How can employers contribute to refugees’ integration to our society? What are the benefits of employing refugees and asylum seekers? Where and how can employers recruit international talents? And how to effectively manage their work integration?
REST project offers responses in a comprehensive training programme dedicated to employers who wish to enhance their competencies in employing refugees and people from different cultural background.
The first training courses took place at CESIE, Palermo, in May and June 2018. The participants were introduced to the Legal and administrative aspects of refugees’ and migrants’ employment, learnt about the incentives and types of contracts applicable and discussed their questions with an expert on refugees’ integration.
The second and third meetings were dedicated to Recruitment and Selection of international talents and strategies of On-boarding and Management of international teams.
After the summer break, REST training will continue with the topics of Mentoring, Intercultural aspects of workplace integration and Communication at workplace.
Who can participate?
- All employers and managers who intend to deepen their competences in the field of labour market integration and innovative management of human resources;
- Representatives of associations active in the field of refugees’ integration, job agencies and other professionals in the field of labour market integration.
Besides, competences dealt within REST Training Modules are important for all employers and HR professionals who want to keep up with globalised working world, benefit from international talents and adopt innovative approaches. On that note, we invite also employers who haven’t experience with refugees’ employment but wish to learn more about diversity management, inclusive organisational culture or mentoring.
REST in progress
Piloting of the REST training courses takes place in all 6 partner countries reflecting different national contexts. At the occasion of the fourth transnational meeting in Athens on the 3rd and 4th of May, project partners shared their experience and discussed the differences in stakeholders’ attitudes and needs. Conclusions drawn from the piloting together with success stories of workplace integration from all partner countries will be presented to the public during the Final Conference on the 23rd October 2018 in Palermo.
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.
