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The site provides information on language and work requirements, as well as visa requirements for those who want to live and work in Croatia. (The website covers other countries too.)

Croatia Guide (Justlanded website)

Advice for aliens
Ministry of Interior's site with all requirements and documents needed for the stay of foreigners in Croatia. The site also provides links to Croatian laws and regulations concerning the stay of foreigners.

Advice for aliens

British Council, Booz Allen Hamilton, IPSOS (2013), Culture at work, The value of intercultural skills in the workplace, www.britishcouncil.org

Report on research into the business value of employing staff able to work effectively with individuals and organisations from cultural backgrounds different from their own.

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Finnish National Board of Education (2012), National core curriculum for integration training for adult migrants, www.oph.fi/english.

Finland's 2010 Act on the Promotion of Integration aims to promote migrants’ integration into Finnish society and support their active participation in it. In order to enhance migrants’ integration and accelerate their employment, the Integration Act lays down provisions on measures and services to promote and support integration, including information, guidance and counselling, initial assessment and an integration plan, which may also be used to agree on integration training. According to the Integration Act, integration training for adult migrants must be provided in compliance with this National Core Curriculum.

Finnish national core curriculum for integration training

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Berg Wilhelmine, Leinecke Rita (2014), "Deutsch habe ich im Betrieb gelernt" - Berufsbezogenes Deutsch im Unternehmen verankern.
Brochure offering employers guidance on how to help employees learning German as a second language develop their language skills at work.
For English language version, see I learned German at work (2016)

Deutsch_habe_ich_im_Betrieb_gelernt.pdf

German at the workplace web portal for second language teachers, disseminators, employers, labour unions and others interested in enhancing workplace communication skills of (migrant) workers. Provides (1) resources for work-related second language learning and workplace communication skills, including a database of learning materials and documents related to workplace needs analysis; (2) glossary on key terms; (3) broader socio-economic critiques of migrant labour issues.

The site is part of the project Fachstelle Berufsbezogenes Deutsch (the specialist department on work-related German as a second language), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and part of a wider federal network (Integration through Qualification). The projects focus is on enhancing first and second generation immigrants access to the labour market and also on developing advanced training pilots to support workplace-related communication skills.

http://www.deutsch-am-arbeitsplatz.de/

Aims to strengthen the asylum and migration systems of Eastern partners and advance the dialogue on migration and asylum issues amongst the Eastern partners and between them and the EU.

[Funded by EU, implemented by International Organization for Migration]

http://eapmigrationpanel.org/

Derrick, J. (2012), Embedding literacy and essential skills in workplace learning: Breaking the solitudes, The Centre for Literacy / Le centre d’alphabétisation, Montreal.

Literature review produced as a background paper for the Quebec Centre for Literacy’s 2011 Summer Institute, Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills: Embedding Practice, Preparing Providers. Considers relationship between workplace learning in general and workplace literacy and essential (or basic) skills.

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UK site offering large collection of useful articles exploring education, learning and social change. Articles focus in particular on the theory and practice of informal education, social action, social pedagogy and lifelong learning.

Established in 1995, infed is run by a small group of educators as an open and not-for-profit site. It is hosted by YMCA George Williams College, London.

http://infed.org/mobi/

Two case studies of English for and in work, constraints and opportunities, principles for materials.

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