Cedefop’s project on Adult refugee legal mobility seeks to conceptualize and pilot a skills-based complementary pathway that allows lawful and safe pathways to protection of adult refugees by drawing on their human capital potential and labour market needs.

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.

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 Portugal.

Event details

Event Date(s)
28/01/2020
Event Type
Workshop
City
Lisbon
Country
Portugal
Event venue
High Commission for Migration / Confederation of Portuguese Business
Participation
Restricted participation
Cedefop involvement
Organiser

Contacts

Contact
Ioannis Katsikis
Expert - ReferNet coordinator
Contact
Ramona David
Expert