CRE.O.LA. CREatività, Organizazione e LAvoro

"<< Background >>Although innovation is increasing more and more in our societies and people have the possibility to express themselves in several new ways, young migrants with fewer opportunities still face difficulties to access the labour market because of lack of network or/and linguistic and digital barriers. The challenges in the labour market and social integration faced by young migrants have worsen up since the COVID-19 pandemic, where discrimination toward migrants increased and finding a job is more difficult if not impossible without effective networks.These are the needs that CREOLA addressed. By organising training to increase migrants’ digital skills and their linguistic competences, as well as developing a local network on employment between migrants and employers, the project had a positive impact on the life of migrants. CREOLA supported them to gain the basic skills required by the labour market nowadays. On the other side, employers have been connected more easily with migrants looking for jobs in the local areas and they also had an efficient network of employers to ask for advice or to share best practices.<< Objectives >>The main objective of the project has been to ease the access to the labour market of low skilled young migrants in their arrival countries by upskillig them with digital, linguistic and social competences and by easing the connections between them and the local employers. The specific objectives have been: to increase digital knowledge of migrants through the use of IT channels for job search and facilitate access to the digital platforms of public administration and institutions through the creation and use of digital identity; to increase language skills of young migrants, with specific reference to the sector specific language; to foster inclusion by increasing encounter opportunities between local employers and migrants by reducing distances (often also geographical), organizing workshops on specific topics that aim at the creation of co-produced materials. CREOLA wanted to strengthen the employability of young migrants as well as their key competences and basic skills. It increased opportunities to meet local communities, share social spaces and connect to people, local and foreigners, in order to reduce barriers between migrants and employers. << Implementation >>The main activities implemented in the project have been: A1. KOM in Italy in which partners met, introduced each other, and planned the activities and their roles in the project. Amunì also shared a communication plan.A2. Online meeting + Online LTTA: every month an online meeting has been organized in order to describe the activities carried out and track the progress of the project. An LTTA has been organized by Future focus in order to gain the skills and methodologies to lead storytelling workshops by using creative tools. A3. Final meeting and multiplier event in Malta. Amuni and Redial organized local events in order to share results of the project with the community; Future focus organized the final event in Malta with the participation of all partners: A4. Digital and linguistic workshop, led by amuni and organized in three countries (Italy, Malta, Irland); A5. Employers' network and storytelling workshop: led by future focus and organized in three countries (Italy, Malta, Irland); A6. certification competences led by ICEP which aimed to certificate competences and knowledge acquired to participants during the workshops (A4. and A.5)<< Results >>For each activity the following results were reached: “A1 Partners meeting in Italy”: 1 calendar containing project timelines, meetings, workshops and reporting deadlines; 1 Evaluation report of the KOM; 1 Communication plan; 1 agenda; 1 minutes; 1 signature sheet. “A2 Partners ON-LINE meeting + ONLINE LTTA”: Online monthly meeting among partners; 1 agenda for LTTA; 1 presentation of LTTA contents. “A3 Final meeting in Malta + Multiplier event”: 1 agenda;1 minutes; 1 signature sheet; 1 Final Event; 1 exhibition in Malta; 2 local event in Italy and IrelandA4 Digital and linguistic workshops: 1 attendance sheets; multilingual handbook ""digital tools for job""; A5. Networking and Storytelling Workshops: 1 Call for migrants’ and employers’ participation per Country; 3 storytelling workshop; 1 Photographic exhibition in Malta A6 Validation of competences: 47 certification of competences; 2 Protocol of certification. Other intangible results were: increased digital and linguistic skills among participants; increased sense of belonging to european dimension among direct target groups (employers and migrants)increased self-esteem and self-confidence of participantsincreased competences and skills of all partners"