thinking about their longer-term integration in the host country. The acquisition of these social and human rights is one of the pillars of the European Union. Migr'action then defined the following objectives to participate in the construction of an inclusive society and a more social and humane Europe by improving the integration of migrants at the economic, social and civic level and more particularly at the reception stage, orientation and mobilisation as part of its journey: - consolidating a Europe-wide partnership for better transnational synergies, strengthening the role of the partner institutions in this area. - to strengthen the skills of practitioners who accompany the specific public (here migrants) in order to better understand other contexts and to discover methodologies, tools, initiatives in other European countries. - To exchange on effective and innovative strategies, more particularly through the exchange of participative and digital tools and practices aimed at facilitating the reception, orientation and mobilisation of migrants in the context of their integration process.Between 10 and 15 professionals (counsellors, trainers, adult educators, guidance agents, intercultural mediators) from the 6 partner organisations based in Italy, France and Belgium (CSC Mons La Louvière, CIEP Hainaut Centre, CFDT Ile de France, IAL, ANOLF, CISL Abruzzo) will be involved in joint learning sessions as well as around 20 professionals working closely with the organisations involved. In these learning moments, they will exchange on the contexts of the different regions as well as on practices, initiatives and tools related to the reception, orientation and mobilisation of migrants for a better social, civic and economic integration.The result will take the form of a Guide to Good Practice, capitalising on all the elements that can be transposed to a European level and exploited in other contexts. The impacts for the participating organisations will be on the one hand to strengthen their role and missions and on the other hand to develop new practices on issues of integration of migrant people. Another impact is the consolidation of their partnership on the theme of economic, social and civic integration of migrants on a European scale. Transnational cooperation will then be integrated into their strategic development. They will thus improve their organisation and international reputation, which is conducive to contributing at their level to the EU's social and economic projects.At practitioner level, the overall impact is the integration of the transnational dimension in their own context through, for example, the application of participatory and intercultural strategies, tools and methodologies explained by other partners. They will increase their capacity to improve their skills and competences as well as the quality of their daily work. They will enhance their professionalisation through a more integrated approach to the integration of migrants/refugees, at the level of reception, mobilisation and guidance."

Considering that the EU has decided to put 2030 Agenda as a theoretical basis for the next funding programme, we consider it essential to make a concrete contribution to the dissemination of these goals in our territories through the formation of specific categories representing the target group of users of the Tandem Plus network in Europe.The potential for dissemination of key concepts via VET to end users is very high. The choice to develop internal methodologies and policies to ensure an incorporation of the objectives more directly connected to social inclusion within the training activities proposed by the VETs, would have an important impact on the awareness of the population.Nonetheless, for the disadvantaged categories with which VETs are used to work (neets, unemployed, low-skilled, people with learning disabilities and migrants/refugees) the difficulty of socio-economic inclusion is mainly due to the training deficiencies generated by various social phenomena. This condition makes these categories often difficult to reach by social awareness campaigns.The project UnitED for Global Goals aims at creating a platform of exchange among the partners who belong to the European Network Tandem Plus to learn and share experiences among operators of VET on the topic of Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, especially focusing on the contributing to share knowledge and practice, learning and inclusion actions that each partner has adopted, or is willing to share to tackle challenges identified in three specific Agenda 2030 goals, addressing the challenges that every European community and country is facing.- ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy (No. 7)- Making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable (No. 11) - Sustainable consumption and production models (No. 12) The 3-year long project involves partners of the Tandem Plus Network who have been active in transnational projects (Forcoop, Anjaf,CIEP ) and those who have been officially and directly involved in such projects for the first time as partners of the network (CSS, IASIS, ISUM). This is the result of a commitment of the network to capitalize on the knowledge and practice of the single members and the development of innovative actions carried out in the framework of transnational cooperation.UNITED for SDGs focuses on two interconnected objectives:1) Reinforce the transnational potential of the network and its members to operate at local level with the added value of the transnational cooperation, through a process of benchlearning, that is by sharing and confronting systems and solutions, methods and practices that they utilized or operate with in order to improve and adapt them to new challenges.2) Support the capacity of involved organizations and their local networks to improve their service provision and outreach especially for their main targets: adults over 45, adults and young people with low educational attainments, migrants and refugees, NEETs and long-term unemployed to mention some groups.The project capitalizes on a number of local, regional and national – including some Development of Innovation ERASMUS + projects carried out – independently or as diversified consortia – by project partners.The project activities consist of alternating in-depth joint training/learning sessions (5 Joint Staff Training sessions of the duration of 4 days each) with Transnational meetings (6 TM each of two days). The method of alternating Training sessions (sharing of knowledge and experience) and TM (evaluating and consolidating results) will allow to closely follow the whole process and build on its results as the project evolves. It also provides for the inclusion of specific topics regarding key skills development that require special attention and that represent new needs for VET and social workers to better respond to emerging needs of the final target groups.The deliverables of the project are:5 joint training/learning sessions on specific aspects of Agenda 2030 for Social Inclusion development and recognition / validation of the duration of 4 days each, with an average number of 20 participants each.6 transnational meetings of two days each focusing on the evaluation and consolidation of the knowledge and know-how generated during the training/learning sessions 6 local dissemination events organized for the benefit of stakeholders and in presence of transnational participants to share with external actors the main content/knowledge An e-publication of a general compendium consolidating the project’s results and shared experience (English French)Communication or the project’s activities and results on Tandem Plus website and ERASMUS + results (EPALE if relevant) as OER material.

UNEXPRESSED TALENT (UT)contributes to reduce the phenomenon of social and educational exclusion of young people (14-24 y.o.) by means of their active participation in civil society and increased personal accountability. Literature points out that one of the main indicators of uneasiness, often resulting in school dropout, is linked to an insufficient level of social inclusion and a scarce participation in democratic life as well as a general lack of the so called soft skills allowing young people to make the most proper decisions about their personal and professional life. The main problems identified at the beginning of the project, are: 1. Lack of a structured analysis on formal and non-formal education organizations: a scientific-based analysis in order to understand the origins of young people uneasiness and to recognize the alerts of such risks; 2. De-motivation of young people: the high percentage of young NEET is often caused by a lack of coordinated strategies aimed at intercepting, motivating and giving them the confidence and hope in the future; 3. Unexpressed talent: young people in discomfort situation often possess capabilities and a social capital which are not properly exploited by the formal education system or in the environment they live in. Such reasoning has led the partners to identify 3 specific objectives: 1. To conduct an analysis in formal and not formal education agencies to determine the phenomenon according to quantitative and qualitative indicators; 2. To motivate young people involving schools, municipalities, associations and project stakeholders to jointly face problems and target common solutions; 3. To connect formal and non-formal education agencies for the purpose of improving both systems. In this regard, UT has tackled social uneasiness of young people in difficulty by developing a model of inclusion in active citizenship (CSOs, etc.) by fostering transversal skills and empowering youths by becoming more aware of their unexpressed talents. Such empowerment actions, matched with commitment in civil society dynamics helped better level of integration both at educational and, if relevant employment. Led by a European network specialized in training and inclusion of people at risk, TANDEM PLUS (FR), the partnership is made up by diverse but complementary partners, covering 7 different countries (BE, FR, ES, PT, IT, SI, HR) bringing together nine partners whose expertise ranges to different topics as: non-formal education, tools for vulnerable people, effective transversal skills assessment, scientific research on social issues, compared social analysis, development and test of tools with social impact, services to vulnerable groups as migrants and foreign students, social inclusion. Starting with a research phase, the project has provided inputs for development of different strategies for talent appreciation, and has developed a user-friendly assessment tool targeted to teachers, families and youngsters to identify their specific kind of uneasiness or exclusion risk. Following the preliminary research and alert tool, the partner developed a multidimensional model (output4): expressing talents. In the rationale of the project, this entails a 6-step comprehensive path, made up by a set of methods and tools that aim at creating links between formal and non-formal education stakeholders to support the empowerment of youth, especially for young people between 15 and 25 years of age, to foster autonomy and self-recognition of skills to make talents easily emerge and consequently build strategies to express and promote them with enhances awareness of the wider context in which they live and with the support of a more structured collaboration of territorial organisations. The model has been the result of codification and evaluation of tools such as “Unexpressed toolkit- IO 3” and “alert tools – IO 2” that has been tested first with educators and operators of formal and non-formal education during a Joint Staff training week in Madrid and then, after finalization, tested on about 200 youths in each of the 7 countries. The evaluation of the model and its tools (IO 5) has shown that the partners have increased their organizational skills and network at both local level (especially with schools and other local CSOs) and learned and benefited a lot by the transnational cooperation to improve staff skills and methods to be applied to their ordinary work with youth, which will have a positive impact on future work. The evaluation also highlights the overall positive impact on the youths involved in the pilot experimentation of the model, with achievement of the target numbers and increased awareness of talents. The final recommendations, which embed lessons from the experience, provide guidance for further actions for different stakeholders. The recommendations represent a roadmap for further work in the field.

"REC- Professional skills' development for recognition and validation of informal and non-formal competences learning of migrants and refugees & labour market inclusion - focuses on the VET and labor market inclusion of migrants and refugees by trying to find common standards (practitioners’ skills, tools, quality assurance and qualification paths) that are coherent with EU and national/local level requirements. The overall approach foresees two levels of actions/target groups: 1. enhancing and creating transnational professional competences of practitioners and stakeholders of VET in line with EU standards; 2. tools and practice that can make non-formal and informal skills of migrants and refugees visible and comparable, with formal recognition by VET providers and stakeholders, including those responsible for qualifications and employers. The project consortium is made up of an alliance of partners, covering 6 EU countries, and through the participation of two EU-wide networks, the possibility to reach other countries not directly involved, and the EU level. Therefore, it operates at two levels: the majority of partners are operational and 2 partners have a significant role in advisory, dissemination and outreach of stakeholders beyond the partnerships’ territories. The project is embedded in a common European context, where – in spite of different situations – common challenges exist, and the transnational EU- value can support the development of innovative practice and stimulate the local/regional stakeholders (where the transnationally- developed IO will be applied) in line with the following policy framework and current dynamics. VET can do a lot to make of the “migration crisis” a “migration opportunity” for the economy and the persisting mismatch of labour demand-supply especially in some sectors and for some professional profiles and qualifications. The general objective of REC is to reinforce the partners' capability to recognize and equip the most vulnerable groups with the key skills for improving the supply and quality of VET and guidance as a basis of integration into the labour market and qualifications of migrants/refugees. REC uses EU common reference frameworks and tools (such as Europass, ECVET, ESCO, EQAVET, EQF and the recently launched ""EU Skills Profile Tool for Third Country Nationals"") that can facilitate the transfer and the sustainability of the project activities and make them usable in different contexts and countries during and after its completion. The most important results and impact during and after the project’s life cycle are: IO 1 “defining EU profiles and competences of VET providers for recognition and validation of informal and non-formal learning of migrants and refugees” that resulted in a better understanding of practices, policies and systems in each participating countries and partners will use such baseline to develop common standards, liked to EU standards and tools (Europass, ECVET, ESCO) IO 2 “testing and validating the EU profiles to align shared standards with ECVET, EQF and ESCO” resulting in the increased ability of partners and stakeholders to address the needs of the disadvantaged, to provide services for the faster inclusion in VET and labour market of the migrants/refugees, in line with EU and national VET frameworks and objectives. IO 3 “analyzing lessons learned and defining policy recommendations” resulting in a better integration of EU and national standards and practice that can facilitate changes in terms of codification or improvement of policy frameworks at country/regional level IO 4 “making available REC material for practitioners on ICT- based platform” supporting the improvement of the quality of work of practitioners and provides knowledge and tool for opportunities for practitioners and policy makers (also external to the partnership) to improve professional competences for the benefit of migrants/refugees and other vulnerable groups. - 1 short-term joint staff training resulting in the alignment of core competences of practitioners to work on recognition of non-formal and informal skills, use of available tools and EU standards and better appreciation of their professional profiles. - 4 short-term blended mobilities reinforcing the professional profiles of practitioners - 5 national events and one final transnational event, to share and disseminate the results of the project and to promote its approach to external stakeholders - 3 transnational project meetings, to share, evaluate and make strategic decisions on the project’ progress -The ""REC : A book for practitioners"" : a user-friendly, visually appealing and easy to navigate in a form of an interactive document, functioning as an e-book ready to download, and made available in the project website and in the partners’ strongest communication channels Quality Assurance & Evaluation Plan defining the quality and evaluation processes, setting the quality standards for the deliverables and including evaluation questionnaires for the assessment of the project development. REC visibility ensured by the commitment and work of the 2 EU-wide networks."