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Valuing diversity: guidance for labour market integration of migrants

Table 8 Secondary case studies

Cléf de France (Key Offers to newly arrived migrants who face difficulties in finding
of France), France employment and/or housing at their current place of residence,
the possibility to start their integration process in another region
where they will have better access to employment and housing
facilities. Guidance activities to support mobility include
awareness-raising workshops, individual interviews, advice,
vocational training, and networking with employment and
housing actors to implement mobility plans. Migrants are
followed-up after relocation. The project is evaluated yearly.
Evaluation includes: number of households relocated by the
project; number of workshops/interviews organised; number of
reception centres participating in the project; number of
professionals trained in the framework of the project. Funding:
European refugee fund and national state funding.
More information at: http://www.france-terre-asile.org [accessed
3.4.2014].

Cellule stages Offers support to secondary (or equivalent) immigrant students
(Internship Cell), who are potential targets for discrimination in their search for
France internships. The programme is supported by a network of firms
Club d’entreprises Face Lille Métropole and by the City Council
of Roubaix. Guidance activities involve schools, and comprise
development of CMS (CV, interviews, social competences),
assessment of aspirations and barriers, information on
internships, personal planning. Funding: City Council of Roubaix.
More information at: http://www.ville-roubaix.fr [accessed
3.4.2014].

NOBI, Germany NOBI is a regional network supported by IQ network, which aims
to enable the recognition of professions developed abroad, the
development of standards for complementary qualifications to
achieve full recognition, and intercultural training for public
bodies or labour administrations. Guidance activities include
information, advice and support in procedures leading to
recognition of regulated professions/ qualifications. NOBI also
cooperates on the development of the standards with the
Chamber of Skilled Crafts Hamburg. Other activities include
intercultural training for counsellors in job centres and
agencies in Hamburg and Kiel, networking of organisations to
support business start-ups by immigrants, professionalisation of
immigrant organisations. NOBI evaluation is external and
includes qualitative interviews at management level and field
research. Funding: Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
More information at: http://www.nobi-nord.de/ [accessed
3.4.2014].

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