VIC aims to validate integration competences of refugees and the impact of integration programmes.
In order to understand the scope of European integration activities for refugees across Europe the VIC partners firstly carried out a survey on existing integration programmes in different European member states.
The results show that most of these programmes relate to linguistic and certain formal citizenship topics. In many cases, there is neither a description of the objectives of the integration programme nor a clear description of the aspired competences within these courses. Therefore, it is very difficult to derive a common definition of what “integration” actually means in each of the courses.
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VIC has officially started in December 2017 with a first partner meeting in Bonn, Germany.
The two-day meeting served to get to know the project and the involved staff members and to plan in further detail the next steps. Currently, the partners are exploring existing integration programmes in their countries in order to destil from them an operational working definition of “integration competence” as basis for the development of the VIC validation approach.