HEKS/EPER is making a difference in Switzerland

Linguadukt serves as a language bridge between foreign-language speaking people and qualified staff from the health, social and education sectors to surmount language and cultural barriers and to elevate participation chances of migrants in general and to also lower costs (e.g. in the health sector).

«HEKS/EPER MosaiQ» advises and accompanies qualified migrants in obtaining recognition of their foreign diplomas so that they can bring their professional potential to the Swiss job market.

The HEKS/EPER Eastern Switzerland Triangle project is geared towards unemployed speakers of foreign languages. They are given information, their personal vocational situation is assessed and they receive individual job application training, all of which helps improve their chances of re-entering the job market.

HEKS/EPER leases allotment gardens at various locations in the Cantons of Basel-Stadt and Baselland and cultivates them together with refugee families.

HEKS/EPER runs a contact point at the administrative detention centre in Basel to provide advice and legal assistance to persons in detention pending deportation.

Vitalina provides important health information to foreign language speakers who are parents of pre-school children in the Basel region.

«HEKS/EPER Visit Eastern Switzerland» places long term unemployed people in meaningful part-time positions, thereby fostering their social inclusion.

HEKS Visio provides support for the long-term unemployed from the Burgdorf region.

HEKS/EPER manages eight New Gardens in French-speaking Switzerland intended for migrants in precarious situations, as a way of fostering their social integration through gardening.

Through Chèques-emploi, HEKS/EPER promotes access to social rights for persons working in private households in the Canton of Vaud by improving their working conditions.

CROE, HEKS/EPER organizes for an observer to be present at hearings on the grounds for asylum, in order to ensure the fairness of the procedure.

The «SAJE» is a HEKS/EPER legal advice office that informs, guides and defends asylum seekers during and after the conclusion of their asylum procedure.

«HEKS/EPER New Gardens» leases allotment gardens at various locations in Eastern Switzerland and works them together with migrants.

The HEKS/EPER Legal Advice Office Zurich informs asylum seekers and temporarily admitted persons about the asylum procedure and provides legal advice and assistance.

InfoSuisse 50+ is a HEKS/EPER integration project for asylum seekers 50 years and over, who have recently arrived in Switzerland. It promotes the learning of practical French.

The HEKS/EPER Age and Migration project informs, guides and integrates older people with a migration background in the Canton of Vaud.

The HEKS/EPER «AltuM» Project assists older migrants 55 years and over. Through preventive action, it prepares them for potential health problems and difficulties in old age.

«HEKS/EPER MosaiQ» advises and accompanies qualified migrants in obtaining recognition of their foreign diplomas so that they can bring their professional potential to the Swiss job market.

MEL offers an acknowledged training course for intercultural interpreters and training courses in cross-cultural mediation.

«MosaiQ Berne» advises and accompanies qualified migrants in obtaining recognition of their foreign diplomas so that they can bring their professional potential to the Swiss job market.