The ‘Fast Lane to the Labour Market’ project offers an innovative approach for the problem of integrating refugees into the labour market With its approach being both integrative and co-operational  based on the principles of Work-based learning (WBL)  ECVET as well as content and language integrated learning (CLIL)  it shortens the time span from the refugees’ arrival until the point of entrance into the labour market because it combines the acquisition of language skills  social and cultural integration as well as vocational qualification