In-company training
Stage/Step 1: Interviewed participants (about qualifications, interests, motivation, expectations)
Stage/Step 2: Finding places and companies for the practical work. When possible, it is advisable to choose such organisations/ companies that will enable the participants to actually use their skills and develop them.
Stage/Step 3: Preparing trainers/mentors for in-company training. Trainers/mentors take care of all administrative and organisational issues.
Step 4: Employers should be given all important information about the participants (their previous experience, knowledge and skills, communication skills in the local language, eventual/possible impairments etc.) that may have influence on the course of the training
Step5: Creating individual plans for each participant so they can perform various tasks and enlarge their social network throughout the in-company training. Step6: Providing in-company training. The optimal length of the training is around 2-3 months. This period allows the participants to gradually become a part of the team, build competences, improve communication in the national language, break their daily routine and build social networks.
Pedagogical Information
This method is part of specially prepared curriculum. Short-term staff training program (train the trainer course) was prepared as an intensive educational program for 15 future trainers from partners organisations who were prepared to work with legal migrant women by special developed curriculum for migrants. This program lasted for 5 days and participants have strengthened their professional knowledge and skills with new teaching methods like dealing with prejudice by world café method, how to make personal education plan, guidance, informing and counselling, learning to learn competence, NLP methods and techniques – practical tips for classroom use, identification and validation of informal and non-formal learning – tools, in-classroom use of ICT tools and materials, interculturality and key characteristics of migrant learners, practical tips for classroom use: sustainability – a universal topic, detailed instructions for pilot implementations of the program.
Partners have made a curriculum proposal that served organizations as a basis for adapting the curriculum to their needs and the needs of migrants. This curriculum consists from seven modules such as learning of the official language of the country of residence, introduction of the EU and country of residence, organised sightseeing and field trips, workshops on integration into the labour market, ICT workshops, organised visits to institutions and employers, in-company training. The duration of the program is 80 hours of theory and 80 hours of in-company training, that enables them to apply newly acquired knowledge in order to help them have better social integration and integration to countries labour market.
European Dimension
Method is focused to develop skills and some European values related to employability and social inclusion. These dimension are important for all EU citizens, but they are most important for social integration of immigrants.
On the other side, solidarity of all EU citizens is important for social inclusion. This method is focused to solidarity of employers and employees form host country.
Applied in projects
I am an Active Member of Multinational Society (I'm Active+)
Project I am Active strived to achieve two main intellectual outputs: methodology and guidelines for implementation of training the trainers programme and curriculum and recommendations of the programme for promoting social integration and development of intercultural dialogue with women third country nationals – stressing their integration into labour market.
Partners have made a curriculum proposal that served organizations as a basis for adapting the curriculum to their needs and the needs of migrants.
