Project purpose and goals
- Strengthen regional collaboration on migration data collection and analysis by sharing best practices for integrating labor migrants.
- Present successful examples and suggestions for developing information and communication services for citizens in both sending and receiving countries.
- Generate insights into how labor markets, social security systems, and demographic profiles are affected by migration in the region. This knowledge will assist policymakers in making informed decisions that promote economic and social development in the Baltic and Nordic countries.
- Create a Nordic-Baltic platform for experts, including authorities, labor market representatives, educational institutions, researchers, companies, and youth organizations, to collaborate on migration issues.
Project target groups
- NGOs
- Social/welfare services in the Baltic countries
- Baltic immigrants‘ communities
- Rural community centres
- Employment and social authorities
- Trade unions
- Nordic and Baltic embassies
Partners
- Nordic Council of Ministers Offices in Estonia and Latvia;
- NORDREGIO;
- Nordic embassies to the Baltic countries;
- Tartu University (Estonia);
- National and regional authorities (Ministries of Social Affairs, MFA) in the Baltic countries
- The Commition on Migration issues and the Committee of Human Rights of the Lithuanian
- Parliament
- IOM and NGOs
Key events and activities
Nordic-Baltic labour mobility study
The study explores the migration patterns between and within the countries in the Nordic-Baltic region, with a focus on labour mobility. The comparative study will be based on detailed statistical data obtained from the statistics offices in the respective countries, and supplemented by a pilot survey that will address additional questions such as circumstances and incentives leading to the decision to emigrate, migrants’ age, skills/deskilling, employment in sending and receiving countries, social networks, obstacles of integration in receiving countries, access to social security systems etc.
Publication on labour mobility in the Nordic-Baltic region
The publication aims at increasing awareness and bringing forward the most relevant Nordic-Baltic labour migration related issues to the political agenda in the Nordic-Baltic region. It will provide a general overview of the trends, policy considerations and associated challenges related to labour migration. Furthermore the publication will include a demographic vulnerability assessment of the Baltic and Nordic municipalities as well as few selected practices of coping with labour mobility and related demographic challenges at the local level in both Nordic and Baltic countries.
International conferences
- Family and migration in the Baltic-Nordic region: challenges and solutions, 21 November 2014, Vilnius
- Labour migration in the Nordic-Baltic region. Trends of labour migration – ready for the changes?, h 27 March 2015, Tallinn. Conference presentations.
