The European project REST – Refugees Employment Support and Training – intends to support efficient integration of refugees and migrants in labour market and offer a comprehensive training to enhance employers’ competences and willingness to hire and integrate people with migration background.
In the past months, the project partners piloted the REST training courses in six European countries covering legal and administrative aspects of refugees’ and migrants’ employment, strategies to support their inclusion in the workplace and management of international work teams.
On the 23rd of October, the partners met in Palermo for their fifth meeting and the final REST conference. The event was dedicated to social and occupational dimension of refugees’ and migrants’ integration where we presented the REST project and its results to over 50 attenders. We shared some real-life success stories of refugees’ and migrants’ integration and discussed good practices from different countries.
During the final ceremonial, we awarded the REST Label to recognise the efforts of local enterprises that has committed to the inclusion of refugees or people with migration background and that promote diversity and an inclusive working climate.
The awarded enterprises were Sartoria Sociale and Moltivolti whose success story is documented in a short video.
About the project
REST – Refugee Employment Support and Training is a two-year-project funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) of the European Union.
Partners
The project partnership holds together eight European partners:
- Landkreis Kassel (Germany, coordinator);
- Die Berater Unternehmensberatungs GmbH (Austria);
- Blinc e.g. (Germany);
- ADICE – Association pour le développement des initiatives citoyennes et européennes (France);
- FOUR ELEMENTS (Greece);
- Catro (Bulgaria);
- Syrian Forum Austria (Austria);
- CESIE (Italia).
For further information
Visit the website rest-eu.org.
Read more about REST.
Contact migration@cesie.org.
