Migration and integration

2023

CeMeWE

CeMeWe (Central Baltic Mentoring for Migrant Women Seeking Employment) brings together partners from Estonia, Latvia, Finland, and Sweden, who are creating a model that aims to increase the employability of immigrant women and helps to overcome individual, domestic, and societal barriers. As a result of the project, the target group will have a clear understanding of their employment opportunities, an increase in skills, and a clear chart of the steps needed for employment.

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2023

User Survey on the Global Estonian Portal

The website globalestonian.com is a gateway to information for Estonians abroad and globally-minded Estonians in Estonia. The aim of the survey is to better understand whether and how Estonians living abroad who are aware of the portal use it. Or if not, for what reasons. It will analyse whether the portal is moving in the right direction.

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2023

Transition to Estonian-language Education in Tartu

The holistic aim of the whole study is to find out the attitudes of parents of pupils in Russian-language schools and kindergartens in Tartu and the background of these attitudes towards the transition to Estonian-language education, i.e. to map the expectations and main fears of parents and to offer solutions to alleviate fears by raising parents’ language awareness.

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2023

Analysis of the Language Learner Programme and its Practices

The Language Learner Programme, administered and operated by the Integration Foundation (INSA), offers an excellent seasonal opportunity for individuals learning Estonian to enhance their communicative language skills. The analysis of this program serves two primary objectives. Firstly, it aims to scrutinize the data collected from completed datasets. Secondly, it endeavors to explore and map the practices of similar programs in various countries.

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2023

Erasmus+ Inclusive Mobility Study

The aim of this study was to identify and raise awareness among staff involved in implementing mobility projects. This awareness focused on the inclusion of participants with fewer opportunities. Secondly, the study aimed to highlight the importance of related measures in mobility projects.

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2023

Analysis of Counselling Services for Applicants for International Protection and Returnees

The return of the foreigner to his or her country of origin is part of the functioning of the asylum system. Individual counselling is provided to all these target groups, i.e. applicants for protection, beneficiaries and returnees. The counselling aims to provide the foreigner with reliable and impartial information on his/her rights and obligations, free of charge and in a language he/she understands, throughout the entire procedure for international protection and/or the obligation to leave.

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2023

The Organisation of Estonian Language Learning in Restricted Language Environments: Creating Sustainable and Effective Integrated Solutions 

While language learning has so far been targeted at all who wish to learn and all different target groups, in the near future, it is hoped to focus language learning provision on low-skilled permanent residents with passive language skills, family migrants and beneficiaries of temporary protection. The aim of this study is to identify the specific characteristics of these three groups.

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2022

Final Evaluation of the ESF Measures for Adaptation and Integration

To improve the integration and well-being of people arriving in Estonia and ensure that Estonian society is cohesive in its diversity, it is essential to promote cohesion and develop activities to enable it. This is what the Estonian state has been doing through its policies, and the adaptation and integration measure supported by EU structural instruments plays an essential role in this.

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2022

“Estonian Language Learning for Third-country Nationals” Impact Study

Estonian language training of third-country nationals has been heavily invested in through the Estonian state budget and international projects. However, language learning must first and foremost be based on the needs of the target group, which have been studied in several previous studies and the results of which have been taken into account in the development of Estonian language learning.

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2015

Monitoring of integration in Estonian society in 2015

The integration monitoring is based on the sectoral development plan Integrating Estonia 2020, which sets the strategic goal of developing an integrated and cohesive Estonian society, where people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds actively participate in social life and share democratic values.

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2014

Coordinating the development and compilation of the study and monitoring model for the Estonian strategy of integration “Integrating Estonia 2020”

The Institute of Baltic Studies coordinated the preparation of proposals for the Integration Development Plan “Integrating Estonia 2020” for the planning of research, the establishment of the Research Council’s working principles, the definition of development plan goals and the development of a monitoring model of integration processes.

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2012

Open Forums on Integration: Report on Recommendations by Third-Country Nationals regarding Estonia’s Integration Policy

From November 2012 until October 2013 Praxis Center for Policy Studies and Institute of Baltic Studies (IBS) implemented the project “National Debates on Integration for Third Country Nationals in Estonia”. The main objective of the project was to include third country nationals and people with undetermined citizenship living in Estonia (TCN) in policy making processes in the field of integration policy in Estonia.

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2012

Promotion of Equal Treatment: Impacts, Awareness and Policy Recommendations

The aim of this project was to analyse promotion of equal treatment in labour market and awareness altogether in Estonian society. The main target group were European third country nationals and persons without citizenship. In addition, activities were directed to additional groups: business leaders and human resources managers; Russian and Estonian media; local and governmental (ministries) policy makers, NGOs, experts, analytics and scientists.

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