Integrating refugees via suitable knowledge transfer for new jobs

Today we face the largest migration of human beings in the modern era. This situation is full of chances and threats, but definitely: the scale of the challenge is epic! Social integration is obviously the goal of all global endeavors but it has many very different levels. Besides the language it is a regular job that can be the most suitable instrument to find oneself implemented and accepted as a valuable part of the “new-home” society. It is difficult enough to learn European languages, especially German, and what comes on top are complex in-company-procedures everybody has to learn, when trying to gain sustainable access to the European employment market. It is our duty to contribute to establishing easier ways of getting access to our every-day-manufacturing knowledge for the people who seek asylum. This working paper offers a variety of carefully selected instruments of knowledge transfer that will enable to learn new jobs quicker and more sustainable. We demonstrate how existing scientific instruments can be arranged to prepare, execute and review a qualitative knowledge transfer session. This knowledge transfer network is being developed and evaluated in the German public sector since early 2015 on real life job changes.