Prosjektkatalog

As European countries face huge challenges seeking to support immigrants and asylum seekers’ socio-economic inclusion, some innovative means of fostering their integration into labour markets as a factor of economic self-sufficiency, should be developed in the cooperation of research, education and business sectors. Our goal is to strengthen the competitiveness of immigrants and asylum seekers in the Nordplus countries. The project is specifically sought to develop the training programme for adult educators in the field of immigrants and asylum seekers' digital entrepreneurship. The project will be implemented in 4 countries: Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Given to the data of context analysis (carried out by partners during the project preparation stage), the participating Nordplus countries are highly interested in the effective ways of the integration of immigrants and asylum seekers into labour market. As the development of ICT prompts new ways for business development (one of the ways is digital entrepreneurship), the educational programmes for target groups of adults should appear in order to fill in the gap in knowledge and skills. However, at present, there are no specific programmes for immigrants and asylum seekers in the field of digital entrepreneurship in partner countries. Meanwhile, as stated by research, digital entrepreneurship is supposed to become one of the most effective ways for immigrants and asylum seekers’ to integrate into labour markets, because it is not directly related to their qualifications or language skills that usually limits their employment capacity (Eurostat, 2017).
In the boundaries of the project, we intend to develop a training programme for adult educators, to work with immigrants and asylum seekers and develop their competence in the field of digital entrepreneurship. Trained adult educators will start implementing innovative programmes for target groups of adults (including immigrants and asylum seekers) thus reflecting the needs of labour markets, target groups.
Each partner country will gain the innovative training programme for adult educators developed in the boundaries of the project. Each partner institution will be able to implement training programmes for adult educators as well as (as indirect result of the project) educational programmes for immigrants and asylum seekers and/or other interested groups of adults. The experience of the project and its outcomes will be widely spread in various groups of stakeholders.

As European countries face huge challenges seeking to support immigrants and asylum seekers’ socio-economic inclusion, some innovative means of fostering their integration into labour markets as a factor of economic self-sufficiency, should be developed in the cooperation of research, education and business sectors. Our goal was to strengthen the competitiveness of immigrants and asylum seekers in the Nordplus countries. The project was specifically sought to develop the training programme for adult educators in the field of immigrants and asylum seekers' digital entrepreneurship. The project was implemented in 4 countries: Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Given to the data of context analysis (carried out by partners during the project preparation stage), the participating Nordplus countries are highly interested in the effective ways of the integration of immigrants and asylum seekers into labour market. As the development of ICT prompts new ways for business development (one of the ways is digital entrepreneurship), the educational programmes for target groups of adults should appear in order to fill in the gap in knowledge and skills. However, there were no specific programmes for immigrants and asylum seekers in the field of digital entrepreneurship in partner countries. Meanwhile, as stated by research, digital entrepreneurship is supposed to become one of the most effective ways for immigrants and asylum seekers’ to integrate into labour markets, because it is not directly related to their qualifications or language skills that usually limits their employment capacity (Eurostat, 2017). In the boundaries of the project, we intended to develop a training programme for adult educators, who work with immigrants and asylum seekers, and develop to their competence in the field of digital entrepreneurship. As the result of the project, we have developed and successfully implemented the developed training programme. Trained adult educators will start implementing innovative programmes for target groups of adults (including immigrants and asylum seekers) thus reflecting the needs of labour markets, target groups. Each partner country now possesses the innovative training programme for adult educators developed in the boundaries of the project and is able to implement training programmes for adult educators as well as (as indirect result of the project) educational programmes for immigrants and asylum seekers and/or other interested groups of adults. The experience of the project and its outcomes have been widely spread in various groups of stakeholders (we used Facebook, EPALE and institutional websites for this purpose).