Helping migrant workers improve their language skills

Better language skills for migrant construction workers is the focus of the CoLa-project (construction-related language learning for low-skilled migrant workers).
This project, co-financed by the European Commission, supports migrant workers’ professional career and social integration. It also aims to improve health and safety at European construction sites.
Construction is staffed by high levels of migrant workers. In many cases migrant workers lack host country and work-related language skills. Experts consider language deficiencies as a barrier to career development, to improving safety in the workplace and to a successful social integration. The CoLa project   started in 2011 and is co-financed under Key Activity 2 Languages of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme. More...