The main objective of the project is to provide integrated labour market orientation service to asylum seekers. As asylum seekers face a great deal of disadvantages, there was a need to put up a complex service package that includes several training modules that are built on each other.
Therefore our project aims at providing labour market orientation, skills audit, cultural orientation, psychiatric and social counselling, and language training in an integrated and co-ordinated manner.
Two Hungarian NGOs provide psycho-social assistance to the participants while the program runs in an experimental way: two cities, which have reception centres, host four trainings each, covering a total of 80 people, while each training benefits from the recommendations of the previous one.

Our Development Partnership (DP) consists of five partners: Békés County Labour Office (BMMK), Hajdú-Bihar County Labour Office (HBMMK), Cordelia Foundation, ILS Debrecen Langauge School, Menedék – Hungarian Association for Migrants. With the support of these partners, the objectives of our national DP are the following:

• Developing a methodology for the labour market orientation of asylum seekers.
  
• Testing the co-ordination and simultaneous application of integrated services (psychiatry, language teaching, social work, labour orientation).
• Passing on and disseminating professional experiences of the project, both in Hungary and internationally Influencing labour and asylum policies
• Improving the future employment opportunities of asylum seekers participating in the project
• Introducing professionals providing labour services to the special target group of the project, reducing both their prejudices and those of the wider society (e.g. Hungarians using the labour services).

The most tangible achievements of the project in Hungary are planned to be:

• an interactive CD-ROM that contains the results and findings of the project
a methodological manual containing the integrated labour market training

while those in the trans-national partnership (EASI – UK, FAAR – France) shall include:

• guidelines both about volunteering and empowerment
• baseline survey for policy making recommendations

Even though asylum seekers are not authorised to work in Hungary, our team managed to give a chance for some asylum seekers to gain experience in a real professional environment by having them hired as volunteers in an Employment Office.

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Member Agencies of the Development Partnership:

Menedék Migránsokat Segítő Egyesület
http://www.menedek.hu
Tel:+ 36 1 322 1502 Fax:+36 479 0272
Email: menedek@menedek.hu

Békés Megyei Munkaügyi Központ
http://www.bekesmmk.hu
Tel:+36 66 444 211/111m Fax:+36 66 441 221
Email: martinneda@lab.hu

Cordelia Alapítvány a Szervezett Erőszak Áldozataiért
Tel:+36 1 349 1450 Fax: +36 1 239 1332
Email: cordelia.alapitvany@chello.hu

Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Munkaügyi Központ
http://www.hajdummk.hu
Tel:+36 52 507 401 Fax:+36 52 418 229
Email: jaczkutamas@lab.hu

International Language School Debrecen Nyelviskola Kft.
www.ilsdebrecen.hu
Tel:+36 52 520 260 Fax: +36 52 453 937
Email: ils@ilsdebrecen.hu

Involvement in Transnational Co-operation:

Name of Co-operation: EXCHANGES

DP’s Involved:

FAAR , FORMATION, ACCUEIL DES DEMANDEURS D'ASILE ET REFUGIES
https://equal.cec.eu.int/equal/jsp/dpComplete.jsp?cip=FR&national=IDF-2004-43486

"ESÉLY" Munkaerőpiaci orientáció menedékkérőknek
https://equal.cec.eu.int/equal/jsp/dpComplete.jsp?cip=HU&national=26

Empowering Asylum Seekers to Integrate (EASI)
https://equal.cec.eu.int/equal/jsp/dpComplete.jsp?cip=UKgb&national=93