The project will produce a comparative scientific paper analysing the integration of the low-qualified humanitarian migrants in partner countries. The goal of the research is to demonstrate how the current integration processes is organised in terms of existing policies and practices as well as their impact on the target group.

“INTEGRASS” is a toolkit to assess formal, non-formal and informal knowledge, competence and skills as well as the education level of the humanitarian migrants.

INTEGRASS will propose two kinds of assessment tools:

• Formal education assessment tools
• NF/IL assessment tool

INTEGRASS will also contain a user guideline to ensure the proper exploitation and use of the toolkit by stakeholders outside the project’s consortium and beyond the project’s lifetime.

The toolkit can be used by migrant service providers and counselors at employment services to determine the education level and to assess the knowledge, competence and skills of refugees at formal, informal and non-formal levels. The toolkit will be available online and in digital form.

In all European countries there are several agencies offering services for migrants, tackling social and labour market integration steps. Provision of such services requires an in-depth knowledge of administrative and legal procedures of the host countries, but also a proper understanding of cultural differences in order to better communicate with customers. Through project ARIVE, migrant service provider staff (career counselors, employment offices, adult education providers and NGOs working with integration of refugees) will take part in an integration course that will build on their existing language and cultural skills, adding specific competences and knowledge with the objective of creating effective Service Providers in relation to migration. More specifically, the Migrant Service Provider will reunite in one figure the skills of intercultural mediators with knowledge and competences of career counselors and service managers.

The Curriculum Handbook will embrace 2 parts:

1. UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS of low-qualified migrants for better service provision by Migrant Service Provider.
2. COUNSELLING AND TRAINING MATERIAL FOR LOW-QUALIFIED MIGRANTS as a first step in integration process.

Toolkit for the Validation and Quality Assurance of the Curriculum will be developed as a methodological support for training and counseling of low-qualified humanitarian migrants. It  is the final step in the holistic approach for social/labour market integration of humanitarian migrants:

1. Validation of formal and informal competences through INTEGRASS
2. Training courses to empower the individual and cover learning gaps
3. Development of individual action plan based on validation and training

EU-wide guidelines will be developed with a set of recommendations and best practices focused on successful integration of low-qualified humanitarian migrants. The report will provide practitioners and policy-makers with useful information for the design of employment integration policies that better respond to the capacities and needs of low-qualified refugees.

The guidelines will be presented to regional/national governments and the Commission at the end of the project. It will be also available on the websites of relevant authorities in partner countries.