The Expect More project aims to foster the exchange of good practices for integrating refugees into the labor markets and training systems of European countries. It was formed by a partnership of organizations in 7 countries to select, analyze, and transfer successful approaches related to counseling, vocational training programs, and work experience initiatives for refugees and migrants. The project seeks to help overcome skills mismatches, improve credential recognition, and facilitate sustainable integration through establishing a network for ongoing experience sharing.

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EXPECT MORE
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Short
presentation of
our project
EXPECT MORE

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THE PROJECT WAS DESIGNED WHEN THERE
WAS FOLLOWING SITUATION OF PEOPLE
SEEKING SHELTER IN EU COUNTRIES …
• September 2015 > 160.000
• January 2016 > 1.500.000

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IT GOT CLEAR QUICKLY THAT THEIR ENTERING
OF LABOUR MARKETS WILL BECOME –
SOONER OR LATER – A BIG ISSUE!
Some of the many hurdles are …
• Diverse education backgrounds - not even finished lower
secondary schools
• No comparable formal certificates or diplomas
• Work experiences >> gathered in work places different to
European work places

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• Cultural differences
• Language barriers
• Social barriers
• Lack of support by local citizens/politicians
• Lack of experiences dealing with the whole situation
• … and many more!!!

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Therefore, the following partnership was set up …
• ACEC (SK)
• BIOFORMA (HR)
• EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURS (AT) - Promoter
• FORMAZIONE CO&SO NETWORK (IT)
• FUNDACIJA PRIZMA (SI)
• HUMAN EXCHANGE (HU)
• OXYS MANAGEMENT (DE)

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EXPERIENCES WITH LABOUR MARKET
INTEGRATION
• There is simply not enough experience available on the level of concepts,
methods, approaches, issues and areas of action also based on a legal
situation of asylum seekers in the member countries
• Integration approaches must also be differentiated and adapted to the
cultural and country background of asylum seeker and refugees.
• The majority of asylum seekers have still not been awarded international
protection status and therefore full and open access to the European labour
markets

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EXPERIENCES WITH LABOUR MARKET
INTEGRATION
• There is a huge need to exchange approaches of good practices
from prior initiatives, mutually evaluate approaches for guidance,
counselling and also VET training programmes related to the
challenges of labour market integration of refugees in Europe.
• There is a big variety of knowledge, experiences and approaches
available in the field of VET counselling, guidance, C-VET
programmes and labour market integration all over Europe.

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What EXPECT MORE wants …
EXPECT MORE project wants to foster the crucial mutual exchange of
practices and good practice approaches on three core levels which are all
focusing on
1. enhancing equal and broad access to training and qualifications in C-VET
2. supporting work-based learning
3. developing the necessary transversal and social competences of refugees
from different cultural and societal backgrounds for integration into the
European labour markets and societies

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4 MAIN OBJECTIVES
Selection, analyse, evaluation, exchange and transfer of
good practices …
• …related to guidance and counselling approaches for
refugees and migrants in Europe
• … related to C-VET programmes and didactics in C-VET
for refugees and migrants in Europe
• … related to labour market integration and work
experience programmes for refugees and migrants in
Europe
• Setting up a sustainable network for experience and good
practice exchange

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3 generic topics (long-term perspective)
• Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)
• Recognition, transparency, certification of education
and/or knowledge, skills and competences
• Sustainable integration or refugees/asylum seekers

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IMPLEMENTATION (Methodological approach)
Matrix development
• Development of an evaluation and analysis matrix to identify good practices
Collection of good practices
• Research about good practices and successful approaches in the three core fields
of the project objectives
Evaluation and analysis
• Mutual analysis of the existing good practice examples to identify the core results
and models of refugees and migrants in the European labour markets and VET
systems over the next years

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IMPLEMENTATION
Development of good practice collections
• Development of the three good practice collections with the selected approaches for
each of the three levels
Learning/teaching/training activity
• Organizing a learning/teaching and training activity where relevant stakeholders,
trainers, policy makers, decision makers will come together and will be introduced to
the selected good practice models
Exchange and transfer phase
• Good practice approaches will be concretely implemented in partner countries for
the benefit for the target group and supported by the project partnership

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EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURS
VIEHMARKTGASSE 11
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