The importance of recognizing TCNs skills, knowledge and competences in a Diverse Europe presents today little room for doubts. Moreover, there are demographic and labor market reasons that justify the existence of the recognition process and the need to encourage it, both because there are workers that do not have a formal accreditation of their professional skills, and immigrants who in turn would require the participation in recognition processes to enhance their inclusion in the labor market. However recognition is a task full of complexity, as different legal and administrative frames in several countries are confronted at national, regional or local level. At …show more content…
After some pilots experience Spanish and Andalusian legislation introduced mechanisms for the official recognition and certification of professional competencies. TCNs and other immigrants have access to the processes that end with the issuance of Professional Certificates of great useful for the labor market (in charge of the Andalusian Institute of Professional Qualifications, and applying the Royal Decree 112/24). The process begins with the publication of a public call for accreditation. The greatest difficulty which workers from third countries find is that all the accreditation procedure is based on the work experience obtained in Spain. Sometimes a vicious circle of difficult resolution occurs: to provide foreigners with residence or work permits a contract is required, but to hire immigrants also a company requires documented …show more content…
For immigrants who access the system of continuing education for adults a plausible idea would be to develop a vocational training system adapted to their work schedules and oriented to their area of work, or even enlarging the responsibilities of the Continuing Education for Adults in this direction.
5. Even though different problems occur, ultimately, we found interested efforts carried out in the last years by public administrations at regional and level in Andalucía to ease the inclusion of immigrants in the educational system and the labor market, what is a hope for future. Nevertheless, some of the difficulties and actionable aspects found in the report also suppose a big challenge for future.
6. In addition, we propose to make easier the recognition of SKC of TCNs as this would not only result in social improvement of TCNs, but also be an exponent of the ability to host that has the Andalusian or Spanish society as a whole. Nevertheless these goals cannot be confronted alone, as coordinated actions and information inside the country, but also around Europe are necessary to promote better ways for the recognition of SKC, even easing for nationals and immigrants the possibility of having recognized their SKC in a European