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... The Net for Refugees!fluequal work iT!

The Net for Refugees

was a training project:

The participants planned, designed, coded

a Website, filled it with content(more than

200 pages in German, English, Farsi and

Russian) and constantly reflected their work

and their learning.

Furthermore they built up free computer

access points and worked as trainers dissem-

inating their knowledge. By this they gained:

project and self management competences,

intercultural teamwork, presentation and

reflexion techniques and further soft skills

IT knowledgewith an emphasis on Web 2.0-

Technologies incl. online-learning and

collaborative work on the internet

(with so called social software)

abilities to create and edit online content in

German language with a CMS (Typo3)

IT special education according to the individual

focus, e.g. HTML, image editing and graphic

design, video- or podcasting, print typography etc.

The participants got a fulljob-centered coun-

selling and coaching as also the possibility to

achieve individual job-oriented qualifications

and certificates at external educational and training

institutions (e.g. in MAG welding) as furthermore

the occasion to receive ECDL and Austrian Lan-

guage Diplomas and to do work shadowing, in-

ternships and paid community services, too.

fluequal work iT! being completely modularin

its design, the participating refugees, accompan-

ied by their tutors, were able to choose their

own courses and work packages according to

their key interests and job chances. They re-

ceived individual certificates for all achieve-

ments and also information about the costs.

Obligatory for all was only the involvement in

the project planning plenary meetings, as

the project was participant-driven.

Commuting expenses were fully refun-

ded on application, child care for allcourse times organised as required.

fluequal work iT! was realised by the

Diakonie Refugee Service. The pro-

ject was more than 95% funded by

the European Social Fund and

the BMWA (Federal Department

for Economy and Employment).

fluequal workiT!

The Netfor Refugees

Published in June 2007 byfluequal work iT! The Net for RefugeesDiakonie Flchtlingsdienst gem GmbHMag. Rosario PiresLehener Str. 26A-5020 Salzburg * FN 272779x

knot or thread?

number of participantsbudgeted target: 20 actual figure: 59

+195%

career guidance hours takenby participants: budgeted target: 800

actual figure: 2795 +249%course hours takenby participants: budgetedtarget: 4160 actual figure: 10,132

+144%

career advancingindividual external qualificationsoriginal budget: 3000 , actual figure:9804,29 (without administration)

teaching units givenbudgeted target: 260 plus 800counselling units actual figure: allin all 1913.5 (without indiv. qual.)

+81%

+227%

child care expenses duringcourse timeoriginal budget: 3900 , actual figure:15.882.55 (without administration)

for 15 children and 959 hrson 161 days

+307%

refunds of travel expenses forparticipants: 23,359 incl. administration, original budget:32,000 without administration

total budgettarget: 215,091.88 /22 monthactual: 208.639,12 / 24 month(~ 8,700 / month)ESF / BMWA budget only

staff members:

budgeted target: 3,actual figure: 6

-3%

+100%

- 64%

all actual figures are preliminary

(end of May 2007). final figures to

be expected in end of july 2007.

quantitative success realised

especially by extensive inhousing,

extensive voluntary work, extensive

support by salzburg's institutions

and tight financial control

measures.

success inEmpowerment

and ICT

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Rosario J.A.F. Pires

projectmanager

Ramona Kankal

Content

executivemanager

Andrea BaldemairCounselling&Coaching

exe

cutivemanager

Isabella Fink

Counsellor;office

executivemanager

ClimbingHigher

message from Rosario Pires,

executive

A participant writes:

fluequal is a super project!Thank you very much!

This is a great help for refugees for our lives, work, integration.

reached the real limitations, the

boundaries of a universe of possib-

ilities. As a project driven byasylum seekers the project man-

agement has to take into account

their rationalities, their aims, motiv-

ations and their cultural and situ-

ational behaviour. Not everything,

which the board would like to see

done, is also what the group mem-

bers want to see. And vice versa.

Therefore our endeavour was a

real journey into wild waters. It was

a research expedition sent out to

gain knowledge of what is pos-

sible, what is impossible, of what

makes sense and what does not

make sense to accomplish, of find-

ing new ways, new methods, newapproaches.

All qualitative and quantitative data

show, that we can proudly present

this venture as a real success

story. Due to the refugees, due to

the executives and counsellors,

due to your interest. Thank you!

We had a tough start. Compet-

ences, financial meanseverything

unclear. It needed 6 of the 24

fluequal-months to buy the first of

3 computers for this IT-project. It

turned out that the participants,

which we assumed to have some

IT-knowledge as much as some

basics in German (A2), had neither

of it. And so on.

But we met the challenge. Within

two years, we pushed the very lim-

its of our imagination beyond the

known. The last European Policy

Forum in Sweden showed us, that

we are leading in Europe regard-

ing participation, empowerment

and refugees' involvement. We are

at the very forefront of new and in-

novative ways oflife-long learn-

ing and of job-centred coun-

selling. Our involvement with the

IT-community showed us, that we

are indeed bringing the latest ICT

approaches to refugees.

While we climbed higher, we also

fluequalwork iT! with a share of 16% was a minor part of the Equal-Development Partnership fluequal. The other 84% were used by BiBer Bildungsberatung (13%) for a German language

project preceding our project, a community service project by Caritas (32%), mainstreaming and public relation work by Frau und Arbeit and Caritas (16%), coordination and publicity work by

Caritas and Land Salzburg (20%) and 3% Caritas-transnational tasks. Besides this operative partners the Arbeiterkammer Salzburg (employees' organisation), the W irtschaftskammer

Salzburg (businesses' organisation) and 2 counties, Pinzgau and Lungau, were involved as strategic partners. Thus there is plenty of information on the fluequal-DP. If interested, please

contact Land Salzburg, Renate Kinzl-Wallner, or Caritas Salzburg, Gerhard Feichtner. In matters limited to fluequal-work iT! only, please contact the Diakonie Refugee Service Austria,

e.g. via http://fluechtlingsdienst.diakonie.at/ kontakt (upper right). We want to thank especially the Arbeiterkammer , Biber and Frau und Arbeit for their close cooperation and help.

... The Net for Refugees!fluequal work iT!

... s s or o ay s wor p ace

working with differentContent Management

Systems and theirbackends

... the web updated!

... advancing women!

... working locally and together with

... preparing for a career!

... managing the German language!

... research in action!

... empower refugees to:

OpenOffice & MS Office

Windows & Linux

Photoshop & the Gimp

videocasting

podcasting

using Web 2.0 applications for organising, communicating, selfpresenting etc.

blogging

establishing fluequal-work iT!'s own learning platform (lms)incl. telelearning, online-tests, blended learning, constructivist approach,social learning, learning organisation, knowledge management)

ECDL repairing hardware

online-courses and learning with books

email, chat, newsletter, mailingslists, fora, ordering on the net,

writing and editingGerman articles

journalistic research of German and Austrian sources

wiki

media's legal situation

HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP

typewriting

language diplomas up to C1

basic and IT-language-special training

online language courses

prepare and lead group meetings and plenarysessions

teach others

creativity / reflexion / organisation / presentation techniques

teamwork

decide on and realise their own coursesset realistic targets,making flowcharts andplans

formulate visions and missions

set their own priorities

learn projectmanagementacc. DIN 69901

cost transparency

account the project using the Government's databank

learn to evaluate,judge degrees of

completion andcompare

target/performance

... lead!

Bolles parachute

integration counselling

career guidance

secondary school graduationnostrification

internships

further education

education consulting

job application training

trips to workplaces and institutions

job orientation via internet

Europass CV

labor market analysisfinancial support

competence analysis

taxes

self-employment and accountingchild care at any course time

topics from genital mutilation to honour killings

women only-groups

women leading - prioritising - speaking up in public

women's rights as special focus

structured and free learning journals

address refugees as professionals

what are the categorieswith which the work can befundamentally described

what is viable & what makessense for the refugees

trying out new methods

concentrating on innovations

Salzburger Landeskliniken

ABZ

Spektrum

sustainable worksupport the community

buying locally

being ecologically sensitive

AMS/BIZ

Vebbas

Biber

Hilfe und Hobby

Conference Center St. VirgilSubnet

...and many others. THANKS!

Radiofabrik

http://fluechtlingsdienst.diakonie.at/http://fluechtlingsdienst.diakonie.at/