Restoring Respect Project

Founded upon the values of restorative justice, such as power-sharing and involvement in the decision-making, the RRP project wants to give voice to migrants needs by creating, piloting and disseminating an interactive platform and a mobile phone application tailored to the needs and realities of migrant and refugee communities across Europe

The RRP platform and app will not only assist migrants and refugees to gain recognition of their qualifications and thus enhance their employability and integration but also help to address the bias and misconceptions about them.

According to EUROSTAT, in the EU, the unemployment rate for refugees and migrants is two times more than the number of jobless national citizens.

Data have, indeed, demonstrated that most migrants do not manage to use their qualifications and educational background to find a job when entering the European labour market. Migrants, therefore, end up working in an environment completely unrelated to their previous knowledge and skills.

This happens despite the presence of apprenticeships, training, vocational and educational courses and other instruments which want to facilitate the entrance of youths and adults in the labour market.

Most of these tools are partially covering their needs for’ skill identification and recognition, while they do not consider the labour market trends. At the same time, there is a growing perception that migrants and refugees move to new countries to gain benefits and rights they do not deserve.
Their basic human right to dignity and
respect is often violated.

Member States need to adopt more uniform tools and procedures in order to ensure more efficient and effective integration of immigrants into their society, restoring their respect and dignity.

In this context, RRP will create innovative tools (interactive platform and a mob application), which will act as an early intervention program for refugees and migrants (Target Group),
who cannot procure documentary evidence of their qualifications.

This innovative tool wants to put migrants’ need at their heart, be shaped and designed accordingly. A pilot group of migrants will have, therefore, the opportunity to use these tools; their feedback will be at the core of the realization of RRP project.

Officers on the ground using the RRP application will be able to verify their credentials and access an online database of certificates, CVs and skills that will be established through the project.