Promoting Integration for Young Migrants

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

1. This project will address the urgent need to support the social, cultural & labour market integration of young recent migrants aged 18-30. A cross-border approach is needed because young migrants in the partner regions face common barriers to inclusion including limited language skills & knowledge of local culture & economy, low skills/qualifications, high unemployment & a lack of social capital & support. The cross border approach will also bring together the distinct specialisms of the partners, enabling them to develop a more comprehensive response to the target groups’ needs. 2. The project is highly innovative in its development of a holistic programme which will build on the expertise/experience of R&D Centre Linkoping in Sweden supporting labour market integration & that of Creative Ideas Latvia in supporting social/cultural integration. The programme will consist of a toolkit of options, including informal education to support engagement, language/cultural awareness training, vocational training, work placements, job brokerage & community based & workplace mentoring, & will be customised to individual needs. 3. The programme activities will include establishing a cross border network, initial mapping of the needs of young migrants in the 2 regions, existing integration programmes & gaps in provision, establishing regional support networks of municipalities, training providers, employers & communities with high concentrations of young migrants developing a joint training programme & toolkit, piloting the programme by training 50 young migrants recruited from the partner regions & evaluating, mainstreaming & disseminating the results. 4. The main project results will be: Sustainable cross border network; 1 Joint Young Migrants Training Programme; Piloting / Implementation of the programme with 50 young migrants; 120 people participating.

Achievements (EN):

PRIME - training programmes for young migrants: 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.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R4.1. Communities with improvements

Expected Outputs (EN):

1. The main result achieved will be to reduce the exclusion of 2 young migrant communities participating in the training programme and to enhance their social and economic integration. 50 young migrants will be trained and at least 90% will enhance their skills/achieve a qualification and/or move into employment. Participants will be surveyed at the end of the course & at least 90% will confirm that the programme has enhanced their social/economic inclusion. 2. The project will also recruit & train 15 mentors, either community or workplace based who will offer guidance and support to young migrants on the training programme. In addition it will establish stakeholder support networks in each participating region involving representatives of municipalities, training providers, employers and communities with high concentrations of young migrants from where the young migrants will be recruited. This will mean that additional results will be that at least 120 people will participate in the project as a whole, and at least 3 further geographical communities will be improved through the project. Participating community stakeholders will be surveyed at the end of the project and at least 90% will confirm that the project has improved social/economic inclusion in their communities. 3. These project results will directly contribute to achievement of the project overall objective and the specific objective of the programme and its main results indicator. A key output of the project will be the development of the holistic training programme & this will provide the basis for mainstreaming, dissemination & sustainability supporting the social & labour market integration of many more young migrants in the future. Both participating young migrants & stakeholders will be surveyed with 90% confirming that the programme has made a positive contribution to social/economic inclusion at individual & community levels.

Thematic information

Labour market and employment Education and training Social inclusion and equal opportunities

Specific Objective: More people benefiting from stronger Central Baltic communities

Thematic Objective: (10) investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing education and training infrastructure

Investment Priority: (10 ETC) ETC specific, for cross-border cooperation: investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing and implementing joint education, vocational training and training schemes

Partners (2)

Lead Partner: FoU Centrum, Linkopings kommun

Department: Omsorg och aldreforvaltningen,Linkopings kommun

Address: Drottninggatan 16, SE58181 Linkoping, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.linkoping.se

Total budget: EUR 145 475.13

ERDF budget: EUR 107 651.60

Creative Ideas

Name: Creative Ideas

Address: Krisjana Valdemara iela 145, k-5-61 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.creativeideas.lv

Total budget: EUR 95 159.69

ERDF budget: EUR 79 934.14

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Promoting Integration for Young Migrants

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Research and Development Centre Municipality of Linkoping

Promoting Integration for Young Migrants

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Summary

Project name (EN): Promoting Integration for Young Migrants

Project acronym: PRIME

Project start date: 2017-09-01

Project end date: 2019-08-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 240 634.82

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 187 585.74

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 187 585.74.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

137 / 137 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

663 / 663 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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