RESOURCES ON THE MOVE

2026-07-22

Promoted by a multi-actorial partnership of 13 organizations and institutions belonging to 10 EU countries, RES-MOVE intends to explore the potential of coworking and other collaborative spaces as places for the inclusion of migrant people. The “collaborative spaces” phenomenon (which includes not only coworking spaces but also fab-labs, maker spaces, coworking in public libraries and coffee-shops) is growing in quantitative terms and increasingly represents a very interesting scenario for the labour inclusion of qualified migrants – notably, the four main target-groups of this project: a) Freelance; b) Migrants with craft skills, e.g. in the repair of household appliances, furniture, bicycles and other 'smart mobility' vehicles; c) Start-upper; d) Knowledge workers: researchers, teachers, trainers, cultural mediators, editors, translators, etc. The project proposal will build also upon on the recent experiences gained by coworking spaces in offering free desks to ukrainian refugees who fled from the country in the aftermath of the invasion. Our specific objectives are: • help some coworking spaces (at least one for each of the 11 implementation territories in the 10 involved countries) to become engines and virtuous examples of the inclusion of migrants in their territory, i.e. places of concrete matching between skills, competences and qualifications of migrants on the one hand, and demand on EU labour markets (including labour shortages) on the other hand; • realise (in coworking spaces) innovative pathways to job inclusion that involve at least 1,100 migrants (at least 50% of whom are women); • provide the coworking movement and all interested stakeholders (starting with local authorities) with an operational model, research on its strengths and weaknesses, and the tools to replicate and scale up these virtuous examples; to this end, also establish a Transnational Network of Inclusive Coworking Spaces to ensure sustainability of the project's outcomes.

Greece

2025-10-15