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MOBILITY vs MIGRATION
The project aims at promoting mobility, which means helping workers to overcome the many obstacles that continue to stand in their way. Mobility of workers plays an important role in creating new job opportunities. In fact, on the basis of the Lisbon strategy and according to the 2005 Spring European Council, mobility should be considered as one of the main elements that contribute to increasing the labor market and to support sustainable development and social cohesion.
The project MOBILITY vs MIGRATION, submitted under a specific call for proposal launched within the 2006 European Year of workers´ mobility, aims at raising workers and employers awareness on the opportunities offered by the implementation of the free movement of workers within the European territory, as well as at informing European citizens on workers´ rights and on the instruments to support mobility existing within the EU. This objective will be achieved through many activities.
One of those activities consists in realizing a Guide to serve as a support tool to students approaching a traineeship period abroad, as it will give some tips on how to properly afford this experience. A wide session of the Guide will be dedicated to the European legislation on free movement of workers and self employed, while another will focus on the coordination of social security systems, as the students, which are the target of the project, are going to move into workers. The Guide will also offer an overview of students´ and workers´ fluxes among the countries involved in the project, while the conclusion will focus on positive impacts and effects of mobility as they are perceived by students and workers.
The conclusion will be drawn on the basis of the results of a survey to be submitted to students and companies. The survey will also serve to create a database collecting students, who experienced or would like to experience a EU mobility programme, and companies, who recruited or would like to recruit students from outside their countries. The basic idea is to create a link among the labor market, represented by the SMEs from the partner countries, and the Universities who are going to select the students. This stronger link will create new mobility opportunities: three or four students will be offered the opportunities to make a pilot experience abroad.
Lastly, three round tables are expected to take place in the three countries of the project partners (Italy, Czech Republic and the United Kingdom) not only to promote the project and its activities, but also to listen to the voice of the very people who experienced mobility. The round tables will be therefore opened to graduates or post graduates who experienced a EU mobility programme and to companies who recruited or are willing to recruit foreign workers. Both of them will be given the opportunity to tell about the positive and negative aspects of their experiences, the challenges they had to face, the professional skills they learnt or taught. In this way, as Europe´s future prosperity depends on the ability of its workforce to respond and adapt to change, we hope that the experience deriving from the project will suggest European citizens positive ways of approaching mobility.
For further information about the project, please contact Euro Info Centre IT378,
tel. +39 041 0999411
europa@eurosportelloveneto.it.
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