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E_EPSOL: Education and Employment Pathways for Speakers of Other Languages
Programme: Lifeleong Learning Programme 2007-2013
Sub-programme: Leonardo da Vinci
Action: Transfer of Innovation
Project Number: 2011-1-GB2-LEO05-05510
Duration: 15/11/2011 - 14/11/2013 (2 years)
Coordinated by: Anniesland College (United Kingdom)
Project website: https://www.e-epsol.eu/ (not operational)
Partners
Anniesland College (United Kingdom) - coordinator
Bridges Programmes (United Kingdom)
36,6 Competence Centre (Poland)
Wisamar Bildungsgesellschaft Gemeinnützige GmbH (Germany)
CO.N.E.CT - COoperation Network for European CiTizenship (France)
Associazione N.E.T. Networking Education & Training (Italy)
Translex Language Services (Ireland)
GRETA Sud Normandie (France)
Project description
This project aims to support immigrants, political refugees, and economically inactive immigrants who face barriers in entering the workforce or engaging in training opportunities in their host country. Building upon the successful implementation of an EQUAL project in Glasgow and West Scotland, the initiative will transfer and adapt an established employment training and education program. This program focuses on individuals who do not have the host country's language as their mother tongue, addressing multiple challenges that prevent their full integration into the labour market. The project seeks to overcome issues such as language barriers, non-recognition of qualifications and work experience from their home countries, and social factors like lack of confidence, employer prejudice, and bureaucratic hurdles.
By translating and adapting proven training modules from Scotland, the project aims to provide participants with the skills and tools necessary to navigate the local labour market. These modules include language training, skills assessment, vocational education, and personal development, with a special focus on empowering women and political refugees.
Objectives
Strengthen Employability: Improve the employability of immigrants and political refugees by providing targeted training and skills development tailored to local labour market needs.
Transfer Best Practices: Adapt and transfer successful training materials and methodologies developed in Scotland to the project’s host countries, ensuring relevance for local contexts.
Overcome Barriers: Address the common barriers faced by immigrants and refugees, such as language proficiency, lack of local work experience, and employer prejudice.
Enhance Integration: Promote the social and economic integration of immigrants, political refugees, and asylum-seeking women into their host societies.
Empowerment and Confidence Building: Equip participants with not only job-specific skills but also the confidence, motivation, and knowledge necessary for sustainable employment.
Target group
Immigrants and political refugees with varying levels of proficiency in the host country’s language, especially those who are economically inactive.
Women, including asylum seekers, who face additional barriers to entering the workforce and need targeted empowerment and support.
Results
Overall results of the project include:
Improved Language Skills: Participants will enhance their proficiency in the host country’s language, particularly for vocational purposes, enabling them to communicate effectively in workplace settings.
Increased Employment Opportunities: Through vocational training and skills development, participants will be better equipped to enter the local labour market and increase their employability.
Recognition of Prior Experience: Tools like the Skills Audit Toolkit will help participants identify and validate the skills and experiences they gained in their home countries, facilitating smoother entry into the workforce.
Empowered Participants: The focus on women’s empowerment and preparedness for the future will build participants’ confidence and equip them with essential communication and teamwork skills, fostering long-term personal and professional growth.
Adapted Training Materials: The successful training materials developed in Scotland will be translated, adapted, and implemented in the project’s host countries, ensuring broad and meaningful impact across diverse contexts.
The project also resulted in the creation of the learning and teaching materials, which were uploaded to the Anniesland College Virtual Learning Environment (VLE):
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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