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Returning Experts Programme

for Moldova

Centrum für internationale Migration und Entwicklung (CIM)Centre for international Migration und Development

„The migration of the highly skilled is at best a healthy and recommendedwin-win phenomenon.“

Global Commission on International Migration, 2005

Speaker: Alexander Seidl

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Contents

• Programme objectives & target groups

• Programme offer & implementation

• Criteria for promotion

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Development-policy objective

• Promote the professional integration of returning experts

in jobs that will drive development forward

• Through professional integration returning experts

disseminate know-how in areas of relevance to

development

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Target groups

Moldovans thinking about returning home to their country:

1. University graduates

2. Vocational-training graduates

3. Experts and workers with professional experience (at

least two years)

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Basic requirements

• Citizenship of Moldova (dual nationality ok)

• Residence permit and registered address in Germany

• Successfully completed vocational training or degree programme

and/or

• At least two years’ professional experience in Germany or another

OECD country

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Programme offer

Non-financial support

• Information and consultancy

(in Germany and in Moldova)

• Job-placement in Moldova

• Networking

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Programme offer

Financial support for returning Moldovans

• Contribution towards travel costs for job-interviews

• Subsidy for travel and transport costs

• Top-up payment for salary for max. 2 years

• Financial help for internships between 3 and 6 months

• Workplace equipment (max. € 10,000)

• Specialist media

• Back-up support: networking, participation at conferences, further training

• Registration with CIM prior to return (even without a job)

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Advisors for returning experts

Local partners

Programme implementation

External partners

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Programme implementation

Who is CIM?

CIM is a joint-venture of

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and is a job-agency in a development-orientated sense

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Number of CIM returnees around the world in ‘09

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Advantages of returning experts

• Multi-lingual

• International experience

• Intercultural competence

• Potential network maker and member

• Inter-cultural bridge-builder

• Possess and communicate state-of-the-art know-how

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Internet

www.returning-experts.de

www.cimonline.de

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Questions and Discussion

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Contact

Centrum für internationale Migration und Entwicklung

Mendelssohnstr. 75-77

D-60325 Frankfurt

Germany

E-Mail: return@cimonline.de

Internet: www.returning-expterts.de | www.cimonline.deTel.: +49 (0)69-71 91 21 – 93 (Mr. Gerd Müller)

Fax: +49 (0)69-71 91 21 – 81

Moldova: Alexander Seidl; alexander.seidl@cimonline.de