Business Sector :
Upskilling for meaningful employment in a shifting economy
What’s happening now?
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Advanced Course in Innovation
and Leadership
A next-generation acceleration program for 29 aspirational women with refugee and migrant backgrounds to access meaningful employment in the corporate sector and accelerate its evolution.
What happened before?
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A next-generation fellowship program for creating future-proof newcomer talent
CITM equipped 20 refugees and migrants with next-generation skills for an accelerated pathway to meaningful employment.
Certified by Ecole des Ponts Business School, run in collaboration with L’Oréal
Why do we do this?
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Women with refugee and migrant backgrounds are grossly under or misemployed. The employment rate for refugee women is on average 45%, compared to 62% for refugee men and 51% for other non-EU born women.
At the same time, when refugees find employment, almost 60% of employed tertiary-educated refugees in the EU are overqualified for the jobs they occupy, more than twice the level of the native-born and also well above the levels for other migrant groups.
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of PLACE program participants are refugees or asylum seekers
%
of learners have gained innovation skills exceeding industry standards for the future of work
learners in PLACE programs since 2017
%
of learners receive training-of-trainers and train on average 30 more people through PLACE
PLACE is working towards 5 Sustainable Development Goals
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Build with us
We’re working together to transform the business sector. Your organization can contribute to this systemic change – drop us a line.
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