TURKEY – LABOUR-INT

According to the official figures total 1million 652 thousand took refuge in Turkey since April 2011 in 4 years period due to the civil war in Syria. Moreover, 2.4 million Syrians took refuge to or immigrated to countries neighbour to Syria or European countries. 228 thousand of said immigrants and refugees lodged in 22 refugee camps established in Turkey’s 10 border provinces to Syria.

Syrian refugees and immigrants may cause social prejudices with the justification that they cause discomfort. This negative prejudice complicates their social integration. When we foresee that immigrants and refugees are permanent, it is considered that the major problem to be lived in short and medium terms will be integration. Therefore, countries experiencing cases of immigrants and refugees should develop integration projects.

Under these circumstances, this project is designed to deal with immigrant and refugee problems at regional, national and European levels since this activity bears a characteristic to solve prejudice, language, skills and recorded employment problems especially for refugees and immigrants.

In this direction, specific activities will executed in this project for the target group to ease their social integration via vocational and language trainings, in order to break down prejudices against migrants and refugees in the community, to increase their capacities and make them gain self-confidence by preparing curriculum and modules for vocational training and language training and by producing brochures, billboard ads and documentary film by exchanging knowledge and experience from national and European partners and stakeholders with a multidimensional approach.

In this project whose duration is 24 months, coordinator organisation is HAK-IS, a workers’ trade union confederation from Turkey. Partners are Göç Araştırmaları Vakfı (Foundation of Migration Research) from Turkey, IGMG HASENE Relief and Societal Organization from Germany and Conseil de la Jeunesse Pluriculturelle (COJEP) from France.

During the project which is designed on the basis of transnational strategic partnership and its main activities are transnational seminars realized 6 times; 1 kick-off meeting and 4 Immigration Platform meetings. Curriculum and training modules will be tested for the pilot group consisting of 20 persons to be selected from the target group with the project support.

At the end of project activities the aforementioned 1 million 652 thousand Syrian refugees will be effected positively due to the project activities.

Outputs of This Project:

Vocational training curriculum and modules for the Laundry Officer (Level 2) and Scullery Officer (Level 2) having their standards and qualifications will be shall be generated.

The creation of language training curriculum and modules will be 2nd output.

3rd output are visual materials, brochures and billboard materials will be produced to fight against social prejudices

4th output consists of a specific documentary film that will be prepared and shot to break social prejudices and broadcasted on local TV channels.

All materials developed under the project scope will be shared in English language in internet environment and social networking sites. There should be no limit to access all document given in the said media and it shall be open for all internet users.

All results obtained in the project scope shall be available in internet environment and social networking sites and there shall be no limitation to access to results. It is planned for Project web site to be on air in Turkish and English for a period of 5 years.

Regarding impact effects of the project;

Corporate capacity of HAK-İŞ Confederation for the issues of vocational training, employment and integration will be developed for refugees. Best practices gained on site shall be a model for the employment and integration of the refugees. Moreover with the campaign to be developed prejudices of members of HAK-İŞ Confederation for Syrian refugees will be broken.

Consciousness of German and French socities will be developed for migrants and refugees.

With the project, integrated refugees shall be able to be employed in recorded and proper working environments and local prejudices shall be removed by the way of teaching them Turkish and they will be able to express themselves.

Experiences gained with the project for refugees’ integration will reflect to national policies and emergency action plans intended for solution of refugees’ problems will be reviewed.

Experiences gained in national level for the issue of Syrian refugees and studies performed for the issue shall be shared both in European Parliament and in European Commission during the process of Turkey’s EU membership and in the Progress Reports.

All printouts generated for the issue of integration of Syrian refugees will be disseminated in the society wide primarily the actors of employment and vocational training market.

Visual, audio and all broadcasting media, internet environment and social networking sites will be used for the dissemination of project results.

1- Design, Layout and Reproduce of Brochures which will be used to eliminate prejudices
2- Design of billboards which will be a good tool to break down prejudices
3- Billboard Rent Cost
4- Reproduction of VET Modules and Curriculum - 1000 pcs
5- Reproduction of Language Modules and Curriculum - 1000 pcs
6- Scenario, Designation, Shooting and Montage of Documentary Film
7- Broadcasting of Documentary Film on Private TV Stations

Contact person:

Recept Atar,
recep.atar@hakis.org.tr
HAK-İŞ Trade Union Confederation from Ankara - TURKEY
Project website: http://www.siprvet.net/

Social Integration of Refugees through VET