WELDI baseline report

Network meetings
22 Feb 2024 Fundão (online TEX): Access to decent work
Access to decent work - introduction to Fundão context
Local cases of labour market exploitation and strategies on
tackling it
The special case of middleman systems in agriculture and
how to break them
Experience with tailored training to migrants to work in the
local economy (Fundão, Liège)
The role of the social economy as intermediary for
placements (e.g. for refugees).
How to address the bottleneck of the recognition of
qualifications?
Potential input/preparation:
▷ ULG input: local situation on labour market exploitation and ways to
tackle it
▷ Host presentation on work with employers to guarantee fair working
conditions and tailor-made training for newcomers to work in
agriculture and forestry
▷ Input on initiatives on clean labour regional certification of agricultural
products (tbc)
▷ Input on work with socially committed employers
▷ Background on EU framework for the recognition of foreign
qualifications, national best practice
▷ WELDI-Survey on specific local bottlenecks regarding recognition
encountered in WELDI localities
▷ Background on state of play on revised EU single permit directive for
economic migrants
Feb 2024
Advocacy group kick-off meeting
Refining WELDIs advocacy agenda and its interaction with
learning and communication activities.
Potential input/preparation:
▷ Align advocacy topics with WELDI communication plan as well as with
agendas of EU institutions and city networks
Feb/Mar 2024
Kick-off meetings (online):
WELDI transnational researcher group
WELDI transnational experts by experience group
- Define research agenda and how it can feed into the
project
- Define potential links between the two groups
Potential input/preparation:
▷ Connecting interested ULG members with groups
▷ Launch brainstorming process on objectives via shared document prior
to the meeting
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