Integrating Refugees in Society and Labour Market through Social Innovation

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Central Europe

Date of latest update: 2023-11-15

Description

Description (EN):

The challenge that SIforREF addresses is combating the risk of marginalization of refugees after the reception phases (which are different in the various central European Countries) . SIforREF’s main objective is to enhance significantly and/or to launch (where not existing at all) refugee integration policies at regional and local level (in the 4 involved regions), particularly addressing refugees’ transition from reception phases to autonomy. The change that SIforREF intends to produce is the following: we expect that refugee integration is included in the decisional agenda both at local and transnational level. Moreover, we expect that thorugh this project policy-makers and stakeholders engage in virtuous governance in order that innovative and inclusive measures become mainstream. The main outputs of the projects are: tools for evaluating and designing social innovative practices and improving the social innovation capacity of policies; pilots of these tools (7) and a regional and transnational strategy. As for the approach, SIforREF is based on the idea that best practices related to refugee’s integration can be found both in countries more experienced in tackling with refugees -or where policy makers explicitly put in their agenda refugees’ mid- term integration- and in countries less experienced or where national governments are more hostile. The complexity of this issue require a mutual learning among central European regions, especially neighborhood regions like those involved in the project. SIforREF conveys innovation because it tackles an issue (refugee integration) which is poorley addressed by official policies, despite attacched problems are evident, and because it aims not only at exchanging good practices, but intends to jointly design and implement methodologies for integrating refugees that draw from the social innovation approach.

Achievements (EN):

SIforREF improves policies for the inclusion of refugees into society and labour market through socially innovative policies and practices. In 2019 we co-created a toolbox with social innovative approaches on refugee integration from our 5 central European partner regions Vienna, Parma, Ljubljana, Bologna and Berlin. In 2021 we tested most promising approaches in 7 pilot actions and evaluated each of them together with participants, civil society & political stakeholders. In 2022 key learnings feed into a comprehensive transnational strategy with policy recommendations to provide policy makers and local communities with concrete tools to improve the integration of refugees.

Website: https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/home.html

Expected Results (EN): R 1.2 Status of capacities of the public and private sector for skills development of employees and entrepreneurial competences achieved through transnational cooperation driving economic and social innovation in central European regions.

Expected Outputs (EN):

Through a wide mutual learning at transnational level, which includes the design of methods for implementing and evaluating innovative practices, the project expects to improve the governance capacities of public and private actors (an d therefore to foster innovation in social policies). This result is extremely important since the issue of mid and long-term integration of refugees is poorly addressed by central European regions’ policies, which are still strongly focused on reception. Actually, a number of best practices of integration emerge in many regions, but they are not mainstream and widespread and common understanding and evaluation tools are lacking. For these reasons even the existing best practices suffer the risk of being ephemeral. SIforREF intends to overcome this risk in two main ways: 1) lead the issue of integration of refugees at the top of the institutional agenda in the involved territories; 2) achieve a strong and virtuous governance between policy makers (political institutions), NGOs. and stakeholders (e.g. employers). Moreover, SIforREF fotsters the participation of local community and the empowerment of refugees as protagonist of their integration and not only passive beneficiaries of top down interventions (it will be done especially in pilots action). A transnational approach is crucial for gaining a mutual learning and thus increasing knowledge and skills about refugee integration, as well as agreeing a common strategy for addressing this issue.

Thematic information

Labour market and employment Social inclusion and equal opportunities

Specific Objective: To improve skills and entrepreneurial competences for advancing economic and social innovation in central European regions

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (9)

Lead Partner: Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Department: Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage

Address: Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 Venice, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.unive.it

Total budget: EUR 355 660.21

ERDF budget: EUR 284 528.17

Technische Universität Berlin

Name: Technische Universität Berlin

Department: Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Berufliche Bildung und Arbeitslehre

Address: Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.tu-berlin.de/ztg/menue/home/parameter/en/

Total budget: EUR 409 434.19

ERDF budget: EUR 327 547.35

Universität Wien

Name: Universität Wien

Department: Department of Sociology - Department of Geography and Regional Research

Address: Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.soz.univie.ac.at/

Total budget: EUR 250 079.85

ERDF budget: EUR 200 063.88

ASP CITTÀ DI BOLOGNA - Azienda pubblica di servizi alla persona

Name: ASP CITTÀ DI BOLOGNA - Azienda pubblica di servizi alla persona

Department: General Directorate – Projects and Innovation unit

Address: Viale Roma 21, 40139 Bologna, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.aspbologna.it/

Total budget: EUR 240 212.59

ERDF budget: EUR 192 170.07

Caritas der Erzdiözese Wien (Caritasverband) gemeinnützige GesmbH

Name: Caritas der Erzdiözese Wien (Caritasverband) gemeinnützige GesmbH

Department: Gemeinwesenarbeit

Address: Albrechtskreithgasse 19-21, 1160 Wien, Austria

Legal status: private

Website: https://www.caritas-wien.at/

Total budget: EUR 222 993.00

ERDF budget: EUR 178 394.40

Comune d Parma

Name: Comune d Parma

Department: Social Sector

Address: Strada Repubblica 1, 43121 Parma, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.comune.parma.it

Total budget: EUR 214 493.00

ERDF budget: EUR 171 594.40

Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti

Name: Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti

Department: Slovenian Migration Institute

Address: Novi Trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.zrc-sazu.si/

Total budget: EUR 210 666.01

ERDF budget: EUR 179 066.11

I.S.I. e.V. - Initiative Selbständiger Immigrantinnen

Name: I.S.I. e.V. - Initiative Selbständiger Immigrantinnen

Address: Kurfürstenstraße 126, 10785 Berlin, Germany

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.isi-ev.de/

Total budget: EUR 161 569.38

ERDF budget: EUR 129 255.50

Kulturno društvo Gmajna

Name: Kulturno društvo Gmajna

Department: Association in general

Address: Trubarjeva cesta 72, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Legal status: private

Website: https://www.facebook.com/secondhomeljubljana/

Total budget: EUR 148 098.62

ERDF budget: EUR 125 883.83

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Berlin University of Technology

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Ca' Foscari University of Venice

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Universität Wien

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Public Company for Personal Services – ASP City of Bologna

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Caritas Vienna

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Municipality of Parma

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Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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ISI-eV Initiative for self-employment of immigrant women

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Gmajna cultural association

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Summary

Project name (EN): Integrating Refugees in Society and Labour Market through Social Innovation

Project acronym: SIforREF

Project start date: 2019-04-01

Project end date: 2022-04-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 213 206.85

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 788 503.71

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 82.50%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 788 503.71.

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Data source: https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/SiforREF.html

Publication date: 2023-02-16

Document date: 2022-04-30

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Central Europe

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2023-11-02

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