TEFI TCA – id. code 3919 Final report INDEX INTRODUCTION I ...

TEFI TCA – id. code 3919the BQV agency as explained in I,4). The second focus are trainingand job finding activities for unemployed migrants. Up to now(September 2006) more than 300 unemployed migrants have beentrained in six month courses, 20% of them found a job in the firstlabour market. In addition 21 vocational training opportunities foryoung migrants have been created, more than 90% of them inmigrant enterprises.As I am the author of the German report for evaluation (I,4), I wantto be brief in commenting it. What seems to be obvious, however, isthe fact, that the German report provides more concrete informationabout procedures, cooperation partners, strong and weak points thanthe other TEFI partners did.d) The Lithuanian approachThe Lithuanian paper (I,1) does not say much about the Lithuanianapproach, and also the information about the activities of theLithuanian DP are rather succinct. We learn from the report that „thefirst big social research since 15 years“ has been conducted „todiscover social problems of national minorities“. The findings are notreported. In addition cooperation networks are created in the fields oftourism and culture in two different regions (Vilnius and Salcininkairegion). The purpose is to create jobs in these fields for nationalminorities. How this is done in concrete, is not reported. 40The limitation of the employment policy on tourism and culture 41 washowever criticized during the mainstreaming seminar I held in early40 During the Braunschweig meeting (26./27.10,2006) the Lithuanian colleagues reportedabout a third activity: qualifying NGO leaders and „very successful round tables withpoliticians“ as a mainstreaming activity (successful in which respect? WF).41 The concept of culture remains unclear; is it more than folklore?Final report 257