The strategic partnership of this project consists of Slovenian public adult educational organization - Ljudska univerza Nova Gorica, Italian social cooperative- Cooperativa Orso, French NGO - Association pour le Développement des Initiatives Citoyennes et Européennes, Croatian public adult educational organization- Pučko otvoreno učilište Zagreb and Turkish NGO educational/cultural association - Mozaik Kultur Egitim Genclik ve Doga Dernegi, with the common aims and similar development strategies. The most relevant priorities adressed by the project are: contribution to a reduction in number of low-skilled women immigrants and facilitation of the validation of non-formal and informal learning by fostering the assesment of key-competencies, including basic skills and transversal skills (particulary entrepreneurship, languages and digital skills).With that purpose there are different target groups addresed in project activities: women legal immigrants third country nationals as one of most vulnerable groups in EU area, the proffesional staff from partner organizations (trainers) with the aim to upgrade their pedagogical and management skills and some of the key stakeholders (employers, institutions with the direct connection to main target group) for developing the effective connections between education and the labour market.And so the main objective of the project named `I AM AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF MULTINATIONAL SOCIETY` (I'm active) is to promote the social integration of women who are legal immigrant third country nationals, with special intention to integrate them into the labour market. The project also wants to develop the intercultural dialogue between the mentioned target group and other EU citizens. All this was achieved by developing and upgrading the model of good practice of Slovenian partner Ljudska univerza Nova Gorica with the process of identification and validation of non-formal and informal learning and some other innovative elements. To achieve these aims 2 connected intellectual outputs were prepared: (1) Methodology and guidelines for implementation of train the trainers programme (2) Curriculum and recommendations of the programme for promoting social integration and development of intercultural dialogue with women third country nationals (stressing their integration into labour market). To develop those intellectual outputs several activities were implemented, such as 1 short-term staff training programme and pilot implementations of the new programme for immigrant women. 16 trainers participated in the staff training programme which took place in Slovenia. Pilot implementations of the new programme were then implemented in all project partner countries, so there were 5 implementations with inclusion of at 78 women-third country nationals and 27 employers who offered them the work training/ rehabilitation. 5 cultural mediators participated in all programme implementations, providing linguistic and practical support. This activity offered the main target group possibilities of integration in a new environment by respecting their charecteristics and needs. Train the trainer course and pilot implementations played a crucial role in the development of intellectual outputs. There were also 5 final multiplier events organised to help promote good practice and intellectual outputs. The first multiplier event that took place in Turkey was followed by the international project conference in Slovenia and conferences in Croatia, Italy and France.The project helped raise employability of women in Europe in the age between 20-64, especially among those with fewer opportunities by improving the level of their key competencies and skills and thus making them more compatible to the needs of the labour market and society in general. The project enabled disadvantaged groups to take part in lifelong learning programmes, career guidance and counselling. The project followed the main objectives of main European priorities listed in different strategic documents, such as European strategy 2020, EU Education and training strategy 2020, European platform against poverty and social exclusion, Erasmus+ programme, European Qualification Framework for LLL, European agenda for adult learning, PIAAC, The Treaty of EU etc.The project broadened the educational offer of involved organisations by providing a new programme for social integration process of disadvantaged groups on local, regional, national, EU and international level. This is especially important for Turkey as a new EU candidate country.

COCAGNE is a project which brings together 6 European associations working with migrants - whether they have left their country for asylum, medical or economic reasons - or with European and third country populations experiencing different forms of social and economic exclusion. The title of the project was chosen for the symbolism of the Land of Cockaine, a country that offers abundance to its inhabitants. This is the aim of the organisations participating in the project, offering through their actions an opportunity for the accompanied people to live with dignity. The aim of this project is to develop the partners' skills and equip them to improve the quality of services offered to people living in situations of exclusion. To meet this objective, the project partners will analyse their good practices using various tools, identify the reasons for the success of these practices and define whether they can be duplicated in other contexts. This analysis of good practices will also feed into a reflection on how to improve the internal practices of each partner.The participants in the project are 20 members from the partner associations, be they salaried employees, volunteers or administrators. They are involved in the definition of strategy or the implementation of actions aimed at populations living in situations of exclusion and therefore have various professions: lawyers, town planners, architects, social workers, professional integration officers, language teachers, sociologists, project coordinators, advocacy officers, etc. The 6 associations are based in France, Italy, Romania, Poland and Germany (two associations). A field mission led by the project leader will take place in each of the 4 partner countries (Italy, Germany, Romania, Poland) in order to identify the good practices of the partners and to understand their context of intervention. Afterwards, all the partners will meet in France to present in a workshop their respective good practices which will have been detailed in a good practice sheet and according to a jointly defined methodology. A good practice guide will be written from the good practice sheets of each partner. This guide will present at least 24 good practices on the 3 key areas of the partner structures:- Asylum and access to fundamental rights- Vocational and linguistic integration- Support to inhabitants' organisations for the improvement of their habitatFour cross-cutting areas will also be the subject of descriptions of good practices:- Participatory approaches- Gender and equity- Youth- AdvocacyThis good practice guide will function both as a methodological guide and as a tool for reflection on what constitutes good practice in the field of combating exclusion and integrating migrants.The expected results are a better understanding of the European issues at stake in the field of migration and poverty alleviation and of existing procedures, the identification of internal good practices and the analysis of success factors, the identification of areas for improvement of internal professional practices. In terms of impact, the project aims at changing the strategic thinking of partner organisations and improving the quality of services provided to excluded populations, taking into account their specificities, vulnerabilities and aspirations for greater autonomy.

"ReSolution Project""Innovative education and training to develop (re)mobilisation of people far away from employment""CONTEXTIn the European Union (EU), people far away from employment constitute a heterogeneous group in the population, aged from 15 to 64 and their socio-professional integration remains a major issue. In the same way, a large number of structures of occupational integration and training in Europe point out the fact that the public far from labour market is increasingly difficult to mobilise because highly disconnected from the network services able to support them. The project partners from 5 countries of the European Union encounter these same problems in yet different environments : in France, calls for projects on the identification of «invisible» audiences are launched by the state while few innovations on the subject have been recorded. In Italy and Spain, the limited use of socio-professional information spaces by the public questions as well as the volatility of young people with difficulty of integration. In Belgium, people who are distant from employment remain difficult to mobilize, especially in the Brussels and Wallonia regions. In Hungary, the context of economic recovery induces strong recruitment needs in enterprises while a large proportion of the population (Roma) is unemployed and difficult to mobilise.OBJECTIVESThe resolution partners propose to implement a transnational cooperation project on innovative training schemes for a positive (re)mobilization of people far away from employmentThe objectives are the followings :- Enable professionals to acquire new approaches/practices in terms of (re)mobilisation of the public, transferable in the countries involved and in other non-project countries;- Strengthening cooperation between training and socio-professional integration actors.For this purpose, the project proposes the development of several free digital resources for insertion professionals. The subject treated in these digital resources will be : identification methods of publics far away from labour market and innovation in positive remobilisation.PROFILE AND NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS- 40 referents, experts and insertion professionals mobilized to build tools within the 7 resolution partner structures;- 100 professionals from other integration structures mobilized to test the tools;- 225 managers of structures, integration networks, professionals and funders informed of the results of the project;ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGYFour intellectual productions will be produced through an open access digital platform: a toolbox of innovative practices in the area of positive remobilization of people away from employment; a training tutorial ; a dedicated MOOC; an evaluation report providing recommendations for using the created tools.The construction of the tools will be based on internal and external testing. For the external testing phase, they will be carried out by insertion professionals not directly involved in the project, as well as members of the international network Cités des Métiers. The dissemination of intellectual productions will take place through five national mid-term events, an international seminar and a final conference in Brussels.EXPECTED RESULTS AND IMPACTS1- The use of the project tools by at least 20 structures of social and occupational integration2- A minimum of 80% of professionals expressing new skills as a result of the tools testing 3- 8 indirect funding actors in integration field informed and open to support the tools dissemination.4- Transnational collaboration between committed and post-project partnersOverall, the expected impact of the project is the appropriation of the created digital platform by more equipped national and European integration networks and integration professionals on issues of public mobilization.LONG-TERM BENEFITSThe long-term benefits sought are: an adaptation of the integration training offer, with new and easily accessible online content; People far away from employment better addressed and connected to existing offerings in each country."

To meet the up skilling needs of practitioners of counselling for career guidance working in the Cités des métiers, the Cité des métiers International Network wanted to launch the project COCADE “DEveloping CAreer COunselling in integrated spaces”. It is question of taking into account the evolution of the expectations and the needs of people received by the counsellors and other professionals working in the Cités des métiers and in similar places. The digital place in the society, the evolution of ways of working and professions by 2030 shows how important it will be for citizens to adapt their skills and their professional project throughout their life. It is precisely the issue reminded in the resolution of the Council of the European Union of 2004 regarding lifelong training and then New Skills agenda and lifelong guidance” directions published in 2016. The main purposes of this project are to develop at national and European level the offer and quality of career guidance services in “integrated spaces”. It deals simultaneously with the profession of counselling and the animation of open-up partnership in integrated spaces. “Integrated spaces” dedicated to lifelong career guidance are physical or digital spaces that gather different services and resources on lifelong career guidance. The professionals who work there come from education, training and employment sectors and business development; they come from public and also private organizations. Since 1993 with the opening of Cité des métiers of Paris la Villette, the “Cité des metiers” model is the only model to offer such a counselling approach even if similar experiences of one-stop shops for lifelong career guidance have been developed afterwards in other country such as Finland and Croatia. To complete successfully this project of exchanges of practices, the Network mobilized 8 other partners presented in 5 European countries: France, Italy, Portugal, Denmark and Bulgaria. It could have counted on the support of external experts in Finland and Switzerland notably with the Agency for guidance, vocational training and continuing education – OFPC of the Canton of Geneva. The project is based on an empirical approach including different steps: identification, analysis of the practices, development of teaching tools, experimentation then formalization of a non-formal validation process of acquired skills. This project carried out from September 2017 to February 2019 has been particularly rich with the organisation of 4 training sessions (with 2 dedicated to experimentation of a training plan to the profession of counselling) and 6 transnational meetings with each time the opportunity to share practices between professionals. More importantly, it allowed formalizing teaching devices such as the training plan and the repository of skills and design a vademecum of good practices of partnership management, a training module on line and a non-formal validation process of skills for learners. The Network called upon the experience of Learning Digital team to create a training platform on line via moodle.In total more than 90 persons participated into the training actions: counsellors and other practitioners working in the Cités des métiers and other places, teachers/ trainers, new counsellors, people in charge of partnerships etc. All the learners have notably considered that the training have had a positive impact on their own practices and skills. The satisfaction rate is above 80 % for the participants of the training for the profession of counselling in integrated spaces.All along the project, the participants feedbacks have been great and partners are eager to use the trainings’ inputs in the future: “What I am going to keep in mind after this project is the good teamwork, the highly motivated counsellors and the way of working together in a multi-partnership team”; “Our team has learned new concepts and plans to implement in future trainings”; “We use the project as a part of our teaching of classes”;The results of the project will allow the Network to organize each year from 2019 training sessions for the professions of counselling for professionals that are eager to work in the Cités des métiers and in other integrated spaces. This project have also been an inspiration to launch new projects about the development of digital skills and the multi-partnership management for professionals in spaces dedicated to lifelong career guidance.