Promoting Work-related Immigration and Spreading Good Practices in the EU

The purpose of the REKRY-AMARE project is to support the employment of academically trained immigrants and immigrants with other valuable skills, to study and create flexible qualification channels, to study the preconditions for successful recruitment and to utilise the good practices of other EU countries, especially in recruiting immigrants with higher education and in utilising their expertise.

Partners: University of Helsinki, Palmenia Centre for Continuing Education, (Lahti and Kouvola), HAMK University of Applied Sciences, Päijät-Häme Employment and Economic Development Office, Heinola Employment and Economic Development Office, Kouvola Employment and Economic Development Office, GEKO- Association for European and Local Politics (Berlin, Germany), Adam Mickiewicz University, Centre for Migration Studies (Poznan, Poland), GEMS Northern Ireland Limited (UK, Belfast), Dublin Ballymun Job Centre (Dublin, Ireland), Jaan Tõnisson Institute (Tallinn, Estonia)

Time of implementation: 1.6.2010-31.03.2013

Funding: The project is funded by the European Social Fund, the Häme Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, the HAMK University for Applied Sciences, the City of Lahti, the City of Kouvola and the Lahti unit of the Palmenia Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Helsinki.

More information:
Mattias Spies, project manager
University of Helsinki
Palmenia Centre for Continuing Education
Kirkkokatu 16
15140 Lahti, Finland
+358 50 3175547
mattias.spies@helsinki.fi

More information (in Finnish) on the REKRY-AMARE project is also available from Palmenia’s internet pages, as well as from HAMK’s pages.

The project’s brochure can be downloaded in English and in Finnish.