E-DRIM is a European cooperation project funded by the European Commission within the Socrates Programme, Grundtvig action. This first newsletter will provide you with a brief description of the project and its objectives, as well as a presentation of current results. For more information, please contact the E-DRIM website:

In present-day Europe the phenomenon of immigration is increasingly perceived as a problem linked to social security and humanitarian emergency, rather than as an opportunity fostering the creation of a more inclusive and dynamic European society. Not all immigrants have a low level of formal education. However, although many of them have remarkable key skills, medium or high education and training levels, as well as a professional profile which would imply a good job, they are generally offered jobs in Europe requiring a low-skilled or even unskilled profile.

E-DRIM intends to favour the process of integration of immigrants, especially, but not exclusively, of those who have higher levels of competences, qualifications and professionalism, by supporting their more active role in the society, providing them with learning and lifelong learning initiatives supporting entrepreneurship as a new and alternative path to personal development. The necessity to remove occupational barriers faced by ethnic minorities and immigrants is in fact recognized as a fundamental element for social cohesion and integration in Europe. This policy attention aimed at making Europe an inclusive society contribute to the perception, by potential immigrants, of Europe as a place rich in opportunities, where to develop a personal and professional “life project”: European society thereof becomes the place for the “European dream” to come true.