The project is a collaboration between Moesgaard Anthropological Research and Analysis (MANTRA), Aarhus University and the Alexandra Institute in collaboration with the following contributors: Vejen Municipality, Varde Municipality, Høje-Taastrup Municipality, SOSU Esbjerg, SOSU H, Danish SOSU schools, FOA, KL and the Joint Committee for Vocational Welfare Education.

Expected results of MIGSOSU

1. A website and a best practice catalogue with experiences and recommendations for the recruitment and retention of SOSU students and employees with a migrant background, especially in elderly care, based on studies of local initiatives and practices across the country.

2. A new interactive learning app ‘The SOSU Aspirant’, which supports SOSU students and employees with a migrant background in their learning, communication and collaboration with colleagues, managers and elderly citizens in work situations, especially during internships, where the most dropouts occurs.

MIGSOSU’s solutions thus create a practice-near and scalable infrastructure that produces value for both institutions and individuals:
 

• Danish SOSU schools gain access to useful knowledge and tools to support the individual SOSU schools, their strategies and practices regarding the attraction and retention of students with a migrant background, and the participating SOSU schools will have their efforts evaluated as well as gain access to learning-supporting technology. The schools will also gain access to knowledge about what motivates potential SOSU-students with a migrant background to start the education, as well as what both challenges and keeps them in the schools.  
• SOSU students and staff with a migrant background in the schools and in the elderly care sector will benefit from improved learning and language support through technological solutions as well as more supportive and inclusive study and learning environments. They will be encouraged to complete their education as SOSU helpers or SOSU assistants and thus have the prospect of employment and a higher socio-economic status.
• The municipal elderly sector will benefit from knowledge and tools to retain more trained SOSU employees in elderly care through improved support in work situations and more inclusive work environments. This will also benefit citizens, as sufficient skilled labour ensures that elderly care-requiring citizens receive sufficient and qualified help and support.
• On a national level, the project will contribute to moving more people from unemployment or unskilled work to skilled work, retain people with a migrant background as valuable labour in Denmark and maintain the level of service in public elderly care.

• MIAU
• https://projekter.au.dk/aisha/