Objectives
- Identifying the professions/positions within the tourism sector for whom people with migration background are well-suited
- Supporting low-skilled people with migration background in acquiring the necessary hard and soft/intercultural skills and competencies to access the tourism sector
- Assessing migrants’ prior educational path and determining a renewed skillset that corresponds to the existing demands of the tourism sector
- Developing training programmes and materials adapted to the needs of people with migration background and their tutors
- Offering improved career perspectives to people with migration background who work/ wish to work in the tourism sector
- Increasing migrants’ employability in the tourism sector and streamlining it through formal employment channels thus combatting illicit employment
- Enhancing migrants’ integration into EU societies through labour market inclusion
Activities
- Mapping of current job positions migrant workers mostly hold within the tourism sector
- Detailed analysis of the offered training programmes and materials regarding their adequateness to migrants’ educational needs
- Analysis of the gap between offered training programmes and demands of the tourism sector
- Implementing personalized sessions aimed at assessing migrants’ prior learning path and skills regarding the analysed tourism professions
- Developing a self-assessment tool for people with migration background to evaluate their skills
- Design of a consolidated training scheme facilitating migrants’ integration into tourism-related professions and set-up of an online platform
Resources
- Mapping of Tourism related professions where low-skilled migrants are mostly occupied
- Self-assessment tool evaluating migrants’ current skills, competencies and formal and non-formal qualifications in tourism-related professions identifying their learning needs related to the tourism sector
- Training materials to foster migrants’ skills in the identified tourism-related professions/positions
- Online platform incorporating digital learning materials, lectures, “e-classrooms”, interim and final tests
- A training course for low-skilled migrants currently or potentially working in the tourism sector
Impact
- Better career opportunities in the tourism sector, precarious situations and marginalization decreased
- Local communities and micro-economies will benefit from intercultural exchanges and migrants’ workforce
- Migrants’ access to work opportunities and social security will contribute to increasing social security funds
- Migrants’ labour market integration thus collaborating with locals will contribute to overcoming stereotypes and fighting racism
- European common understanding on the necessity of customized training materials and programmes for people with migration background
Partners
- SOCIAL IMPACT GGMBH (Germany, coordinator),
- BK Consult (Germany),
- AKMI Katartisi Ekpaideusi (Greece),
- SYMPLEXIS (Greece),
- IDP SAS DI GIANCARLO COSTANTINO (Italian Development Partners) (Italy),
- CESIE (Italy).