DIVERSE – Descrizione del progetto e materiali

Grant Agreement No. HOME/2012/EIFX/CA/CFP/4248 CUP H42113000030004
30-CE-0586564/00-20

DIVERSE
Diversity Improvement as a Viable Enrichment Resource for Society and Economy

Partners:

WWELL Research Centre, Università Cattolica di Milano (scientific coordinator) (Italy)
Anolf Lombardia (Italy)
Associazione Menedek (Hungary)
Commission for Filipino Migrant Workers (the Netherlands)
Federazione Regionale Lombarda S. Vincenzo de Paoli (Italy)
Fondazione ISMU (Italy)
Karlshochschule International University (Germany)
Nuova Università di Lisbona (Portugal)
Radboud University (the Netherlands)
Universitàdi Huelva (Spain)
Università di Lodz (Poland)
Università di Umea (Swedwn)
Università di Tartu (Estonia)
Università di Waasa (Finland)

Direct Beneficiaries:

Third Countries Nationals, Organisations of the civil society, Local communities of 10 EU countries (Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden)

Overall Objective of the Project:

Promoting a new effective model of integration through the enhancement of multi-stakeholder practices able

♦ to foster Third Countries Nationals equal treatment
♦ to valorise their Skills, Knowledges, and Competences (SKC)

As a resource for the social, economic and institutional development

Theoretical Assumptions:

A need to rethink to the Third Countries Nationals integration model in the EU characterised by:

♦ an over-emphasis on the economic and working dimension, conceived as the key one justifying Third Countries National workers’ presence in the host countries
♦ a tendency to collectively represent Third Countries Nationals work and economic role in terms of an asymmetric complementarity with autochthonous labor, a perception which is fuelled by, and simultaneously favors, immigrant concentrations in specific, mainly low qualified, job sectors.

An implicit tension between the economicism implied by EU members states’ systems of entry regulation and the principles of solidarity and equal opportunities

Three Broad Domains of Engagement:

♦ Advancing the valorisation of Third Countries Nationals’ formal, non formal and informal skills, knowledges and competences (Skills, Knowledges and Competences), with particular reference to those linked to their migratory background
♦ Increasing awareness of the advantages provided by Diversity management practices in different kinds of organization
♦ Supporting Third Countries Nationals’ role as  prooactive individuals, favoring the expression of their potential in both the economic and the civil spheres, with a particular emphasis on their contribution to voluntary non-profit organizations

 DIVERSE aims:

♦ To inquiry and simultaneously promote, in a set of regions belonging to 10 countries, multi-stakeholder practices of valorisation of the Third Countries Nationals’ potential for the social, economic and institutional development
♦ The basic assumption is the awareness that a real and sustainable change in the attitudes toward Third Countries Nationals, able to valorise their potential, needs the active involvement of different stakeholders and the implementation of different kinds of action
♦ A special focus will be put on the relationship, in Third Countries Nationals’ experience, of ethno-national diversity with other differences, particularly those related to gender and age, in order both to monitor the risks of intersectional discrimination and to identify new policies and procedures enabling to activate and enhance Third Countries Nationals’ involvement and participation
♦ Throughout the project, a particular attention will be devoted to initiatives, suggestions and evaluations developed by Third Countries Nationals’ associations

Expected “Tangible” Results:

• WP 3. Filling the Knowledge Gaps and Providing a Shared Platform

  ■ It intends to fill the knowledge gaps and provide some shared points of reference about 3 crucial issues:

  ♦ Third Country Nationals’ formal, informal and non formal Skills, Knowledges and Competences, with a special attention to those linked to their migratory background
  ♦ Diversity Management practices implemented by profit, public and non-profit organizations
  ♦ Third Country Nationals’ direct involvement in voluntary non-profit organizations

  ■ Development and testing of research methodology and instruments; sharing the methodology and instruments with partners involved

  ■ Data collection and analysis of practices of Third Country Nationals’ Skills, Knowledges and Competences recognition, through desk analysis and 50-100 interviews (5-10 in each country) to leading experts, local actors, representatives of consulates/embassies

  ■ Data collection and analysis of practices of Diversity Management, through 100 case histories (2/3 interviews for each case history; 10 cases for each country)

  ■ Data collection/analysis of experiences of Third Country Nationals participation in voluntary organizations, through desk analysis and 50-100 (5-10 in each country) interviews to leading experts, local actors and Third Country Nationals associations

  ■ Writing of 10 country reports and of 10 policy briefs (1 for each country). See the section “National Reports”

  ■ Identification of key variables and actionable levers for each issue considered, through a comparative analysis of the country reports.

• WP 4. Stakeholder Map and Third Country Nationals’ Skills, Knowledges and Competences Recognition

  PARTNERS Involved:

  ♦ WWELL Research Centre, Catholic University, Italy (UCSC)
  ♦ Fondazione Ismu
  ♦ Karlshochschule International University, Germany (KIU)
  ♦ New University of Lisbon, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Portugal (FCSH-UNL)
  ♦ Radboud University, Netherlands (SKU)
  ♦ Umea University, Sweden (UMEA)

  ■ It is aimed at strengthening synergies among different local actors in a common effort to generate and validate an innovative tool for the recognition of Third Country Nationals’ Skills, Knowledges and Competences, especially those related to their migratory background, drawing on the conception of TCNs as transnational actors who can offer a contribution to the economic and social development

  ■ It will encompass the involvement of various key actors (e.g.: public bodies, firms and their representative bodies, unions, non-profit organizations, Third Country Nationals’ associations, embassies and consulates representing major Third Country Nationals communities, career and employment consultants, intercultural mediators)

  ■ Sharing guidelines and instructions with partners involved

  ■ Constitution of a work group in each country, through the identification of the most relevant stakeholders

  ■ In each country, designing of a provisional multi-stakeholder audit scheme for Third Country Nationals’ Skills, Knowledges and Competences assessment, through 3/5 work sessions, aimed at sharing experiences and know-how

  ■ In each country, testing of the locally constructed audit scheme through the administration to 10 TCNs and the subsequent collection and evaluation of opinions, judgements and suggestions

  ■ Writing of 5 brief reports, one for each country

  ■ Construction of a common audit scheme through the 2nd partners meeting aimed at discussing the provisional schemes and at identifying common guidelines

  ■ Writing of 5 policy briefs, one for each country

• WP 5. Activation of Third Country Nationals as Participants to Voluntary Non-profit Organizations

  PARTNERS Involved:

  ♦ Anolf Varese – Associazione Nazionale Oltre le Frontiere, Italy (Anolf)
  ♦ Commission on Filipino Migrant Workers, Netherlands (CFMW)
  ♦ Federazione Regionale Lombarda, Società San Vincenzo de Paoli, Italy (S. Vincenzo)

  ■ It will be aimed to enhance Third Country Nationals’ civic participation by promoting and supporting their activation as providers of services delivered by voluntary non-profit organisations

  ■ In explicit accordance with a logic stressing reciprocity, a particular focus will be put on Third Country Nationals already assisted by these organizations due to their vulnerable situation

  ■ In each country, WP5 will entail the activation of 50 Third Country Nationals selected on the basis of their competences, potential and past experiences trough an activity of tutorship and verification

  ■ Sharing guidelines and instructions with partners involved

  ■ Briefing session with volunteers and staff of voluntary non-profit organizations to be involved

  ■ Selection among the Third Country Nationals assisted by voluntary non-profit organizations of at least 100 TCNs (50 in each country) and formulation of the proposal of volunteer work

  ■ Implementation of tutorship and verification service

  ■ Writing of 6 brief reports (1 for each unit/territory) on the experience and process activated

  ■ Sharing of the experiences through the 3rd partners meeting

  ■ Overall analysis in order to identify the key variables and actionable levers, through the analysis of the 6 local reports

  ■ Writing of 3 policy briefs, one for each partners involves

• WP 6. Awareness-raising and Diffusion through a Multi-lateral and Participatory Approach

  PARTNERS Involved:

  ♦ WWELL Research Centre, Catholic University, Italy (UCSC)
  ♦ Karlshochschule International University, Germany (KIU)
  ♦ MENEDEK – Hungarian Association for Migrants, Hungary (Menedek)
  ♦ New University of Lisbon, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Portugal (FCSH-UNL)
  ♦ Radboud University, Netherlands (SKU)
  ♦ University of Huelva, Spain (UHU)
  ♦ University of Lods, Poland (UL)
  ♦ University of Waasa, Finland (LEVON)
  ♦ University of Tartu, Estonia (UTARTU)
  ♦ Umea University, Sweden (UMEA)
  ♦ Federazione Regionale Lombarda, Società San Vincenzo de Paoli, Italy (S. Vincenzo)
  ♦ Anolf Varese – Associazione Nazionale Oltre le Frontiere, Italy (Anolf)
  ♦  Commission on Filipino Migrant Workers, Netherlands (CFMW)

  ■ To reinforce the basic assumption underlying the whole project and the actions encompassed by it; i.e., that, in order to trigger a sustainable change oriented to overcome the weaknesses and contradictions of the current European model of integration, we need both to resort to different kinds of action and to activate the interrelated and co-generated contributions of an array of diverse social, institutional and economic stakeholders

  ■ This multilateral and participatory approach is inherently consistent with the basic logic of sustainability. On the other hand, it reasonably fuels the expectation that further shared value will be generated after the end of the project, due to the collective learning produced through the incorporation of different resources and perspectives in common action and the pursuit of benefits from it for all the interested parts

  ■ Organization of 3 awareness-raising seminars in each of the 10 countries, involving the most relevant stakeholders, aimed at presenting the results of WP3 (and WP4 where relevant). See the section “Awareness Raising Seminars”

  ■ Organization of 1 awareness-raising seminar in each of the 2 countries, involving other voluntary non-profit organizations, aimed at presenting the results of WP5

  ■ Diffusion of 18 policy briefs addressed to social and institutional actors and the media in all the countries involved

  ■ Writing and diffusion of 1 e-book presenting all the initiatives carried out and their implications for the different actors concerned

  ■ Final open conference with the participation of a representative for each partner of the project

  ■ Every other initiative suggested and implemented by the partners

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