DRIM
The international project "DRIM" was launched on 1 January 2017 under the Interreg Danube Transnational Program to solve the problems of the integration of foreign workers coming legally into Hungary.
The slovenian lead partnership includes partners from the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, Austria and Serbia, and the consortium is complemented by Bosnian, Czech, Croatian, Austrian, Slovak and Slovenian partners. Hungary is represented in the project by the Central Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency.
The members of this diverse partnership have different experiences in supporting international mobility: some are mainly host countries (Germany, Austria); others are countries with a high emigration rate (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia) and others have a high emigration and immigration rate (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia). Different nations have different experiences and systems for managing foreign workers, which can be shared to help advance the integration of workers.
The main objective of the project is the development of an innovative information tool, the Danube Region Compass, which promotes the integration and employment of those legally entering the country for settling down and working. The development of the Compass, which includes the testing and dissemination of results, is carried out jointly by the partnership, using an international approach. The expected primary results are more efficient functioning of public institutions and authorities dealing with the economic integration of workers, as well as an easier access of immigrants to work and their higher confidence in public services. Nowadays, the project aims to reduce labour shortages in the Hungarian labour market, making easier for companies seeking for manpower to manage and integrate their potential employees.
On 13-14 September 2018, a course on the use of the Danube Compass platform was held in Székesfehérvár for representatives of public institutions brought by the project partners, which will be presented by the Hungarian cooperating municipality in October 2018 in a forum for Hungarian public institutions and authorities.
Project implementation period: January 2017 - June 2019
Project partners:
- LP – Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Slovenia)
- ERDF PP1 – Caritas Academy of Diocese Graz-Seckau (Austria)
- ERDF PP2 – Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia)
- ERDF PP3 – SPF Group, Ltd. (Czech Republic)
- ERDF PP4 – GS gain&sustain OG (Austria)
- ERDF PP5 – Employment Service of Slovenia (Slovenia)
- ERDF PP6 – Center for Peace Studies (Croatia)
- ERDF PP7 – City of Munich, Department of Labor and Economic Development, Local Employment and Qualification Policy (Germany)
- ERDF PP8 – Central Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency (Hungary)
- IPA PP1 – Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (Serbia)
- ASP1 – Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities, Government of the Republic of Croatia (Croatia)
- ASP2 – Department of Integration of the City of Graz (Austria)
- ASP3 – Commissioner for the Protection of Equality of the Republic of Serbia (Serbia)
- ASP4 – The Municipal Authority of Prague-Libuš (Czech Republic)
- ASP5 – META, o.p.s. – Association for Opportunities of Young Migrants (Czech Republic)
- ASP6 – Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (Slovenia)
- ASP7 – Institute for Labour and Family Research (Slovakia)
- ASP8 – Agency for Labour and Employment of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herczegovina)
For more information, visit the project website:
The project is implemented through the Danube Transnational Programme, with the support of the European Regional Development Fund, co-financed by the European Union and the Hungarian State.
Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA, ENI).
