Author: The New European
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The Juncker Plan: Past, Present and Future
The decrease of EU investments following the global economic and financial crisis has demanded collective and coordinated efforts at European level to reverse this downward trend and put Europe back on track of economic recovery. To this end, the Investment Plan for Europe, the so-called Juncker Plan, aims to encourage investment in order to create…
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Digital Revolution and Global Development: An ongoing Process
Over the last decades, the world has been witnessing a real digital revolution. This new reality is reshaping people’s approach to everyday life, professional relations, public institutions functioning, roles within the international arena. Digitalization is also transforming global development strategies and becoming an essential tool for growth: accessing digital technologies and the internet is not…
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Diaspora organisations as development agents
Diaspora organisations can be an important tool in development cooperation. This is why more and more EU governments are adopting measures to engage them. Agreement on their effectiveness, though, is lacking.
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“The secret of integration is to work hard”. The story of Gurung
The New European has entered a partnership with the IOM and its program Skills2Work. In the course of some weeks, these pages will showcase some of the success stories from the EU countries participating to the program and taken from the digital platform FromSkills2Work. The second article of the series is dedicated to Gurung, from…
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From refugee to self-employed: the story of Ferry
The New European has entered a partnership with the IOM and its program Skills2Work. In the following weeks and months, these pages will showcase some of the success stories from the EU countries participating to the program and taken from the digital platform FromSkills2Work. The first article of the series introduces the story of Ferry,…
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Fromskills2Work: good practices in labour market integration
Skills2Work is an EU-supported project focusing on labour market integration of recognized refugees in Belgium, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Employers play an essential role in the integration of refugees. The Skills2Work project explores the benefits and challenges of recognising migrants’ skills, knowledge and competencies; and subsequently recruiting…
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“A chain is just as strong as its single links” Interview with Osman Kimil
Osman Kimil, founder of Unipack, has taken the initiative to start a program of hiring refugees in his company in Germany: thanks to his New European background, he was able to quickly grasp what refugees have gone through in their lives. We interviewed him to know more about this project and his life.
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Mentoring for migrants: integration of migrants into the Austrian labour market
“Mentoring for Migrants” is a unique project launched by the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in 2008. To date, nearly 1.800 mentoring pairs have been formed, and numerous mentees have already gained a foothold on the Austrian labour market, not least thanks to support from their mentors.
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Harnessing the skills of migrant workers in Sweden: the case of Entry Hub and Randstad
One of the most recent initiatives sponsored by Randstad in the field of sustainability and integration is Entry Hub, a Swedish project that aims at creating physical spaces where refugees and immigrants can exchange knowledge and build new skills, while being in contact with potential employers. Read our interview to know more about the project.
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All «Together» for World Refugee Day
On World Refuge Day, held every year on June 20th, the world commemorates the strength and courage of these millions of persons forced to flee their homes and the compassion of those welcoming them. It is the perfect time to show that public opinion is behind these forcibly displaced families and to highlight the many…