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Valuing diversity: guidance for labour market integration of migrants

offers essential information allows the user to locate private
and public services. It also provides information about the
most important innovations in legislation, institutional
initiatives, and activities undertaken at national, regional and
local levels. The project is jointly financed by the European
fund for the integration introduced under the coordination of
the Directorate General for dellImmigrazione and integration
of policies (Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali).

Project website: www.integrazionemigranti.gov.it [accessed
3.4.2014].

Orientatión formativa y Non-profit organisation AMIC provides guidance services to
laboral (AMIC) immigrants in Catalonia, with the primary aim of enabling the
(Vocational guidance for recognition of their qualifications and support further
Immigrants), Spain professional development. Guidance activities include
information about available training options, the labour
market, legal requirement to work, CMS development, skills
assessment, career development planning, job search
support. Follow-up during the full recognition process is also
provided. There is cooperation with municipalities to support
family reunification and the integration of women and youth.
Staff have training and experience in relevant areas,
including mediation and immigrant issues. The service is
reportedly designed to be fast and non-bureaucratic, to
facilitate the quick integration of immigrants. AMIC is an
NGO connected to the trade union UGT. The services are
provided in the context of Barcelona Services for Immigrants
and Refugees (SAIER) which also includes the Red Cross,
the Bar of Attorneys, refugees associations, the residence
permits service and language courses providers.
Project website: www.associacioamic.cat [accessed
3.4.2014].

Bildungstreff oberes The main purpose of the ‘meeting point’ is to provide a free
murtal (Education access career support service to at-risk groups, with special
Meeting Point Upper emphasis on migrants and older workers. The services and
Murtal, meeting point for activities have broad and open access and are not
information and career mandatory. Guidance activities include individual counselling
guidance for migrants), in several languages, multilingual collective information
Austria sessions, and workshops on the training system, history and
culture of the receiving country. Awareness raising
workshops are developed near to the project partners,
resorting to experts with immigrant background. Approaches
are adapted to group typology (women, youth, low-skilled).
The project is led by an NGO specialised in multicultural
guidance – ZEBRA – and relies on a network composed by
training centres, women associations, PES, German
language providers, social support organisations, hospitals,
guidance centres and regional administrations.
Project website: www.stvg.com [accessed 3.4.2014].

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