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Share your Skills
FunderEuropean Commission
Funder Contribution €60,000.00
Funded underERASMUS+ | Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices | Small-scale partnerships in adult education
Project code2022-1-NL01-KA210-ADU-000084655
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"<< Background >>In both the Netherlands and Germany, the shortage of skilled workers has been a major problem for some time. In some sectors, the situation is particularly serious. In the Netherlands and Germany alike, there is a clear shortage of skilled workers in nursing, gastronomy and warehouse logistics. Politicians, especially in Germany, are striving to use immigration to alleviate the shortage of skilled workers. To support this effort, we developed the project idea for ""Share your Skills"". From the outset, the project aimed to support immigrant citizens in the Netherlands and Germany in their professional orientation and, if possible, to win them over for a professional activity in a sector particularly affected by the shortage of skilled workers. In this way, immigrants are shown career opportunities with prospects and companies are offered new employees to reduce the shortage of skilled workers.<< Objectives >>In 2023, the Netherlands experienced a high influx of asylum seekers, so high that large sites for temporary emergency accommodation were built in several places in the Netherlands. In early 2023, a large emergency reception site was opened in Nijmegen, housing 1,200 asylum seekers in a large tent. In total in 2023 about 2200 asylum seekers where hosted in Nijmegen and close to Nijmegen. Because of this specific situation in Nijmegen, the Share Your Skills project focused on this group of migrants in Nijmegen to give the chance to get to know the Dutch labour market at a very early stage. In Bielefeld in Germany the situation was different to the situation in NijmegenIn Bielefeld we wanted to recruit migrants who had already reached a certain language level (A2 and above) to participate in the project, so that they would receive an overview of training, work and qualification opportunities in their chosen sector through the individual activities, gain an insight into a German company and, if possible, decide to work in an occupational field with a shortage of skilled workers. Immigrant citizens are also given a sense of welcome and experience that they are valuable to the labour market. All participants had a residence permit.<< Implementation >>During the project Share your Skills we have offered a short and compact education and work orientation track for the migrants in following three fields: Care, gastronomy and warehouse logistics.For every of these three fields we organised following activities:1. An introductory workshop given by a volunteer together with Solid Road/REGE in which the profession was explained and demonstrated in a very practice-oriented way.2. A practical day on site at the company/location together with the migrants and the volunteer and Solid Road/REGE3. A conclusion workshop with the refugees the volunteer and Solid Road/REGE: what training opportunities are there within in the field, which kind of job offers and practical tips how to write an application letter.4. At the end of the track we have offered two individual coaching meetings to the migrants to help further with job opportunities and to finalize the application letter.The whole activities 1 to 4 for the three different fields we have organised two times during the period of 12 months.Our aim was to find workshop leaders as a volunteers with a migrant back ground, so that they also can act as a role model and can explain how they have reached their position within the company.<< Results >>The Netherlands: A total of 59 migrants took part in the project, 39 men and 20 women from 15 different nationalities.About 80 % of the participants have been asylum seekers according to the situation that Nijmegen is housing about 2200 asylum seekers. The biggest group of the participants have been only a short time in the Netherlands (4-12 months). In total 23 migrants joined the training logistics, 15 migrants joined the training care, 21 migrants joined the catering training. 20 migrants took part in the coaching sessions.Germany: A total of 64 people took part in the project, 14 men and 50 women with 26 different nationalities. At the start of the project, 32 people were registered as jobseekers at the local job centre and 24 at the employment agency. 8 participants were not registered anywhere, including 2 female students. During the whole project interest for the training care was extremely high. As a result, we adjusted the planned target numbers for each occupational field. 32 people opted for the occupational field of care, 17 for gastronomy and 15 for warehouse logistics. All group activities took place as planned. The two individual coaching sessions were used by the majority, a total of 97 coachings took place."
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"<< Background >>In both the Netherlands and Germany, the shortage of skilled workers has been a major problem for some time. In some sectors, the situation is particularly serious. In the Netherlands and Germany alike, there is a clear shortage of skilled workers in nursing, gastronomy and warehouse logistics. Politicians, especially in Germany, are striving to use immigration to alleviate the shortage of skilled workers. To support this effort, we developed the project idea for ""Share your Skills"". From the outset, the project aimed to support immigrant citizens in the Netherlands and Germany in their professional orientation and, if possible, to win them over for a professional activity in a sector particularly affected by the shortage of skilled workers. In this way, immigrants are shown career opportunities with prospects and companies are offered new employees to reduce the shortage of skilled workers.<< Objectives >>In 2023, the Netherlands experienced a high influx of asylum seekers, so high that large sites for temporary emergency accommodation were built in several places in the Netherlands. In early 2023, a large emergency reception site was opened in Nijmegen, housing 1,200 asylum seekers in a large tent. In total in 2023 about 2200 asylum seekers where hosted in Nijmegen and close to Nijmegen. Because of this specific situation in Nijmegen, the Share Your Skills project focused on this group of migrants in Nijmegen to give the chance to get to know the Dutch labour market at a very early stage. In Bielefeld in Germany the situation was different to the situation in NijmegenIn Bielefeld we wanted to recruit migrants who had already reached a certain language level (A2 and above) to participate in the project, so that they would receive an overview of training, work and qualification opportunities in their chosen sector through the individual activities, gain an insight into a German company and, if possible, decide to work in an occupational field with a shortage of skilled workers. Immigrant citizens are also given a sense of welcome and experience that they are valuable to the labour market. All participants had a residence permit.<< Implementation >>During the project Share your Skills we have offered a short and compact education and work orientation track for the migrants in following three fields: Care, gastronomy and warehouse logistics.For every of these three fields we organised following activities:1. An introductory workshop given by a volunteer together with Solid Road/REGE in which the profession was explained and demonstrated in a very practice-oriented way.2. A practical day on site at the company/location together with the migrants and the volunteer and Solid Road/REGE3. A conclusion workshop with the refugees the volunteer and Solid Road/REGE: what training opportunities are there within in the field, which kind of job offers and practical tips how to write an application letter.4. At the end of the track we have offered two individual coaching meetings to the migrants to help further with job opportunities and to finalize the application letter.The whole activities 1 to 4 for the three different fields we have organised two times during the period of 12 months.Our aim was to find workshop leaders as a volunteers with a migrant back ground, so that they also can act as a role model and can explain how they have reached their position within the company.<< Results >>The Netherlands: A total of 59 migrants took part in the project, 39 men and 20 women from 15 different nationalities.About 80 % of the participants have been asylum seekers according to the situation that Nijmegen is housing about 2200 asylum seekers. The biggest group of the participants have been only a short time in the Netherlands (4-12 months). In total 23 migrants joined the training logistics, 15 migrants joined the training care, 21 migrants joined the catering training. 20 migrants took part in the coaching sessions.Germany: A total of 64 people took part in the project, 14 men and 50 women with 26 different nationalities. At the start of the project, 32 people were registered as jobseekers at the local job centre and 24 at the employment agency. 8 participants were not registered anywhere, including 2 female students. During the whole project interest for the training care was extremely high. As a result, we adjusted the planned target numbers for each occupational field. 32 people opted for the occupational field of care, 17 for gastronomy and 15 for warehouse logistics. All group activities took place as planned. The two individual coaching sessions were used by the majority, a total of 97 coachings took place."
