SMARTY

SMARTY intends to improve the working practices of operators working with adult migrants aged between 20 and 50 in fragile conditions due to socio-economic conditions, gender, cultural background who need to focus on their resources and potential. Operators are the final beneficiaries, while adult migrants are intermediate beneficiaries. The needs analysis highlighted several challenges for operators in the orientation process, such as:

• Difficulty in assessing adults' competencies due to the lack of effective tools.
• Challenges in boosting migrants' self-esteem, motivation, and autonomy.
• Staying updated with new digital and non-formal evaluation methodologies.
• Feeling overworked and lacking time for idea exchange and the use of new technologies.
• A need to explore best practices for assessing vulnerable adults from other countries.

For adult migrants, the analysis found that they often have low self-esteem, little awareness of the importance of transversal competences, and lack user-friendly, multilingual digital tools for skills assessment.

The SMARTY project aims to create a digital-friendly assessment tool for the 12 European key competencies for guidance practitioners. It helps migrants recognize their competencies for future educational, social, and employment opportunities. The project provides practitioners with digital tools and methodologies to enhance support for adult migrants.

SMARTY’s objectives include:

• Developing the SMARTY application with updated evaluation tasks reflecting real-life situations for migrants.
• Promoting a digital culture within partner organizations and improving practitioners' skills in migrant reception and evaluation practices.
• Providing migrants with tools to recognize and value their skills for better social and labor integration.
• Fostering collaboration between partner organizations to sustain project results.