SYNCLUSIVE is an innovative, integral, and interdisciplinary systems’ approach to stimulate inclusion of vulnerable groups in the labor market. To achieve this, our six central objectives are: 1) developing and consolidating a coalition of stakeholders in 4 regional Living Labs across Europe along the lines of the Community Coalition Action Theory, using the ENGINE approach. This approach includes an integrated package of interventions that stimulates upward and sideward mobility of vulnerable employees, hereby creating vacancies for inflow of vulnerable job seekers; 2) testing the usefulness and applicability of the ENGINE approach for different vulnerable groups identified as being discriminated against; 3) identifying drivers and barriers for mobility and inflow including discrimination; 4) assessing the impact of the implemented ENGINE approach on the labor market mobility and inclusion of vulnerable groups; 5) identifying transition pathways from the regional to the national and EU policy level; and 6) identifying interoperable and comparative indicators and standards that are relevant for the labor market inclusion of vulnerable groups taking into account the regional, national (legislative, social security) and cultural context.

Inclusion of vulnerable people in the labor market. SYNCLUSIVE therefore collaborates in an ‘active community coalition’ amongst municipalities, employers, civil society and educational institutes, which interacts with their political counterparts at national and EU level across 7 European regions.

Promoting labor market inclusion of vulnerable groups is an important and complex problem. It is clear that it is not only about inclusion of vulnerable groups who are still outside the labor market, but also those inside the labor market are vulnerable to lose their job. SYNCLUSIVE aims to develop, implement and evaluate an innovative, integral,

interdisciplinary systems’ approach to promote the inflow, retention and further development of vulnerable groups in the labor market. We will do so in four Living Labs in different European contexts and work together with all relevant regional stakeholders: the vulnerable target groups themselves, the municipalities, employers, civil societies, (vocational) educational and coaching institutes and communities. Hereby, SYNCLUSIVE promotes inclusion of vulnerable groups and overcomes discrimination in the labor market.

The project will explore the Community Coalition Action Theory (CCAT; Butterfoss & Kegler, 2002) as an important framework for understanding how organisations might optimally work together. When vulnerable groups are to develop their talents, the form in which education is provided is often of key importance. The peer learning methodology offers the vital training to these vulnerable people to gain the right skills to seize opportunities.

SYNCLUSIVE results will lead to sustainable inclusion of vulnerable groups in the regional Living Labs, and have vast potential to result in outcomes far beyond the scope and duration of the project. SYNCLUSIVE will contribute to generic and context-specific EU-wide policy and intervention recommendations that drive inclusion of vulnerable groups and help to start overcoming discrimination in the EU labour market.

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With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific projects with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified for this project. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.