Project|New Upskilling Pathways for Adult Migrants In Craftsmanship
The project is a strategic partnership aimed at promoting up-skilling and re-skilling of adult migrants (18 to 35 years) facing social exclusion with basic craftsmanship skills in EU countries through an innovative educational format integrating transversal and entrepreneurial skills and an e-commerce platform to sell their traditional hand-crafted ethnic products. An analysis for the EU-28 population aged 25-54 shows that in 2017 just over one third (35.4 %) of non-EU-born migrants had successfully completed at most a lower secondary level of education. These results show a clear need for education, lifelong learning and upskilling for adult migrants (Eurostat, 2018).
As explained by Eurostat (2015), the working age of the migrant population (15 to 64 years) is 78% of the total and migrants in the EU are mostly in the 18 to 35 age range. Therefore, it could be an impacting workforce with a high employability potential. Obsolete working skills are one of the most important causes of social exclusion. NGOs already working with migrants will be at the core of the partnership and will engage the target group in project activities.
Objectives:
1. Promote the re-skilling or up-skilling of migrants’ basic, transversal and entrepreneurial competencies through a new upskilling path to give them the capacity to valorise their handicraft skills;
2. Valorise skills and competencies of crafts migrants in the e-commerce field;
3. Build capacity of self-entrepreneurship for a sustainable and independent life;
4. Promote social inclusion of migrants in EU countries by empowering them to enter the job market through newly acquired competencies.
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