Cedefop

The central element of such a pathway is the matching of skills and qualifications of refugees and the labour market needs in a potential destination country. The matching shall allow refugees to move from a country of asylum to a new destination country in view of employment.

More specifically, the aims of this workshop are the following:

• present the value proposal of the concept of a skills-based complementary pathway for lawful and safe pathways to protection of adult refugees based on matching their skills with labour market needs;
• depend the discussion with the representatives of the participating organizations on the rationale and the functions of the mechanism;
• investigate possible interest of the participating organisations in such a pathway to refugees’ protection and in being actively involved in developing a country specific solution based on the general concept/theoretical framework,
• define the role the participants could play and plan the next steps on how such a mechanism could be implemented in the Netherlands.