My chance in Poland

Project

1 Jan 2021 - 31 Jan 2022

Labour, Migration and Social Policies

Agnieszka Kulesa

Izabela Marcinkowska

Joanna Starczewska

Oskar Chmiel

Date:

1 Jan 2021 - 31 Jan 2022
Project duration:

01.01.2021 - 31.01.2022

Agnieszka Kulesa

Lead Social Sciences Researcher
Agnieszka Kulesa has been working at CASE since 2018. She specialises in the labour market, international labour migration, and migration policies within and outside the European Union.

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Izabela Marcinkowska

Labour market and social policy Director
Dr. Marcinkowska's areas of expertise include the labor market, social policy, and employment. As President of the Management Board, Dr. Marcinkowska is responsible for managing all research and projects in the areas of demography, labor, and social policy, overseeing CASE’s financial administration, and spearheading new business development activities. Dr. Marcinkowska has been cooperating with CASE since 2005, and has participated in numerous Polish and international technical assistance and research projects, including the multi-year MOPACT (Mobilizing the Potential of Active Ageing in Europe) Project, funded by the European Commission’s DG on Research and Innovation; NEUJOBS – Employment 2025: How will multiple transitions affect the European labor market, also funded by the European Commission’s DG on Research and Innovation; the Study on the effects and incidence of labor taxation, funded by the European Commission’s DG on Taxation and Customs Union, and Assessing Needs of Care in European Nations (ANCIEN), funded by the European Commission’s Health Cooperation Program. Dr. Marcinkowska obtained her PhD in Economic Science on Informal Employment from the University of Turin. She holds an MA in Economics from the University of Warsaw and an MA in Economics from CORIPE Piemonte in Turin. She has published extensively in the fields of labor economics, social policy, and health economics.

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Joanna Starczewska

Training Specialist
Joanna is a psychologist and a trainer. She is responsible for CASE training projects

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- Fact or Fiction: Developing Inquiry and Critical Thinking Skills in Youth
  Our mission is to inspire youth aged 12-19 to practice intelligent disobedience—doing what’s right despite pressures. Our main objective is to equip adolescents with the skills to confidently navigate the rapidly evolving digital environment and develop key competencies and digital resilience for independent functioning in adulthood. The project will be based on the participatory approach to ensure our workshop scenarios are evidence-based and address the real needs of today's youth and educators. Outputs’ testing and implementation will equip participants with essential critical thinking skills for navigating a complex online world. On-site and international online multiplier events will ensure widespread dissemination of our activities and results, amplifying the impact among adolescents and educators. Participants will explore social impact, cognitive biases, and topics like economics and online culture, sharpening their ability to distinguish facts from opinions. Educators will gain insights into digital education tools and strategies for nurturing students’ CT and information verification skills. Deliverables include 18 CT workshops for youth, supported by a report with themed scenarios and exercises for integrating CT skills into daily lessons.
- FUTURE FOR ALL – Advancing Cross-Generational Collaboration through Futures Literacy (FFA)
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Oskar Chmiel

Senior Social Sciences Researcher
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Project name: My chance in Poland

The grant is implemented under the project “Chance – new opportunities for adults”, within Priority Axis IV. Social innovations and transnational cooperation, Measure 4.1 Social innovations of the Knowledge Education Development Operational Program 2014-2020 co-financed by the European Union from the European Social Fund.

Objectives of the project:

As part of the project “My Chance in Poland”, an innovative support model for foreign nationals with basic skills will be developed and tested. The aim of the model will be to improve skills in understanding and creating information, mathematical reasoning, digital skills and social competences.

Foreign nationals are an increasingly large group on the labour market in Poland. At the same time, activities aimed at improving their skills are not undertaken in a systemic and innovative way. The innovativeness of the model will consist in the comprehensive support of this group through a combination of training and mentoring as well as the selection of innovative training methods.

Main activities and products:

The testing of the support model will cover a total of 80 foreign nationals with the right to legal employment in Poland. These will be people over 25 years old from Warsaw and the surrounding area, who have basic skills in the areas of understanding and creating information, mathematical reasoning, digital skills and social competences.

The model will offer support at three levels: educational, advisory and psychological. The educational support, which will benefit all participants, will take the form of theoretical and practical training. Their aim will be to raise the level of skills of the participants. This process will be strengthened by counselling and psychological support. Each participant will be supported by a tutor or supervisor whose task will be to work on the motivation of the participant. Their relationship will draw on mentoring practice and will include coaching, development assistance and guidance. The psychological support will benefit those participants who wish so. Due to difficult experiences in the country of origin, adaptation stress or other factors, some people may have learning difficulties and psychological support is intended to help alleviate them. It will be offered in two forms – individual meetings with a psychologist and support groups.

The project will develop operational tools to support trainers in the implementation of theoretical and practical training: training scenarios and packages for trainers. Moreover, training packages for participants in three language versions – Polish, English and Russian – will be developed. The model will be described in detail, and after testing it, recommendations will be developed. The long-term benefit of testing the model will be the improvement of skills of the participants, which will translate into support for local social and economic development of Warsaw and its surroundings. The testing will also allow to assess the effectiveness of support triangulation and applied methods and techniques. The results of this assessment can be taken into account in possible future programmes implemented by government institutions and social partners.

Project leader: CASE – Centre for Social and Economic Research

Partners: Fundacja dla Somalii, Fundacja Ocalenie

Project value: 1 200 624,60 złotych

EU grant value: 1 132 068,94 złotych

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