EU Skills Profile Tool for Third Country Nationals: Enhancing Integration and Employment Opportunities

1. Skills-related policies FOR IMMIGRANTS WITHIN THE EUUmmuhan Bardak, European training foundation embrace – Seminario di fine progetto 26 June 2019, ILO Training Centre

2. Migrants in the EU: Numbers in 2017 • Total EU-28 population: 511.5 million in 2017 (Eurostat) • Number of third country citizens residing in the EU-28: 21.6 million (4.2% of the EU-28) • Number of people born in a third country but living in the EU-28: 36.9 million (7.3% of the EU-28) • Number of EU citizens residing in another EU member state: 16.9 million persons • Number of people born in one EU member state, but lives in another EU member state: 20.4 million • High variety in migrants’ presence across EU-28: Luxembourg (48%), Central and Eastern European countries (less than 1%) • EU countries hosting the largest shares of migrants in absolute terms: Germany (9.2m), UK (6.1M), Italy (5.0M), France (4.6M), Spain (4.4M) • Education levels of migrants in EU-28: around 25% with tertiary education, 34% with at most completed primary education (unevenly distributed among countries) • In 2016, EU-28 received 4.3 million immigrants, out of which 2 million were third country nationals and 1.4 million were citizen of another EU member state

3. Why integration of third country nationals? • Lower rate of third country nationals are employed compared to host-country nationals • Higher rate of third country nationals had not achieved upper secondary schooling compared to host-country nationals • Higher rate of third country nationals are overqualified for their jobs compared to host-country nationals • Higher rate of third country nationals are in the category of NEET compared to host-country nationals

4. EC Action Plan on the Integration of Third Country Nationals, 2016 • Pre-departure and pre-arrival measures, including actions to prepare migrants and the local communities for the integration process • Education, including actions to promote language training, participation of migrant children to early childhood education and care, teacher training and civic education • Employment and vocational training, including actions to promote early integration into the labour market and migrants entrepreneurship • Access to basic services such as housing and healthcare • Active participation and social inclusion, including actions to support exchanges with the receiving society, migrants' participation to cultural life and fighting discrimination

5. 3. Employment and vocational training

6. EC Action Plan on the Integration of Third Country Nationals, 2016 • European Integration Network: https://ec.europa.eu/migrant-integration/main-menu/eus-work/actions • OECD-EC (2015), Indicators of Immigrant Integration • EC (2016), Migrant Entrepreneurship Guidebook • OECD-EC (2014), Matching economic migration with labour market needs in Europe • SAME (2018), Promoting the economic integration of migrants • Young migrant entrepreneurs project, https://youme-project.eu

7. EU Skills profile tool for third country nationals • Supports early profiling of the skills of migrants and refugees within the EU • Interview tool to get to know individual, their skills, qualifications and experiences • Forms a basis for further assessment, offering guidance, upskilling needs, job-searching and job-matching • A web-based tool for voluntary use and free of charge – completed profiles are exportable as PDF or XML files • Not intended as a recognition or authentication tool

8. EU Skills profile tool for third country nationals • Designed for national authorities responsible for reception and integration of refugees • Available in all EU languages, plus Arabic, Farsi, Pashto, Sorani, Somali, Tigrinya and Turkish • Possible to see two languages at the same time on screen • Try the tool https://ec.europa.eu/migrantskills/#/ • More info https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langid=en&catid=1412 • https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catid=1223&intpageid=5019&langid=en

9. Common practices in the EU Member States • Early assessment of migrant’s skills and qualifications (including formally, non-formally or informally acquired skills) • Early access of migrants to education and training opportunities and/or apprenticeships • Socio-cultural orientation/ introduction programmes for migrants, including intensive language and civic education • Access of migrants to guidance and counselling to help people understand suitable education/ training or career/job options • Access of migrants to general job mediation services for job search, job placement and skills matching

10. Success factors • Host country language knowledge is key for integration, but language instruction could be linked to occupational needs • Employment (or any WBL) is more important than VET training • Customised approach by age, gender, education, economic status is necessary in providing services • Recognition of qualifications and validation of skills beneficial, gaining employers’ trust is the most important • Entrepreneurship and start-up subsidies rarely used, but have great potential among better-off migrants • Coherence between national policy and local implementation, right combination and sequence of support measures

11. A good summary of the EU practices • EUI andBertelsmann Stiftung (2016), From refugees to workers: Mapping labour market integration support measures for asylum-seekers and refugees in EU Member States (REFMISMES) • Volume I: Comparative analysis and policy findings http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/43504/study_fromrefugeestoworkers_2016_vol_1.pdf?sequence=1&isallowed=y • Volume II: Literature review and country case studies http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/43505/study_fromrefugeestoworkers_2016_vol_2.pdf?sequence=1&isallowed=y