Cross-border cooperation on mentoring and peer support for immigrants

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

The main objective of the project is that through project activities and exchange of experience between project partners the quality of integration of immigrants will be improved. For achieving the objectives and planned results the project aims to organize a mentor programme for immigrants and diversity management activities within the companies for enchancing a better social inclusion of people with immigrant background and raising awareness of the diverse workplaces among companies. As a result the conditions of the target group will be improved. All project activities are developed and carried out in close cross-border cooperation since it requires very accurate and up-to-date understanding of the needs and requirements of the situation in the field of integration in both countries. The cooperation will be very beneficial for both sides since Finnish partner will share its best practice on mentoring of immigrants and Estonian partner will contribute its expertise in developing a peer support that suits specifically Estonians living in Finland. Additional value of the project is a diversity management among involved companies in both contries. The specific objectives are: 1. Through project activities and cross-border exchange of experience between project partners the quality of integration of immigrants will be improved in both countries. 2. Through cooperation activities new contacts and common cross-border cooperation network in the field of integration between partner countries has been created.

Achievements (EN):

CROSS - minority integration in Finland and Estonia: Project CROSS focused on the integration of the Russian community in the Ida-Virumaa region in Estonia and that of the Estonian community in the Helsinki region in Finland. The project targeted unemployed members of these communities. The project implemeted a mentor as well as a diversity management programme. Both programmes aimed at the integration of the target communities. Altogether the project involved 86 people including mentors and mentees.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R4.1. Communities with improvements

Expected Outputs (EN):

As the result of the project communities who are dealing with immigrants are developed and improved to more coherse and socially inclusive societies:• inceased knowhow about the differences in integration and multicultural work and about new methods of integration work.• better pre-conditions to prevent marginalisation and alientation• counteract discrimination and exclusion between immigrants by increasing awareness• creation of new networks and interfaces, stronger dialogues between project direct participants/immigrants, organisations/employees. Also problems related with immigrants unemployment has decreased and sustainable mentoring system has been developed.Positive integration of immigrants in the affected region with the help of the participating broad networks and compentence within voluntary work among other things.In addition to that, participating countries have better knowledge to implement other EU fundings. Analysis gives wide information that is usable and valuable in the future as well when other intergation projects are developed.

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Labour market and employment Social inclusion and equal opportunities

Specific Objective: More people benefiting from stronger Central Baltic communities

Thematic Objective: (10) investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing education and training infrastructure

Investment Priority: (10 ETC) ETC specific, for cross-border cooperation: investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing and implementing joint education, vocational training and training schemes

Partners (2)

Lead Partner: Integratsiooni Sihtasutus

Address: Lõõtsa 2a, 11415 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.meis.ee/eng

Total budget: EUR 97 348.71

ERDF budget: EUR 82 746.40

Föreningen Luckan r.f.

Name: Föreningen Luckan r.f.

Department: Luckan Integration

Address: Simonkatu 8, 100 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://luckan.fi

Total budget: EUR 76 948.60

ERDF budget: EUR 57 711.45

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Cross-border cooperation on mentoring and peer support for immigrants

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Summary

Project name (EN): Cross-border cooperation on mentoring and peer support for immigrants

Project acronym: CROSS

Project start date: 2016-04-01

Project end date: 2018-05-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 174 297.31

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 140 457.85

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 140 457.85.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

137 / 137 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

663 / 663 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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Cross-border cooperation on mentoring and peer support for immigrants

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