<< Objectives >>The project will nurture the entrepreneurship mindset, abilities and skills of foreign and native residents of Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The project will help its participants to be more competitive in the labour market and the digital economies, take advantage of knowledge and skills they already have and turn their ideas into successful businesses. By promoting work in teams composed of foreign and native residents, the project will also foster social and economic integration.<< Implementation >>Project participants will take part in the Startup Camp – a series of hybrid trainings and workshops focused on the step-by-step development of their business ideas. Through working on the Online Ideas Repository, project participants will develop further their digital competences. Trainers involved in the project implementation will meet regularly to gather knowledge and good practices on how to train and support foreigners and natives in developing businesses.<< Results >>Training materials, Startup Camp, Online Ideas Repository and training guidelines will be the main products of the project. They will equip project participants with knowledge, skills and agile techniques and tools on business development and implementation, promote their business ideas, and allow for the exchange of experience among practitioners from Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic involved in education and training activities in the sphere of entrepreneurship.

<< Objectives >>RESPOND TO THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEE CRISIS BY TRAINING YOUTH WORKERS IN AWARENESS RAISING AND REFUGE INCLUSION -Develop and test a methodology for raising awareness campaigns -Train youth workers to transfer educational methods from non-emergency into crisis contexts-Share best practices to adapt long-term educational services to a new target group-Engage European Youth in a response to this crisis through volunteering-Strengthen capacities of youth workers in the sector of refugee inclusion<< Implementation >>WP2: A1.Training:innovative communications and awareness raisingA2.Develop a methodology for awareness raising on refugee crisisA3.Awareness raising campaign on Ukraine in each partner country.WP3: A1.Needs analysis: Slovakia and RomaniaA2.Workshop: educational projects into an emergency contextA3.Action plan development WP4: A1.Training: long-term opportunities for inclusion of young refugeesA2.Test activities and focus groups with target communityA3.Writing a report on conclusions<< Results >>-Methodology: raising awareness on refugee crisis with digital tools-Awareness raising campaign in all partner countries -2 action plans for educational projects in Romania&Slovakia-Report: transfer educational projects from non-emergency into crisis context-4 test activities with target community-Dissemination plan: the educational needs of refugees fleeing Ukraine.-Increased number of young Europeans engaging with the crisis-Increased expertise of youth workers in partner organisations

Many migrants in Europe face social and economic exclusion because of their nationality, social status and/or religion in their country of residence. Unity in Community develops new inclusive adult education methods and courses in the area of active citizenship that enable to connect the local population within a country with migrants. By doing so, Unity in Community uses the topic of sustainability as a framework to promote and enable community projects which are going to be implemented by locals and migrants from one community. The project will be international collaboration of partners from Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia. The partners from Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia are involved in community projects with migrants in different areas (skill-sharing, intercultural dialogue, peer2peer learning). The partner from Austria is an environmental organisation running education programmes for community projects without including migrants so far. Objectives of Unity in Community are+to train adult education staff and develop appropriate methods to improve their mentoring skills for community projects+to create a methodology that can be implemented by the project partners and picked up by further adult education institutions or NGOs, dealing with the topics of inclusion and sustainability+to develop trainings that will qualify people to mentor and set up community projects that can be easily implemented locally all over Europe+community projects and activities to become more inclusive and sustainableThe participants directly involved in the project process are going to be1. adult educators of participating organisations, actively involved in local community building2. leaders from both migrant and non-migrant background3. adult educators outside participating organisations , social workers, NGO workersInternally, 8 adult educators will be involved, recruiting up to 30 directly involved participants from target group 2 and 3. By testing our methodology via community projects we will reach at least 100 people in the first phase of the project. In the phase of training and dissemination we want to reach 500 people directly who will act as multipliers in order to reach at least another 10.000 people indirectly through dissemination events. Supported by our media channels, we will cover a range of at least 80.000 through the partner organisations ' networks.The project will involve participants, who have great ambitions but lack the means to acquire proper training in the field and are motivated to start their own initiatives on a community level. Additionally, we use the project Unity in Community as a tool for motivating people to set up inclusive initiatives in their communities who have the potential of doing so, but have not identified the initial idea yet or lack of contacts to like-minded people.Through the development of a mentoring methods for adult educators and trainings for multipliers, we will foster inclusive and sustainable approaches on how to work with migrants and locals on community level. In the 25 months lasting project process, the consortium will+ set up a study in order to establish the following activities on a scientifically proven basis+ develop a methodology for adult educators in order to qualify them for mentoring sustainable community projects (target groups 1 and 3)+ design and conduct a capacity building training for qualifying people to conduct community projects on their own (target group 2)+ create a handbook and a video tutorial in order to make our results public and guarentuee open access+ implement 4 multiplier events in each participating country in order to disseminate the results to a maximum degreeUnity in Community will obtain the following results:+adult education organisations dealing with community projects will be able to establish structured mentoring methods and capacity trainings within their adult educational programmes +having a mentoring method established in order to support community projects in a structured way, being distributed via a handbook and a video tutorial+adult education organisations being able to offer professionally developed capacity trainings to people interested in their community work+enhance community projects connected to the organisations’ goals The participating organisations will profit from professional development of the partner organisations’ adult educators staff in mentoring inclusive and sustainable community projects. The participants will be enabled to implement sustainable and inclusive projects themselves or deepen their experiences in the field and become inclusive leaders.As a long-term effect, migrants and non-migrants are getting better integrated in communities by profiting from adult education methods developed by the project. Sustainable projects will empower people to become active citizens and create diverse societies they want.

<< Background >>Recent migration dynamics in Europe have been characterized by the rapid growth of third-country migrant groups. According to Eurostat, 2,7 million immigrant entered the EU from non-EU countries in 2019. This means that there are 23 million non-EU citizens living in the EU. These numbers do not consider all of those who have been granted citizenships, but still have a migrant background. In addition, there were 416’000 first-time asylum seekers in the EU in 2020, which, while being a reduction from the zenith in 2015, still is a significant number compared to the start of the decade. Such an influx of people presents a variety of challenges, including integration into the host country’s workforce. This challenge requires a holistic approach, and will greatly benefit from the synergies that emerge from combining various European partners with different backgrounds and experiences. Migrant women, and especially mothers, are over-represented in the statistics of people outside the workforce. Many are not applying for any form of social welfare and are therefore almost invisible to the state. Those who try to enter the workforce, are met with unsurmountable obstacles. They might lack the required education, or not get the education from their home country recognised. There is also evidence of discrimination against women with a migrant background, which further worsens the situation. Cultural barriers such as language and understanding of social norms is another obstacle. The target group of the project is migrant mothers with limited digital skills or, low levels of formal education and limited formal labour market experience in their receiving country. In addition, we the project seeks to highlight the situation of formally educated migrant mothers who are unable to get their credentials or degrees recognized in their receiving societies. This is a generally overlooked group with a wealth of untapped resources. In an increasingly digitized world, limited digital skills and competencies represent a significant barrier to social or professional participation. Many within this segment are in family care situations with few upskilling or reskilling opportunities, and the project seeks to accelerate their paths towards employability in culturally different settings, providing tools to illuminate new perspectives on working life.The partnership recognizes the demographic heterogeneity of this segment of migrant mothers, both within the national contexts of the respective partners, as well as compositional differences between them. These factors will be taken into consideration throughout the development and implementation processes of the WPs, thereby strengthening the transferability of the results and in turn maximizing the potential for future use in other European national contexts. Our goal is therefore to create training programmes for these women that will facilitate upskilling and recognition of prior learning and therefore improving the availability of high quality learning opportunities.<< Objectives >>The MOMDIG project aims to develop a comprehensive TRAINING COURSE with the objective of mapping and developing the non-formal, informal, and formally acquired skills, knowledge and competences among stay-at-home migrant mothers. This approach aims to strengthen their employability and facilitate their entry into the labor market without requiring extensive re-education. In addition, the methodology has the potential to reduce the average length of time of re-entry into the labor market after childbirth. The project will utilize employability and entrepreneurship as specific empowerment measures, through the use of a two-pronged approach:· First, to identify existing competencies and skills among migrant mothers, and assist in exploiting their transferability to the context of formal employment opportunities.· Second, to assist migrant mothers in overcoming the cultural barriers they may encounter during their entry into the labor force of their receiving society. In order to facilitate recognition of informal learning in a professional context, competencies and learning outcomes will be in accordance with EU-standards for qualification assessments and employability (i.e., EQF and ECVET). The overarching aim of the training course is to assist migrant mothers in “translating” their competences as transferable to the labor market contexts, strengthen their cultural understanding and facilitate their inclusion in society and in the communities where they live.The project will also develop a TRAINING PROGRAMME for trainers and educators working in the fields of inclusion and integration. However, it is important that they understand the innovative methodology brought forward by MOMDIG. By creating a programme tailored for this purpose, we will ensure the quality of the training programme for the mothers. The training programme can be adapted to both digital or blended learning formatsAn important product will be a pedagogical handbook, which will provide an overview detailing the process of the project as well as the methodology and content of the training courses. The target group being stakeholders who are involved in relevant fields, and interested in, or wish to use the results of the project (e.g., training courses) in the future.The totality of our efforts and outputs will provide tools to illuminate new perspectives on working life, assist them in upskilling and giving them access to high quality learning opportunities, strengthening their digital competences, and finally empowering them for employability and entrepreneurship.<< Implementation >>We will specifically use employability and entrepreneurship as empowerment measures. We will further focus on the visibility and documentation of the target group’s previous learning, regardless of being acquired through formal, non-formal or informal education. In this context the underlining of the aggregation of skills and competences informally acquired during motherhood and family care is central. With an innovative implementation of EQF/ECVET principles to describe and document these skills as parts of an individual’s total competence portfolio this project takes a significant step towards making the employment potential more visible. This innovative use of learning outcome identification should facilitate recognition of prior learning and serve as valuable components in a CV. Training modules will be developed based on the competence definitions. The idea is that the modules will function primarily as physical courses for people to attend, but material will be available online. This will improve the sustainability of the project, and facilitate different teaching methods. The project will also create training for educators and other education staff, to improve their competences and facilitate the implementation of the training programmes. The project will consist of four individual work packages:1.NEEDS ANALYSIS and research of the state of the art, and analysis of European best practices.2.Development of a QUALIFICATION MATRIX, focusing on soft and transversal skills, according to the ECVET standards. Upgrading of the Skillsbank platform, to use it as a repository for the training modules.3.Development of TRAINING MODULES for migrant mothers, with particular focus on building confidence and self-efficacy. The partnership will develop modules which will be created as stand-alone online resources. Development of training material for trainers within the field who wish to start using the MOMDIG methodology and training courses. WP5 will run partially in parallel with WP4, to facilitate the involvement of the trainers in the piloting of the course for the mothers.4.PILOTING and IMPLEMENTATION of training modules. After the development of training modules, they will be piloted with 15-20 mothers and 5-10 trainers in each of the partner countries. This will give insight in the strengths and weaknesses of the programmes and allow for adjustments. The final results of the project will then be two training courses and a pedagogical handbook.In addition to the work packages, we will organise five learning activities for piloting the training programmes and five multiplier event to promote the project results. The project will end with a final conference in Oslo, where we will present all of the results of the projects and the main contents of the pedagogical handbook.<< Results >>In WP1 we will create a report based on the research into the state of the art, European best practices, and an analysis of the target group. This document will be in English, and work as the starting point for the other outputs of the project. WP2 will use the data from the first report to create qualification matrices according to the ECVET/EQF frameworks. The matrices will be sent out to relevant stakeholders for feedback, adjusted and then translated into the partner languages. The qualification matrices will be combined with the self-assessment procedures in Skillsbank to create a competence profile. This will facilitate recognition of prior learning procedures. The matrices will also be the basis for the training programmes in WP3. WP3 is the main work package in the project. Here, the partnership will use the data collected so far in the project and their own experience to create two training programmes. Both courses will have elements of face-to-face training and digital aspects, but the one for the target group will mostly focus on the first. The training for educators will be more digital. This distinction is due to the different prerequisites of the participants. The training programmes will be translated into all partner languages, as far as this is fruitful for the project and target group. WP4 will start the testing of the training programmes by conducting pilots with both participants and educators. The feedback from these will be implemented into the final training programmes. As a final output, the partnership will combine the most useful experiences from the project, relevant data and the training programmes into a pedagogical handbook. The handbook will be translated into all partner languages, and spread out through the partner networks to strengthen the sustainability of the project.In addition to this, we will create promotion material such as newsletters, press statements and flyers during the project lifecycle to ensure a good promotion of the project and our results.

The objective of the project Career Path is to enable migrant workers from non-EU countries in Europe to achieve their professional aspirations and fulfil their potential. In order to allow that to happen it's important to create an environment where they have access to qualified advice and guidance and to further professional development opportunities. The goal of this project is therefore to prepare policy recommendations and toolkits for and with relevant stakeholders (public institutions, employers, adult education organisations and NGOs) that will enable them to create a more supportive environment for the professional growth and economic integration of migrants.To fulfil this goal, we need to deeply understand the needs of our target group and the deficits of the existing environment that should be able to address them. For this reason we will map and analyse the existing situation in all partner countries by organising 30 interviews (5 interviews with public/civil servants and NGOs, 5 interviews with HR managers, 20 interviews with migrant workers from non-EU countries) in every partnership country (Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia and Slovakia). A part of this background research will also be a report on best practices that will document the cases when migrants are getting good support in their career growth which can serve as examples to be replicated elsewhere.After the research part, we will organize 4 study visits (one in every partnership country). The main purpose and content of the visits will be a presentation of findings from the first phase, immersion in career guidance on the national level (explanation and showcasing), introduction of relevant stakeholders and sharing of best practices. Following study visits will be the preparation of the policy recommendations and compact toolkits for specific types of stakeholders. Policy recommendations will serve as suggestions and guidelines on the course of action and priorities for policymakers, public sector, employers, institutes of adult education and relevant NGOs. The toolkits will be tailor-made practical guides advising specific types of stakeholders how to translate policy recommendations into their daily reality. All throughout the project implementation, a special emphasis will be put on cooperation and networking amongst stakeholders. Contacts of all relevant stakeholders will be collected on a rolling basis throughout the project ́s phases and an effort will be made to engage them in the preparation of the outputs. During the last phase of the project, we will organize four multiplier events (one in every partner country), which will help us share and increase the visibility of the project ́s results amongst stakeholders. A database of the stakeholders ́ contacts will also be presented and shared at this event for purposes of future partnerships. All events and results will be communicated with a press release and by publishing information on partners ́ websites and social media.