"Digital Talents for Moldova – Slovakia for Talents (DIGI TALENTS)" is a Slovak-Moldovan labour mobility and career development programme designed for young Moldovan professionals working in the ICT sector. Its main goal is to help Moldovan talents strengthen their professional skills and acquire new knowledge in a stimulating environment of ICT companies in Slovakia, thus improving their employment or business prospects.
Every year, thousands of women and girls fall into the hands of traffickers in their country of origin, on their way to Europe, within the European Union (EU) or during several phases of their migration journey. Given the underground nature of the criminal networks and poor data collection systems, the actual number of victims is difficult to assess and is likely to be underestimated. According to available EU data, the majority of human trafficking victims are still women and girls, with three-quarters of registered victims being female. Women and girls are primarily trafficked for sexual exploitation purposes.
An enabling environment in the context of legal and labour migration refers to broad social systems that govern multi-stakeholder engagement in labour mobility. These can be rules, laws, policies, social norms, or institutional frameworks in migration.
Over the past months, the Prague Process activities have largely focused on preparing the 4th Ministerial Conference, scheduled for 24-25 October 2022 as an official event of the Czech EU Presidency. The Conference shall result in the adoption of a new Action Plan and political mandate for the years 2023-2027.
The hybrid event Tech Talent - Nigeria's New Oil? held on 15 September gathered Nigerian public and private stakeholders to discuss ways to maximise the potential of Nigerian tech talents and the Nigerian ICT environment.
On Wednesday 22 September, the European Union Global Diaspora Facility (EUDiF) and the Migration Partnership Facility (MPF) hosted a webinar to present and further discuss the results of the newly published research on the potential role of the diaspora in the implementation of Talent Partnerships (TPs) with the researchers and representatives of each of the types of actor featured. Click here to read the main takeaways of the event.
For a more in depth analysis of the potential for diaspora in implementing the Talent Partnerships, read the full case study or the abridged version comprising the executive summary and recommendations.
The research project “Implementation of the Talent Partnerships – What potential role for the diaspora?” includes four country case studies and comprehensive description of diaspora segments, contributions and engagement potential. The report was prepared in partnership with the European Centre for Development Policy management (ECDPM) and the ICMPD sister-project European Union Global Diaspora Facility (EUDIF).
In 2019, fifteen Nigerian software developers, quality assurance specialists and data scientists took up their new positions at various Lithuanian companies. They were the first “explorers” to enter the labour mobility scheme Digital Explorers which brings young ICT (Information and communications technology) specialists from Nigeria to Lithuania for a career advancement programme. Funded by the European Union (EU) through ICMPD’s Mobility Partnership Facility (MPF), the initiative aimed to enhance the young specialists’ skills and competencies while contributing to the development of relevant business networks in both countries.
In February, the ICMPD and the Directorate-General Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME) co-hosted the workshop “From Pilot Projects to Talent Partnerships – Exploring the future of legal migration to the European Union (EU)” bringing together EU actors, member state and partner country representatives, and labour mobility project practitioners. The workshop was organised to share and reflect on stakeholders’ hands-on experience of implementing pilot projects on labour migration as the EU is gearing up to launch a new policy framework for cooperation on legal migration.
