Greece’s Ministry of Migration Policy is preparing a program of job training for refugees, while the Ministry of Rural Development is considering a land concession project for 1,000 to 1,500 refugees.
According to a Protothema.gr report, there is cooperation between the education, migration policy and rural development ministries, aiming at providing migrants with basic communication and professional skills, especially in the agricultural sector.
In particular, Minister of Rural Development Vangelis Apostolou is studying the prospect of land concession initially to 1,000 to 1,500 refugees, so that they can work with crops. Although the ministry has yet to decide on how this program will develop, its focus is on refugees, mainly from war zones, to work on the land, thus avoiding the risk of having them resort to illegal activities.
Skills acquisition for migrants and refugees is an important project for the Greek government and the European Commission, as part of a number of integration policies.
Areas in Macedonia or Boeotia are considered appropriate for the program of land cultivation by refugees. The Ministry of Migration Policy is in contact with trade unions, PASEGES, GSEE, even with industrialists, in an attempt to organise employment programs for migrants.
According to the report, this autumn there will be efforts to complete a detailed register of the skills and professional experience of thousands of refugees, so that in a coordinated way, refugees and migrants can enter the labor marker in low-intensity jobs, such as farming.
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