Cultural and linguistic differences in labour market

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-A Finland-Estonia-Latvia-Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2025-01-21

Description

Description (EN):

1. The common challenge of the programme area we are jointly tackling in our project it to improve the occupancy in the labour market of youngsters who has different cultural and/or linguistic background. 2. The overall objective of the project and the expected change our project will make to the current situation. The expected change concerns the the statistic as the unemployment rate in Estonia of young non-estonians is approximately 30% bigger comparing to young Estonians. /www.stat.ee/ Period: 2009-2021, focus-group: 18-24 years old youngsters. Finland's youth foreign-born population exhibits a lower employment rate than native-born Finns. According to Finnish stats, in 2022 the unemployment rate for foreign-born youth in Finland is 23.2%, while the unemployment rate for native-born youth is 14.47%. /www.stat.fi/ This suggests that foreign-born youth face greater challenges in finding employment, likely due to language barriers and other cultural factors. 3. The main outputs we will produce and those who will benefit from them are: - to improve the competiveness inside our target-group (10 young people from EST + 10 from FIN) - participants should have found the preferred occupancy (includes entrepreneurship) in labour market for the end of period i.e. after 18 months - be improved and tested educational program and materials for meeting the wider auditorium (the other centers of learning) after the end of current program 4. Our approach and the reasons for taking a cross-border approach are as follows: - self-mapping - involving practitioners - methods that support self-driven studies and researches - networking For all those approaches the cross-border dimension is enriching, but specially for the last one. With cross-border network our target-group can get: - the necessary confidence by finding out the people with similar potential and problems - unique contacts and clear ideas how to use those contacts to meet their (and current program) targets i.e. improve their competiveness in labour market 5. What is new/original about the project: The target-group combined with the goal is rather original. The big narrative in educational level today is the "melting pot" to get the results by mixing different cultures together. This is definitely most right way to do it and we definitely won't oppose to this, but complement this approach. By positive attitude and respect to their heritage we will give them confidence, tools and contacts how to turn their current disadvantages into advantages.

Expected Achievements (EN):

The project objective is improving entrepreneurial skills and employability of 30 non-native young people (mainly 17-24 years old) in the towns of Narva and Pori through specifically developed model based on the participating organisations previous experiences and expertise. The objective achievement will be measured by: - pre-post skill assessment - number of certificates with achieved learning outcomes - number of potential start-ups to be established - participants' confidence level (surveys) - participants' satisfaction level (surveys) - collecting participants' success stories (including involvement in local communities and businesses) - tracking the career progression of participants after the project ends (in 6 months and 1 year). At the end a successful model will be introduced to local authorities, non-governmental organizations, educational institutions and other project collaborators to benefit from.

Project outputs: People participating in the programme(EN)
Website: https://centralbaltic.eu/project/culdif/

Thematic information

Labour market and employment Social inclusion and equal opportunities

Priority: (VI-A_CB_P3) Improved employment opportunities

Priority specific objective: RSO4.1. Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy

Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO4 A more social and inclusive Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights

Type of intervention: 134 Measures to improve access to employment

Partners (2)

Lead Partner: Mittetulundusühing VitaTiim

Partner’s ID if not PIC: Reg no: 80258801

Address: Tuleviku, 20307 Narva, Estonia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Education/training centre and school

Website: https://www.vitatiim.ee

Total budget: EUR 100 335.50

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 80 268.40

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 20 067.10

Satakunnan Ammattikorkeakoulu

Name: Satakunnan Ammattikorkeakoulu

Department: Faculty of Technology

Partner’s ID if not PIC: FI23889244

Address: S, 28130 Pori, Finland

Department address: Satakunnankatu, 28130 Pori, Finland

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.samk.fi/en

Total budget: EUR 68 929.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 55 143.20

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 13 785.80

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Summary

Project name (EN): Cultural and linguistic differences in labour market

Project acronym: CulDif

Project ID: CB0500257

Project start date: 2024-05-01

Project end date: 2025-10-31

Project status: ongoing

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 169 264.50

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 135 411.60

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 135 411.60. Co-financing rate, 80.00%.

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Deliverables:

The template of the self-mapping and self-analysis and methodical recommendations
Programmes of three face-to-face meetings including methodology and learning outcomes.
Presentations and videos of the participants' business ideas with experts' evaluation
Recommendations and methodological guidelines for supporting young peoples' cross-border cooperation
Sustainability plan for integration of the project results.
Templates for skill testing, participants' confidence level, satisfaction level and success stories
Communication report

Programme Common Output Indicator:

RCO 081 - Participations in joint actions across borders, Measurement unit:

Programme Result Indicator:

PSR8 Number of people with increased entrepreneurship, Measurement unit: number of people

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-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

2025-01-21

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

63 / 63 (100%)

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

251 / 251 (100%)

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