Ossi2 - Osaajat töihin

The aim of the Ossi2-Employing Immigrants project is to improve the employment of people with a migrant

background. The project seeks to promote a multi-stakeholder approach to find ways to recognise prior learning and to increase their knowledge of the working life in Finland and their professional language skills already during the integration program or other studies. The project partners also support and courage companies to hire immigrants by increasing the language and cross-cultural awareness among the employers and workplace tutors.

The project is executed by Lahti UAS and Salpaus Further Education in cooperation with several companies and

service providers. The main target group are immigrants that lack the knowledge of the Finnish labour market and

working life, whose professional language skills are not adequate or whose prior learning has not been recognised well enough and therefore have difficulties in the Finnish labour market. The secondary target group consists of the

companies that need competent employees but have found it difficult to hire someone with a immigrant background due to difficulties in briefing, which is now made easier by raising the language and cross-cultural awareness among the workplace tutors.