Erasmus+ · Current

POMEIL, Promotion of Migrant Entrepreneurship andIntegration in the European Labour Market

What if learning to start a business felt like solving a puzzle? POMEIL builds digital escape rooms from real migrant and refugee life stories, turning entrepreneurial skills training into something people actually want to finish.

Project overview

Background

Migrants and refugees arrive with skills, trades and ambition, and then hit a wall of unfamiliar rules, missing networks and unrecognised qualifications. POMEIL maps those barriers to the labour market in the host countries, and answers them not with another lecture series but with game-based, personalised learning. Ukrainian refugees are a particular focus of the project.

Objectives

· Strengthen entrepreneurial and intercultural skills among migrants and refugees through digital game- and simulation-based personalised learning
· Produce a comprehensive competence map aligned with EntreComp, the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework
· Equip adult educators to work confidently with digital pedagogical methods
· Build intercultural capacity among adult educators
· Develop replicable digital assessment and teaching methods
· Build a broad network of relevant stakeholders across Europe

Partners

· Innovation Circle Network (Norway)
· InnovED (Greece)
· SMARTS (Greece)
· MMC (Poland)
· USF (Estonia)

KBT's role

KBT contributes social entrepreneurship education, Norwegian practice experience and experience-based methodology. Project team: Karl Johan Johansen, Ingvild M. Kvisle and Silje Jørgensen.

Target groups

· Migrants and refugees, with a particular focus on Ukrainian refugees
· Adult learners with an immigrant background
· Adult educators and staff
· Organisations within adult education, vocational training, migrant support and integration

Activities

· Focus group interviews across the partner countries
· Development of an EntreComp-aligned competence map
· Digital escape rooms built on real-life scenarios
· Training programme for adult educators
· Partner meetings in Pärnu, Lublin and beyond