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Awareness Raising Workshops

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Awareness Raising Workshop

New Talents 4 EU

During the project implementation there will be two EU workshops and 4 national workshops organized in concomitance with other relevant EU or national events in order to maximize the potential of multi-stakeholder face-to-face meetings, and ensuring the participation of Social Partners: Local authorities, Chamber of commerce, trade unions, VET professionals, potential employers and other actors likely to boost and replicate the project’s goals.

First EU Awareness Raising Workshop:
“How ICT skills can improve migrants and refugees’ labour integration – Changing lives through coding”!

New Talents 4 EU

On the 10th of June 2020, took place the first EU awareness-raising workshop of the NewTalents4Eu project. Due to the social distancing restrictions applied for the COVID19 pandemic, the workshop took place online: it was a great success!

The workshop started with a short introduction of the project and the results obtained so far, presented by Simplon, the coordinator of the project. During the first year and a half of project, training on ITC skills for migrants and refugees have been delivered in four EU countries: France, Italy, the UK and Hungary.

The online workshop was then composed of two main parts:
– the first one was focused on presenting two training carried out by our partners: CO&SO and Code Your Future;
– the second one was divided into two working groups: “How to build and replicate ITC training for refugees and migrants” and “how the new skills helped migrants’ and refugees’ labour integration”.During the project implementation there will be two EU workshops and 4 national workshops organized in concomitance with other relevant EU or national events in order to maximize the potential of multi-stakeholder face-to-face meetings, and ensuring the participation of Social Partners: Local authorities, Chamber of commerce, trade unions, VET professionals, potential employers and other actors likely to boost and replicate the project’s goals.

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Second EU Awareness Raising Workshop “Digitalization: what role can new ICT tools and services play in supporting migrant entrepreneurs?”

New Talents 4 EU

On the 17th of September 2020, the NT4EU project organized, within the Growing Europe final conference, the online workshop “Digitalization: what role can new ICT tools and services play in supporting migrant entrepreneurs?”.

The session was organized and moderated by Diesis Network and saw the participation of the NT4EU’s partner Code Your Future, with its CEO, German Bencci. Among the guest speakers to the session were also present Christian Richmond Nzi and Ibrahim Ouassari who both presented their organizations, Mygrants and Molengeek, and the work they do to support migrants and refugees towards a better future by making IT knowledge and entrepreneurship accessible to everyone.

The aim of the session was to understand the importance of digitalization for a migrant that wishes to set up a business in Europe and in all phases of an enterprise lifecycle. Speakers also shared good practices of programs and activities implementing ICT tools with the aim of supporting migrant entrepreneurs that decide to develop an enterprise in Europe.

French Awareness Raising Workshop “Leveraging French language for job market insertion ”

New Talents 4 EU

On the 30th of October 2020, took place the national French awareness raising workshop, organised by Simplon.co. This event’s aim was to improve Simplon.co’s linguistic accompaniment of students by rebalancing the different aspects of language classes and bridging the language and IT classes, but also to soften the impact of French language mastery as a hindrance to labour market integration by reaching out to hiring companies and involving them more closely in the process.

The participants had the opportunity to choose to participate to one of the three parallel workshops proposed:
– workshop #1: “evaluating language skills”, animated by Christine Huynh (Simplon.co)
– workshop #2: “articulating language and IT skills”, animated by Theo Biddulph (Simplon.co)
– workshop #3: “French language in the workplace”, animated by Simon Mattia (Kaleidoscop)

During the first workshop, the evaluation of language skills throughout a training session was questioned. Workshop 2 focused on various points, such as accentuating IT-specific French language classes in training programmes without hampering IT classes, envisionning tailor-made curriculums for each individual student, bridging the gap between IT trainers and French language trainers, and providing IT-specific French language trainers with a programme-specific toolbox. On the third workshop, focus points were investigating hiring companies’ needs and expectations, differenciating and objectivizing: language as one of many factors of labor market integration, communicating specific evaluation landmarks, strengthening language training in sandwich courses.

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UK Awareness Raising Workshop “Future of work and employability in the UK tech sector”

New Talents 4 EU

The UK awareness-raising workshop organised on November 4th by CodeYourFuture gathered more than 40 participants. This was the opportunity to discuss on the future of work and employability in the UK tech sector.

Annette Joseph, Founder of Diverse&Equal, talked about her personal experience as the child of a Windrush family and the importance culture and identity took in her upbringing. In her work life, Annette has been challenging the ‘meritocracy myth’ and advocating for an approach to diversity and inclusion that embraces the significant benefits that companies enjoy when they engage in effective D&I practices.

Participants then heard from Madiha and Joan, two CodeYourFuture graduates who are now working as software developers at Capgemini. They shared the struggles they faced accessing the tech world and how, through the CodeYourFuture course they developed the technical and soft skills that make them successful developers today. Capgemini then presented how they have supported them through their partnership with CodeYourFuture and the guidance and opportunities they’ve had access to since starting at Capgemini.

During the panel discussion participants discussed the current state of diversity and employment in the North West tech scene, outlined some visions for what could be achieved and shared some real steps that can be taken to help achieve this. Hearing from various speakers outlined a clear vision for a future where diversity is embraced and cherished and the paths we can take to get there. Whilst there are significant challenges along the path there are real, impactful steps that individuals and organisations can take today.

Italian Awareness Raising Workshop “Focus on the labour exploitation of migrants”

New Talents 4 EU

On the 1st of December 2020, the NT4EU project organized, the Italian awareness-raising workshop of the NT4EU project organised by CO&SO took place. It explored the link between ICT skills and the fight against labour market exploitation. The session discussed on how migrants in Italy, very often, are under “blackmailed” or are obliged to work without any insurance (black labour) and moonlighting is common.

Patrizia Giorio, director of the European sector of CO&SO presented the trainings implemented in Lucca and Florence and that are considered as very innovative because of the presence of tutors and linguistic mediators. It was also underlined the importance that ICT skills can have in migrants labour market integration at the local level, and mode generally in Italy. Moreover, Manuela Soro, an anthropologist of CO&SO, underlined how ICT skills allow migrants and refugees to be informed about the job market and legal procedures, and to be able to find job opportunities in a transparent way.

At the core of the workshop, Andrea Cagioni, sociologist, researcher and social operator, presented in detail the situation of the labour market exploitation in Italy. He underlined, that often social operators and experts working with this target group do not have a full overview of the legislative tools which can support a regular job insertion. For the participants, it was very interesting to learn how to support the target group in the difficult process of integration through employment. It was a very practical event: concrete tips and tools have been given to professional working with refugees and migrants.

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Hungarian Awareness Raising Workshop “Steps towards Earning a Living Lawfully as a Non-EU Citizen in Hungary”

New Talents 4 EU

On the 18th of December 2020, took place the national awareness-raising workshop organised online by Next Step, the Hungarian partners of the NT4EU project. The event was a great success and was attended by more than 40 people!

James Peter, president of Next Step Hungary Association, opened the event with some words of welcome and introducing the agenda. The workshop was then composed of four main parts:

– Working in Hungary, legally: the presentation of Dr. Valéria Eszter Horváth, attorney-in-law, covered these main topics: seeking legal employment in accordance with legal status/work permit, rights and duties of an employee, being self-employed.
– Affordable learning opportunities to foster the labour market integration of third-country nationals in Hungary. Activities, results, and lessons learned from the NT4EU project: presentation of Lilla Prontvai (Next Step Association), project manager of the NT4EU project.
– Testimony of Maytham AlNeama, student of the NewTalents4EU project: Maytham gave practical information on the keys to finding a job in Hungary, such as IT and Hungarian language skills development, having a properly composed CV and cover letter, being open to communicating with people and being aware of legal rights and obligations.
– Chances of small businesses among third-country nationals: report of Marcell Lőrincz, director of the Subjective Values Foundation. Marcell put a significant emphasis on the difficulties of being an entrepreneur, the importance of the preparatory phase before opening a business, and the attitude of “expecting the best, but being prepared for the worst”.

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