MyHandScraft IO1 - Field Study Research State of the Art Report

My HandScraft - Migrants Hands and Skills to Create a Future Track is a European project funded by the Erasmus + programme – Key Action 2 in the field of adult education.

The aim of the project is to develop a training programme to increase opportunities for the economic and social integration of adult migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

The Field Study Research - State of the Art Report is aiming to analyse the current situation of adult migrants and local adult handcrafters, focusing on the unexplored potential of migrants to improve their technical skills, using the handicraft to trigger a process of collaborative learning and exchange. With a view to achieve this, 2 surveys were designed to carry out:

1. a needs analysis addressed to migrants, to gain an insight of their learning needs and the integration obstacles they faced in their local society and labour market, and of their level of awareness about employment and self-employment opportunities in the local handicraft sector;
2. a skills’ mapping exercise targeted at both migrants and local handcrafters to identify both groups’ handicraft skills in terms of techniques, products, materials and working procedures which can be shared and combined, thus encouraging an exchange between the target groups.

You can find the relevant report below:
Field Study Research - State of the Art Report (English)
Field Study Research - State of the Art Report (Greek)