Romanian partner IREA has organized the first focus group for educators who work with migrants in project SoJUST. The focus group took place on March 16, 2021 in online format.

We had a fruitful discussion with 15 professionals, including university professors, directors of counseling centers, social workers, psychological counselor, legal counselor for migrants, teachers from the group of trainers.

We talked about the roles of these experts within their institutions and in the educational process of migrants,about the factors that contribute to balancing the relationship between experts / educational specialists / counselors and migrants, on the characteristics of experts for positive education and counseling services.

Last but not least we discussed about increasing the specific competencies of counselors in their work with migrants to positively affect education - counseling relationship (vocational education, non-formal education, mentoring, personality traits, knowledge to have, demographic information).
Many thanks to all the specialists in the field of education for migrants who responded to our invitation and attended the meeting that represents a starting point in our research.