FoU Centrum, Linkopings kommun
Country: SE
www.linkoping.se [1]
Partner budget: 145.475 EUR
Amount of ERDF funding: 107.652 EUR ERDF
P4 Skilled and socially inclusive region
4.1. More people benefiting from stronger Central Baltic communities
Central Baltic
01.09.2017 - 30.08.2019
240.635 EUR
187.586 EUR ERDF
The PRIME project addresses the urgent need of supporting the social, cultural and labour market integration of young recently arrived migrants between ages 18-30. The project focuses on developing a joint Young Migrants Training Programme. A cross-border approach is needed as young migrants in the partner regions to face common barriers of inclusion, including limited language skills and knowledge of local culture and economy, low skills/qualifications, high unemployment and a lack of social assets and support.
The cross-border approach will bring together the distinct specialisms of the partners, enabling them to develop a more comprehensive response to the target group’s needs. The project is highly innovative in its development of a holistic programme customised to individual needs. It will consist of a toolkit of options, including informal education to support engagement, language and cultural awareness training, vocational training, work placements, job brokerage and community based workplace mentoring. As a result, a sustainable cross-border network for addressing the integration challenges is created. The network is piloted among a group of migrants.
Country: SE
www.linkoping.se [1]
Partner budget: 145.475 EUR
Amount of ERDF funding: 107.652 EUR ERDF
Country: LV
Partner budget: 95.160 EUR
Amount of ERDF funding: 79.934 EUR ERDF
To promote the social and economic integration of young migrants aged 18-30 years who have limited knowledge of the host country’s language & culture and lack social capital & support, the project PRIME developed and piloted a training programme targeting young migrants with a refugee background in Linköping, Sweden and foreign students in Riga, Latvia.
The programme consisted of a toolkit of options, including, language and cultural awareness training as well as vocational training, work placements, job brokerage and community-based workplace mentoring. To measure the programme’s success, the project collected feedbacks from the young migrant participating in the training programme’s pilot & their mentors. The feedbacks showed that participants were satisfied with the training and with the knowledge and skills they acquired.
Within the programme framework, 100 young migrants participated in the training programme overreaching the initial target of 50. To support the programme, 40 mentors were also trained overreaching the initial target (15) in this instance too.
Lead partner's folder in English about the project [9]
Lead partner's website with info about the project [10]
Links
[1] http://www.linkoping.se
[2] http://www.creativeideas.lv
[3] https://database.centralbaltic.eu/project/69
[4] https://database.centralbaltic.eu/sites/default/files/PRIME_training_programme.pdf
[5] https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/content/prime-project-promoting-integration-young-migrants-lessons-learned
[6] https://database.centralbaltic.eu/tags/%E2%80%8Beducation-and-training
[7] https://database.centralbaltic.eu/tags/labour-market-and-employment
[8] http://www.creativeideas.lv/lv/prime/
[9] https://www.linkoping.se/contentassets/2fcfa433ab82468b9e36159bf84c012a/prime-a5-folder-lik-framsida-tryck.pdf
[10] https://www.linkoping.se/utforarwebben/vard-stod-och-omsorg/forskning-och-utveckling/fou-projekt-satsningar-och-aktiviteter/prime/
[11] http://www.creativeideas.lv/lv/projekti/prime-promoting-integration-for-young-migrants/