Rationale

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The idea of integration focused on foreigners is relatively new in the Czech Republic. The Governmental Conception of Integration is designed only for recognised refugees and consists of Czech language course and the possibility to obtain "an integration flat". None of the social policy instruments reflects the need of an employment integration of recognised refugees and foreigners with permanent residence.
DP considers the possibility to enter the job market as a key point for successful integration of foreigners. However, current situation is that labour offices do not offer systematic approach to this group of job applicants. Some NGO´s have been carrying out several partial projects focused on support of job opportunities of refugees and foreigners, hence, the main problem is that these projects are not implemented systematically. Based on the long time experience we are convinced that a project that will find a comprehensive solution of the issue is ultimately needed.
DP consists of NGO's that are experienced specialists in providing wide range of services to foreigners. In effort to implement and test the conception of systemic support at all levels, we felt the necessity to extend the DP to other subjects such as public administration institutions, academia, representatives of foreigners and their organisations. Considerable advantage of such a partnership is the possibility to incorporate the project results to governmental migration policy.
DP will develop methods leading to improvement and innovation in systemic support of foreigners on the job market and shape the content of future integration courses as well as work on their incorporation into the Governmental Integration Policy. Partnership will also bring the issue of migration to a public discussion.

Objective

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General aim of this project is to implement a system of a complex support aimed at proliferation of job opportunities of recognised refugees and foreigners permanently residing in the Czech Republic.The partial aims are designed according the needs of specific target groups:
The prime target group-foreigners:
- Analysis of the job market situation in regions, market offer and demand, offer and demand of foreigners
- Development of a flexible model of systemic support of equal job opportunities. The model will reflect individual needs of clients and will be applicable for the use by other institutions. Partial aims in the context of building this model:
a/ Designing the content and methods of basic and specialised language courses, cultural – social orientation courses, job integration courses, IT courses etc.
b/ Establishing a system of individual plans, skill audits, individual plans (e.g. dealing with employers).
c/ Modification of course methods and contents due to specifics of all participants -special interest will be paid to those with special needs.
d/ Testing the effectivity and applicability of the model on a sample of 50 clients (correction of content and methods if needed).

The aim of the project is to limit or remove barriers for foreigners entering the job market, such as:
- Language barrier –The project offers introductory and specialised Czech language courses as the 150- hours Czech language course provided as a part of the Governmental Integration programme is available only for recognised refugees. Foreigners with other type visa do not have access to this or similar course.
- Insufficient orientation in legal and social environment, barrier from cultural diversity when looking for employment. We will create courses/workshops of social-cultural orientation and we will offer individual assistance.
- Barrier caused by the lack of basic skills (e.g. PC skills). We will create PC work courses.
- Missing documentation about education, qualification and previous work experience, long and complicated procedure of their recognition, diversity in work customs and traditions. This problem will be solved by the offer of individual assistance, participation in social-cultural courses and job integration.
- Barrier imposed by the length of asylum and visa procedure as foreigners are not allowed to work during this period. The difficulties, resulting from living in a new environment, lack of activities and uncertain position, lead to the decrease of motivation, lost of self-confidence, disability to act and make important decisions and dependence on social help system. The courses of employment integration, motivation and individual assistance will improve this situation.
- Barriers of groups with special needs (those who were granted humanitarian asylum or humanitarian permanent residence permit, elderly people, single mothers, illiterate people etc.). Specific needs will be addressed by the individual assistance and courses tailored to their situation.

Partial aims are focused on mainstreaming activities as well as public and local administrators, NGO´s workers, employers and public:
- Mainstreaming – to implement the model of systemic support aimed at proliferation of job opportunities of recognised refugees and foreigners into migration and employment policy of the Czech Republic.
- Improvement of communication within DP in the terms of looking for and maintaining of the employment and establishing the integration policy.
- Improvement of methods of social services provided by NGO´s, capacity and skills building of workers.
- Improvement of the level of information about employing foreigners among employers and improvement of their attitudes towards foreigners.
- Reducing xenophobia and intolerant tendencies among Czech public by information campaign

Innovation

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The uniqueness of proposed conception result from the following aspects:
1.There will be created comprehensive and systematic approach for the integration of foreigners that will reflect their specific position when entering the job market.
2. The system will be tailored to meet the individual needs and potential of clients such as language knowledge, area of residence, age, family situation, possible handicap etc. This means that the system will be based on individual work with clients.
3. Special attention will be dedicated to vulnerable groups which represent considerable part of foreigners population in the country, however, in reality are excluded from all recent projects due to their handicaps.
4.Language courses will be specially designed for foreigners with various levels of knowledge of languages.
5. Courses will be tailored to satisfy the specifics of foreigners including language as well as socio-cultural differences that are the sources of obstacles when entering the job market.
6. Conception of integration will be created in co-operation of NGOs, state institutions and experts from the field. DP will develop recently non-existing communication channels connecting all subjects engaged and will create firm platform for their co-operation in the future.
7. Within the framework of conception building we will test the conception in practice and will evaluate feed-back from our clients whose representatives will be directly involved into the conception building.
8. The project will provide the opportunity for the detailed monitoring and comprehensive analyses of the situation and needs of foreigners in the perspective of their integration to the job market.
9. Active co-operation with state institutions will ensure the possibility to participate on formulation of state integration policy and to integrate new and generally applicable methods into integration courses.
10. There will be created methodological proposal of integrated system of evaluati

Budget Action 2

500 000 – 1 000 000 €

Beneficiaries

Empowerment

 With beneficiaries

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recognized refugees in the Czech Republic
permanent resident foreigners in the Czech Republic
long-term resident foreigners in the Czech Republic
state administration and local-government employees
public
NGO employees

 Between national partners

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Society of Citizens Assisting Migrants
Center for Integration of Foreigners
Organization for Aid to Refugees
Labour Office Brno - City
Labour Office Brno - regional office
Dept. of Foreign Languages (Masarych University, Brno)
Ministry o Labour and Social Affairs
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Association of Refugees
Most pro lidská práva
Genderové informační centrum NORA

Transnationality

 Linguistic skills

• čeština
• English
• français
• slovenčina (slovenský jazyk)

 Percentage of the budget for transnational activities

• 6.0%

 Transnational Co-operation Partnerships

Background

 Involvment in previous EU programmes

• Nobody involved in A&E

National Partners

Agreement Summary

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The focus of TCP PEOPLE (DP PRESTO - Great Britain, DP GENIA - Germany, DP MIGRA - Italy, DP HEDERA - Czech Republic) is to reduce the labour market exclusion of refugees and migrants through innovative and effective partnership working.

Common products forseen:
- A transnational webpage
- A comparison and development of methods assesing skills and prior experience of beneficiaries will be progressed by relevatnt organisations within the individual DPs.
- A common resource of labour market information for migrants to the four partner states will be established
- Comparison and development of integration strategies for refugees and migrants at a regional and national level
- Comparative reports of common themes in the partnership (to be developed by transnational partners over the lifetime of the project)
- Events to share best practice on defined themes of:
a. Employment advice and guidance (methods of assesing prior skill, qualifications and experience, skills audits)
b. Integration strategies
c. Equal opportunities
d. training (transcultural aspect of training)
e. Employment rights and working with employers

Sdružení občanů zabývajících se emigranty

Contact person(s)

Asociace uprchlíků v České republice

Centrum pro integraci cizinců

Contact person(s)

Genderové informační centrum NORA o.p.s.

Masarykova univerzita v Brně - Centrum jazykového vzdělávání

Contact person(s)

Ministerstvo práce a sociálních věcí

Ministerstvo školství mládeže a tělovýchovy ČR

Contact person(s)

Most pro lidská práva

Organizace pro pomoc uprchlíkům

Contact person(s)

Úrad práce Brno - město

Contact person(s)

Úrad práce Brno - venkov

Contact person(s)

Hedera