Enhancing social integration and employability of Migrant Mothers

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The Project Mums@Work aims at enhancing the social integration and the employability of Migrant Mothers. Through its design, the project provides tailor-made support to migrant mothers as the main long term beneficiaries, working with them on a case-to-case basis so as to respond flexibly to individual situations, requirements and personal outlooks. The backbone of the project is the delivery of individual and group counselling sessions, combined with the organisation of work experience opportunities. The counselling sessions are aimed at facilitating social integration of migrant mothers and opening avenues for labour market orientation, whereas the work experience opportunities will bring migrant mothers closer to the labour market and economic integration. Furthermore, the project harnesses the power of community by creating strong local, regional and European stakeholder networks in support of migrant mothers. To this end, the project closely cooperates with important strategic partners, as medium-long term beneficiaries, including social support services, in order to benefit from their expertise for the tailor-made support of migrant mothers. The project also engages very closely with employers as medium-long term beneficiaries, in order to prepare them to offer the kind of work experience opportunities that suit the needs of migrant mothers. Throughout the project, a dissemination campaign raises awareness of the situation of migrant mothers, including on the importance of facilitating social inclusion and access to needs-based working conditions for migrant mothers. It is supported by two high profile European Conferences reaching out to a European audience at the middle and at the end of the project. These serve as a platform for networking and capacity building for migrant mothers, the sharing of best practices among project partners and for meetings of experts working towards the integration of migrant mothers on both local and European level.