The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, (CEDEFOP) has said that vocational education and training helps to bring migrants into the labour market. On 29 June, CEDEFOP and the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) published a report in support of the new European skills profiling tool for non-EU nationals.
This work is summarised in a six-page note and demonstrates that taking responsibility early is a decisive factor for the successful integration of refugees and asylum seekers. The work undertaken also identifies good practices in Belgium, Germany, Austria, Finland, Norway and Sweden. It also highlights language training, the assessment and checking of migrants’ skills, professional guidance and placement, as factors that play a decisive role.
The report indicates that, “to be efficient, information and guidance should begin as early as possible, ideally, even before migrants reach their destination, particularly within the perspective of their re-settlement in the EU”. In this context, it recommends that member states, “Exchange information on their labour market requirements and put in place an early skills profiling system that helps to improve the matching of skills and requirements for an appropriate and humanitarian distribution of migrants in the European area”. This publication is available at: http://urlz.fr/5wB7. (Original version in French by Sophie Petitjean)