What is our DRIM?

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After undergoing profound political transformations, the Danube region is now facing diverse demographic, labour market and migration challenges, yet lacks the appropriate multi-level governance support structures, especially in the field of migrants' economic integration. With the goal of achieving cohesion and economic development in the Danube region, DRIM's objective is to enhance the capacity of public institutions for promoting migrants’ economic integration, understood as fair access to employment, work and skills enhancement.

The main result of DRIM – the improved capacity of public institutions to respond to the needs of newly arrived as well as resident migrants through effective information sharing – will be a corner stone of an information infrastructure that will facilitate economic integration in the Danube region. DRIM will achieve this goal through the following activities and outputs: a) a conceptual framework for information sharing and the development of an info tool – DANUBE COMPASS; b) info tool testing (pilot action); c) learning interactions and evaluations to improve, mainstream and disseminate DANUBE COMPASS; d) a strategy that promotes and mainstreams information sharing as a necessary step for migrants' access to employment. The outputs, especially DANUBE COMPASS, are an innovative attempt to respond to the transnational challenges with a transnational approach instead of national information infrastructures. The expected short-term impact is a better response of main target groups (local and national authorities) in supporting migrants' economic integration as well as migrants' – the secondary target group – easier access to employment and renewed trust in public authorities. The long-term change is expected to be the construction of an effective information infrastructure for migrants throughout the Danube region, with corresponding improved capacities of public institutions ensuring smoother integration and through that social change.

Forming shared perspectives on migrants’ integration info streamlining

While the region is confronted with similar challenges there is a lack of shared perspectives among stakeholders on measures and means for migrants’ inclusion into labour markets and employment. Based on available data and capitalisation on previous projects DRIM will create country reports on current efforts in the field of migrantsꞌ integration with emphasis on information access and prepare a selection of best practices, after which a conceptual framework for DRIM will be created.

Mutual learning through transnational info platform implementation

On the basis of shared perspectives, a TN info platform will be created which will serve as the information and learning tool tested in “real-life environment” in public institutions. Through this and extensive learning interactions public institutions will be able to provide relevant information in a more accessible way as well as acquire knowledge how to select and disseminate relevant information thus achieving long term improvement of services for migrant populations. 

Enhancing institutions’ strategic capacities for transnational info sharing 

With the aim of expanding the impact of DRIM and its main tool DANUBE COMPASS from project partners to the region and beyond, a strategy with detailed guidelines for improvement of public institutions' information dissemination in this specific field will be created. Through the endorsement of the Strategy by the influential regional, national and transnational organizations and networks the Strategy will add substantially to DANUBE COMPASS' visibility, accessibility transferability and durability.

 

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