Job to Stay is used as an acronym for “Sustainable Integration of Low-skilled Refugees into the Tourism Labour Market”. The project seeks to foster the long-term employment of refugees with access to permanent job opportunities. Linking their needs and wishes to work with the enormous staff shortages that Europe’s tourism industry is suffering from is the main project objective. Due to their specific disadvantaged position a particular focus was placed upon female refugees and the increase of their employability.Following this objective, the target groups and participants are quite heterogeneous. From the beginning of the project, partners were eager to use, increase and establish their networks with partners from the social sector, professional associations, labour market services, Chambers, VET providers, SMEs, initiatives dealing with refugees and refugees themselves – mainly women in this case. The project partnership reached the objective through following Intellectual Outputs (IO): • The Job to Stay Job Profiles (IO1) are job descriptions on Level 2 qualification, which is yet not comparably described for the selected job profiles in all countries. For the first time a validation, accreditation and employment model was developed for five selected job profiles in the tourism labour market (Housekeeping assistant, kitchen assistant, assistant cook, waiter in the bar area, landscape management assistance).• Existing career guidance and qualification models still insufficiently consider cultural background and gender-specific life experiences (including physical and psychological violence before or during the flight) of women and their special needs and requirements in terms of VET and placements/employment – Job to Stay developed a career guidance and mentoring model tailor-made for female refugees (IO2 and IO3)• The Job to Stay Qualification Pass (IO2) so far is the one and only truly comprehensive tool that can be used as assessment procedure for employers and refugees themselves. It is a unique combination of already existing EU-Tools such as Europass CV and CEFR and tailor-made assessment procedures for non-formal and informal learning. • Neither EQF-based description of knowledge, skills and competences nor the accreditation of informal and non-formal learning is widely known or actively applied within the partner countries (with the exemption of FR) - Job to Stay demonstrated the advantages of these instruments and methods in connection with the accreditation of refugees’ prior learning experience and with their uncomplicated and quick long-term integration into tourism labour markets.• Another core outcome of the Job to Stay project was a work placement which was closely monitored and shadowed by all partner organisations. 47 mainly female refugees were integrated into the labour market successfully, afterwards providing individual solutions for a further professional career with the majority of them. Basis for this success is the “Team of Buddies” that was created by the Job to Stay project. The project team developed a tangible product to guide employers, refugees, social associations and social workers through this project phase. This Guideline (IO3) can be used by any target group or stakeholder who is dealing with the integration of people with a migrant background. • For the last two years, the project partners established (partly) completely new networks and gained many experiences. Especially the work with the “Team of Buddies” brought forth very intimate impressions and personal perspectives on the situation of (female) refugees in the partner countries. For this reason, the partnership wanted to share all experiences and lessons learnt during project implementation and recommendation. The Job to Stay Green Paper (IO4) deducts all experiences for all parties involved, and offers recommendations for policy makers at local, regional, national and European levels in particular. It contains 23 EU projects dealing with a same approach and therefore represents the first publication of such comprehension. The official end of the Job to Stay project serves as a beginning of new activities and approaches. For example, the partnership got the feedback that especially the Job to Stay Qualification Pass (IO2) should be used on a national basis substituting the local documents and therefore ease the process of assessment (for formal, non-formal and informal learning). The project works together with the Chambers as well as other VET providers to follow this approach. Further on, the second Intellectual Output could be used for other sectors apart from the tourism industry. Especially the care sector is warmly welcoming such results and seeking for such tailor-made solutions. The partnership of Job to Stay is eager to continue the project’s idea and plans to repeat the placement phase once more as also more refugees wanted to take part in this.

"BE PART - FEEL YOUR PART (""BPFYP"") was a two-year Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Project, coordinated by Jugend am Werk Steiermark GmbH (Austria) and implemented in partnership with Municipo de Lousada (Portugal), FO-Aarhus (Denmark), Volunteering Matters (United Kingdom), Jugendförderverein Parchim-Lübz (Germany), A.R.E.S. scarl (Italy) and E.N.T.E.R. GmbH (Austria). The initiative was aimed at increasing the political and social participation of young people, especially those at risk of social exclusion, on local, regional, national and European levels. The partners engaged with youth workers, volunteers, trainers and other stakeholders, to support young people’s political and social participation as active citizens in their communities and on the regional, national and European levels.The project was based on statistical data that showed that the participation rate of young people in political decision-making and in societal discourse are low and on research that revealed that (a) the situation, pereception and participation rate in democratic and political processes is quite low amongst young people at risk of social exclusion, marginalisation and suffering from social or socio-economic disadvantages and (b) political participation starts with proximity, first and foremost at the local and regional levels, where young people get a chance to see the direct impact of their involvement and have the chance of participating in a small-scale democracy. The activation and use of social environmental resources was identified by the partners as an important support factor to tackle social exclusion and socio-economic disadvantages. Bearing in mind the aim to support a wider and deeper participation of young people (at risk of social exclusion), the BPFYP partnership decided to: (1) identify relevant social environmental resources of young people at risk;(2) identify social environments and spaces of young people in society (on local or municipal levels);(3) identify interfaces between the social environments of young people vs. the adults' environments;(4) provide youth workers, young people and political decision-makers with methodologies to support this identification and interfacing process;(5) define and carry out local action projects within the common social environment interface to make the impact of political/social participation visible.In order to achieve their objectives, the project partners developed and implemented four intellectual outputs: (IO1) BPFYP Research Report on methods and tools used in social spaces analysis. (IO2) BPFYP Training Curriculum for youth workers, a 40-hours' training programme to enable them to implement social environment analysis and local participation projects with young people (at risk of social exclusion). (IO3) BPFYP Local Participation Projects with young people (at risk of social exclusion) in all partner countries, including a transnational project reader. (IO4) BPFYP Political Action Plan, featuring opinions, needs and requirements for political action to improve democratic participation of young people (at risk of social exclusion) at local, regional, national and European levels. These outputs were supported by a multiplier event, a transnational learning/teaching/training activity and pilot courses in all partner countries. Furthermore, the partnership identified two main target groups: (1) Youth workers in the partner countries who support the integration processes of young people (at risk of social exclusion) and who work with this group on a daily basis. (2) Local political decision-makers who needed to be integrated in the project activities as the representatives of the adult environment and who were necessary to achieve democratic participation of the young people. In addition, the project was addressed towards the group of final beneficiaries: Young people who are at risk of social exclusion or marginalisation due to socio-economic or other disadvantages and aged between 14 and 19 years in the partner countries AT, DE, DK, IT, UK, and PT.The project partnership consisted of seven experienced organisations from AT, DE, IT, DK, UK, and PT. All partners are experienced in the work with the topic and the project target groups. Consisting of youth centre organisations, volunteering organisations, municipalities, and training organisations, the partners provided their experiences and expertise for the devlopment of the intellectual outputs and the practical implementation of the various activities within these outputs. The partnership reflected the different stakeholders and interest groups in the subject and represented a sound European geographical balance, which allowed for an added value from the point of view of the European dimension."