Integrated actions to support labour market integration of asylum seekers
FINAL EVENT
The event
FORWORK aimed at developing, implementing, and evaluating innovative paths to effective integration of asylum seekers and refugees in the labour market. The beneficiaries, hosted in reception centres in Piedmont (Italy) and Albania, were offered mentoring, language courses, vocational training, and support in identifying their skills and looking for a job. In Italy, the FORWORK project specifically targeted asylum seekers hosted in extraordinary reception centres (CAS), who are legally entitled to work but have very limited access to services aimed at labour market integration. The implementation of the project, with 8 partner institutions and 4 associate organizations, took place between January 2018 and September 2021. With the end of the activities, it is time to present the results of the project, evaluate its impact, and discuss what the policy lessons for the labour market and social integration of asylum seekers are.
Agenda
| Orario | Sessione | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:15 | Registration | |
| 9:30-9:50 | Welcome remarks | Raffaele Ieva (ANPAL), Federica Deyme (APL), Miriam Boudraa (ITC ILO) |
| 9:50-10:15 | Conference opening a FORWORK Project – Fostering Opportunities of Refugee Workers FORWORK Project Video | Miriam Toplanska (EU Commission – DG EMP)
Valeria Scalmato (ANPAL) |
| 10:15-11:00 | FORWORK – The Piedmont experience in supporting asylum seeker
Tailor-made support and skill enhancement Reconnaissance des Acquis and Job Coaching to reactivate empowerment processes Companies and mediators: a key role in job insertion processes | a Miranda Andreazza (APL) Giovanna Gangarossa (Inforcoop Ecipa Piemonte) Deana Panzarino (Exar Social Value Solutions) |
| 11:00-11:15 | FORWORK – The Albania experience in supporting asylum seeker | a a Esmeralda Hasani (Adriapol, Smart and Creative development) |
| 11:15-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-12:00 | The impact evaluation of FORWORK Italy | Giovanni Abbiati, Erich Battistin, Paola Monti and Paolo Pinotti (Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation) |
| 12:00-13:15 | Round table
What policies can support the social and labour market integration of asylum seekers and refugees? | a
Tito Boeri (Bocconi University and fRDB), Donatella Giunti (Prefecture of Turin), Massimo Gnone (UNHCR), Stefania Maselli (Central Service of SAI), Maria Perino (University of Eastern Piedmont “A. Avogadro”), Corrado Giustiniani (Journalist, writer, blogger for L’Espresso) |
| 13:15-13:30 | Concluding remarks | Stefania Congia (Ministry of Labour and Social Policies – DG for Immigration and Integration Policies) |
| Light lunch |
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Where
- Turin – International Training Centre of the ILO – Via Maestri del Lavoro 10
- On-line
When
Date: 28th September 2021
Time: 9:00 to 13:30 (CEST time)
Language(s):
Italian and English (simultaneous interpretation)
Registration
Registration will be open to all people interested through the above registration form.
