INT.COMP

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• INT.COMP Intercultural Competence Training
• for Trainers and Advisers
• in the Field of Professional Orientation
• A/06/B/F/PP-158.305
• Duration 01.09.06 31.08.08
• Budget 387.777
• Project Presentation

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INT.COMP Partnership

• Bfi Wien Berufsförderungsinstitut Wien
• FIM- NewLearning
• University of Jyväskylä Institute for
  educational research
• EBV - Ente Bilaterale Veneto
• Cescot Veneto
• KTU Kaunas University of Technology
• SPI Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovacao
• University of Pitesti
• Careers Europe

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Specific Aim

• Development of an additional qualification in
  intercultural competence to enrich continuous
  training possibilities and strengthen consultancy
  services in the field of active labour market
  measures, in particular in professional
  orientation for unemployed immigrants.

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Objectives

• Interculturally competent staff
• Different approaches in the consultation process
• View of combating discrimination in training
  provisions and consultancy
• Phase-out of stereotyped thinking
• Improving integration of immigrants into the
  labour market

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Target Group

• Trainers and advisers in the field of active
  labour market measures, especially in
  professional orientation
• Target Sectors
• Education and training institutes
• Social services, information services, etc.

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• Beneficiaries
• Unemployed immigrants
• Organisations, institutions and social services
• Enterprises

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Work Programme

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INT.COMP - Products

• Development of a training programme
• Development of a training manual and training
  material
• Handbook with a collection of life worlds of
  immigrants to show various faces of migration and
  integration
• Implementation of the pilot course
• Build up of a data base
• Establishment of a web portal
• Evaluation reports

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Milestones INT.COMP

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Training Programme

• Structured on a modular basis
• Mixture of soft, hard skill training and direct
  action
• Blended learning units, face-to-face units and
  project work
• Held without exception by experts

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Practice Work The Principle Item A new
Approach

• Research work by interviewing immigrants
• Interviews on the basis of life world research
• Accompanied by a self-perception phase
• Contribution to the handbook on life worlds of
  immigrants

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Handbook

• Consists of interviews on the basis of life world
  research
• Has an accumulative character during project and
  projects end
• Gives a collection on different faces of
  migration and integration

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Training Material

• Consists of
• Material for face-to-face units
• Material for blended learning units
• Immigrant interview guideline

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Training Manual

• Consists of
• Training material
• Description training programme
• Methods
• Use of blended learning units and data base

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Database

• Consists of
• - Blended learning units (hard-skill training)
• - Handbook on life worlds of immigrants
• Available at the INT.COMP web portal.

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INT.COMP - Pilot Course

• Duration app. 3 months
• Start October 2007
• Countries Austria, Finland, Italy and UK
• Participants 10 15 persons
• Documentation/
• Expertise at the end of the course

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Monitoring and Evaluation

• By FIM New Learning University Erlangen
• Experienced in evaluation of national and
  international education projects
• FIM will provide tools for internal as well as
  external monitoring and evaluation

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Innovative Aspects of INT.COMP

• Composition of the training programme
• Life world research within an intercultural
  competence training
• Training by experts only
• Handbook with an accumulative character

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INT.COMP Results - Summary

• Intercuturally competent staff
• Strengthening of consultancy services
• Improving the quality of further vocational
  training
• Combat discrimination through sensitisation
• Strengthen dialogue between target group and
  beneficiaries
• Improving integration of immigrants into the
  labour market
• Spread diversity concept

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• Thank you for your attention !