Thematic Working Groups

Thematic Working Groups

Overview

The common objectives of the transnational partnership (comprising Finland, Spain, the Netherlands and Wales ) are to enhance exchange of information and learning from each other in empowerment, integration and promotion to the labour market of immigrants, ethnic minorities and community groups.

The transnational activities will focus around 6 themes, each managed by a working group. Other than meetings, work will be progressed by e-mail discussion groups. The thematic clusters are:

1. Training ( SPAIN )
   
   
   1. Produce a document with the aims, methodology and the contents of the training model applied in its project
   2. Compare training models through transnational meetings
   3. Exchange information and experiences
   4. Establish good practices for beneficiaries’ training.
   5. Adopt innovative approaches tested in other national DPs’ area of work.

   
   (The above activities form the framework for the other 5 areas of the thematic work)
   
   

2. Support: including mentoring, support centre, professional profile of intercultural mediator (THE NETHERLANDS )
   
   

   1. Provide support to beneficiaries, trainers and support centres:
      
      • Define the needs of each beneficiaries group from each national project
      • Ascertain how the support centres are drawn up at a national level, how they are working, which services they offer, how they co-ordinate etc.
   2. Define the role and the professional profile of the intercultural mediator
   3. Establish his/her functions within the national reality
      
   
   

3. Activation: including methods and definition of the social activation, and involving target groups
   
   

   1. Define social activation, and identify best practice that can be applied transnationally
   2. Recommend innovative methods that can improve social activation
   3. Engage in a joint development of social activation methods
      
   
   
4. Empowerment: including volunteering (recruitment & role), building capacity of NGOs and defining their role ( FINLAND )
   
   
   1. Define the role of the volunteers
   2. Formalise the recruitment process of volunteers
   3. Link in the recruitment process to the training brief of the non-profit-making organisations
   4. Design training courses to train NGOs in the field of ethnic minorities and immigrants’ integration
      
   
   

5. Connection to the labour market: including employment niches, connection to the labour market. ( WALES )
   
   

   1. Identify the level of the relationship between immigrants and immigrant associations
   2. Ascertain their awareness/knowledge of developments in the labour market
   3. Establish areas of employment, where immigrants fine a niche in
      
   
   

6. Interactive networks: including improving  interface/connection between communities and public services (FINLAND/SPAIN)
   
   

   1. Identify immigrants’ lack of connection with the public services
   2. Establish effective methods to improve the interaction  between public administrations and the target group
   3. Create an immigrants-beneficiaries co-operation model applicable to every European national reality
   4. Promote continuing co-operation between the beneficiaries and the authorities/public services
   5. Identify innovative methods to involve immigrant associations in service delivery process

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