Bavaria Needs You – 3
On 4 May 2026, our third ESF+ funded project in favour of unemployed refugees “Bavaria Needs You – 3” begins
We look forward to welcoming ten highly educated, multilingual and professionally experienced women with refugee backgrounds from Ukraine, residing in the Munich district, whom we are delighted to teach, support, coach, empower and provide social support to on a daily basis as part of our third ESF+ funded project “Bavaria Needs You-3”, so that they can independently, socially just and sustainable manner, pursue regular employment as skilled payroll accountants in the Greater Munich area and, through this, be able to permanently secure their families’ livelihoods through their own efforts and resources.
People are at the heart of funding from the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), which is the European Union’s most significant funding instrument for combating unemployment, promoting employment and investing in education. The ESF+ in Bavaria helps people find work, reduces poverty, improves their skills and enhances their prospects in the labour market. In this way, people are supported in their professional and social integration and in entering the world of work.
The integration of people with refugee backgrounds into the Bavarian primary labour market is, by its very nature, characterised by a wide range of challenges and areas requiring action. At the same time, thanks to the qualifications, higher education, professional experience and foreign language skills they acquired in their home countries, refugees offer valuable potential for meeting Bavaria’s labour and skilled worker needs.
Furthermore, our experience over recent years shows that people with a refugee background have a genuine interest in taking up employment and wish to play an active role in their host society, as work and social integration are mutually dependent. We aim to enhance the opportunities for participants in the ESF+ project “Bavaria Needs You-3” within the Bavarian primary labour market and in entering professional life as skilled workers, to adapt the qualifications they have acquired, and to improve their social skills.
Our full-time vocational preparation programme also includes socio-educational support with additional measures tailored to women with a refugee background, such as supplementary, low-threshold workplace-oriented language training and personal coaching, in order to take their gender-specific needs into particular account. These support measures, designed specifically for this target group, are aimed at restoring their employability. In doing so, we aim to actively support the integration of unemployed refugee women into the Bavarian primary labour market and contribute to genuine equality of opportunity in social and professional spheres.
Helping people to help themselves guides our actions. We take responsibility for fostering a cosmopolitan, respectful and non-discriminatory environment and provide the necessary social and political impetus. In this way, we contribute to social harmony in the Greater Munich area. Beyond the principle of ‘support and challenge’, we focus on treating participants with respect and on an equal footing, actively fostering a positive, respectful, friendly and non-judgemental attitude based on trust, mutual respect, recognition and appreciation at all times.