The CMinaR project aims to develop and pilot research-based Higher Education courses that qualify future career counsellors for innovative career counselling and guidance for refugees and migrants. Additionally in-service trainings for career counselling practitioners working in Public Employment Agencies, will equip them with the knowledge, strategies and material to help them in their day-to-day practice for the counselling of migrants and refugees. The Higher Education course and the in-service-training for career counsellors will consist of six elaborated course units.
The development of the course builds on a comprehensive analysis of the needs of the project’s target groups: lecturers, students, career counsellors as well as refugees and migrants. For the needs analysis the partners will combine elements of a qualitative questioning and online focus groups. Moreover, the development builds on the outcomes of a comprehensive analysis of literature, media and resources in the project’s first phase. The CMinaR project aims to tackle the challenge of integrating refugees and migrants into the labour market by bringing together experienced partners from countries that are amongst the most affected by, and that play a key role in handling the refugee crises – Germany, Italy, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Project funding:
The European Union programme Erasmus+
Project results:
The project has 7 intellectual outputs (O) which are related with each other, therefore creates unique results.
IO1 Review of literature, media and resources unique results. The aim of IO1 is to summarize the state of research and development in terms of publications, existing approaches, research initiatives, studies, projects, media, etc. related to the project’s overall topic.
IO2 Needs analysis. It aims at gathering information on the needs, requirements and preferences of the project’s main target groups – lecturers, students and career counsellors.
IO3 Higher Education course – didactical framework and course of 6 units
IO4 Course for counsellors from PES – adaptation of didactical framework
IO5 Media centre and online learning environment: complementary content, material and resources
IO6 Web portal for lecturers, students and career counsellors
IO7 Piloting, evaluation and recommendations for long-term implementation of Higher Education Course. O7 builds on the outcomes of all other intellectual outputs and focuses on piloting, and evaluation of the course in the project’s third year as well as the provision of recommendations for the long term implementation of the HE courses in the partners’ organisations basing on the evaluation outcomes.
Period of project implementation: 2016-09-01 - 2019-08-31
Project coordinator: University of Applied Labour Studies of the Federal Employment Agency
Project partners: Universita degli Studi di Padova, Istanbul Technical University, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kaunas University of Technology, Stokholmo universitetas
