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The context

The EU landscape

The Europe 2020 Strategy sets ambitious objectives for smart, inclusive and sustainable growth. Refugees are also essential to achieve this.

Current training embedded in the integration process must be revised to ensure a more successful and long-term labour market integration of them.

This is key to unleashing refugee people’s potential and achieving the Europe 2020 objectives. Refugees can contribute economically to the societies that welcome them in many ways: as workers, innovators, entrepreneurs, taxpayers, consumers.

Vocational training offered at their arrival–or even beforehand are too often a disputable investment, typically of public funds as skills offered can’t enable refugees to find higher-skilled and better-paid work longer term.

The project

Changing lives through coding

NewTalents4EU project proposes to empower all refugees to program their future, making integration work now and more durably. Market-focused training schemes in coding/programming skills and enterprises networking will be implemented by social innovators across four EU countries, offering a skilled workforce in a demanding sector.
This is going to drive digital transformation, help secure the host country’s long-term social and economic growth and to build the EU digital economy.

NewTalents4Eu intends to show that on the one hand, Europe is lacking talent on the other one Europe is wasting the skills, talents and competences of refugees.

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The objectives

How IT can help migrant labour integration

The objective of the NewTalents4EU project is to design and pilot an innovative path for labour integration of refugees, based on a specific IT skill development programme and cooperation and mobilisation of public services, employers and social and economic partners, to raise the employment rate quickly and effectively and to ensure long-term employability, across different cities and regions in 4 European countries. This is to be addressed:

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Collecting previous country-based experiences implemented by involved partners and similar actions with similar objectives in order to analyse strengths, weaknesses, challenges, and accomplishments;

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Building a standard IT training scheme for refugees and tailoring/validating it in accordance with country-based needs and constraints;

3

Piloting the validated schemes in 4 European countries, implementing different measures to ensure skills matching and foster interested parties and employers’ involvement;

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Evaluating the different pilots by investigating with refugees and engaged interested parties to capture qualitative and quantitative indicators;

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Capitalising results to set-up a shared business model for future replication and draw up country-specific guidance for national deployment.

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