An increasing number of LGBTQI people are forced to flee their home country seeking greater sexual equality or even escaping persecution, since LGBTQI identity is criminalised in more than 70 countries worldwide. Obtaining reliable statistics on the numbers of LGBTQI asylum seekers is very difficult, since the majority of EU Member States do not collect specific data. However, their number is significant, taking into account the existing migrant populations in the EU and the UK. Based on Eurostat (2019), 22.3 million non-EU citizens were living in the EU on 1 January 2018, while the number of people living in the EU-28 born outside of the EU was 38.2 million. Based on the same source, third-country-national populations in the UK, Italy, Greece and Cyprus were estimated for 2018 at 2.5 mil (3.7% of the population), 3.5 mil (6% of the population), 600.000 (5.6% of the population) and 34.600 (4% of the population) respectively. Although volunteer or forced migration of LGBTQI people is not a new phenomenon, the link between sexual identity and the decision to migrate is a highly understudied aspect of migration. Due to the difficulty in obtaining samples from such a marginalised and largely hidden social group, there is limited research regarding the life circumstances of LGBTQI migrants/refugees. Addressing this dearth of specific guidelines on how to treat LGBTQI migrants/refugees, this project intends to tackle discrimination and promote social cohesion by forming an educational programme shaped to suit the needs of this ‘doubly disadvantaged’ social group.The key aim of this project is to strengthen the capacity of professionals (of the social and employment sector) in answering the needs of LGBTQI refugees, migrants and asylum seekers. This will be achieved through the objective of developing a sustainable training programme that will enlighten professionals on the challenges posed by the double stigma attached to this community. The programme will give a profound insight into basic concepts related to LGBTQI people’s rights and needs, as well as the culture of the LGBTQI migrants’/refugees’ countries of origin with a view to providing personalised support and a specific methodology regarding their integration into the culture and reality of the host country.The project targets professionals working in services related to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. It consists of need-oriented educational interventions on the way professionals are guided to provide services to the LGBTQI migrant/refugee community, who are also a target group as they are going to be benefited. It will be implemented in 4 different countries that share the same needs and challenges (the UK, Italy, Greece and Cyprus) by a 5-partner consortium.During the project:-60 Educators and Professionals supporting migrants will have their capacities built on how to efficiently promote the integration of LGBTQI migrants into formal and informal Adult Education settings;-80 additional educators and professionals of the employment and social sector supporting migrants will be introduced to the capacity building programme and its details.-60 migrants will have the opportunity to learn about the newly developed capacity building programme for educators and professionals of the employment and social sector supporting migrants and its envisaged benefits;--3 open days and an international conference will be organised in the 4 implementing countries for promoting the project and its results to ~220 persons.The envisaged impact and long term benefits of the project include:-Provide professionals of the social and employment sector with actual information regarding the complex issues encountered by the LGBTQI community, special when it comes to people with migrant backgrounds. -Educate personnel on the detrimental effect xenophobic or homo-transphobic discrimination has not only on the LGBTQI migrants but also on our community as a whole.-Equip professionals with appropriate educational tools and material in order to be able to identify/prevent discrimination incidents and provide support to victimised individuals. -Minimise incidents of physical and emotional harassment towards LGBTQI migrants in asylum and detention centres, resettlement centres, refugee shelters and camps, as well as local community.-Decrease LGBTQI migrants’/refugees’ insecurity to disclose their LGBTQI identity out of fear of discrimination.-Ensure a fulfilling future for older adult LGBTQI migrants, the majority of whom have lived through a lifetime of social and legal rejection as well as continuous victimisation displaying noteworthy resilience. -Eradicate minority stress faced by the long-stigmatised LGBTQI migrant/refugee group, which has concrete negative impacts on their well-being, often leading to self-hatred, poor mental and physical health, higher rates of substances abuse or suicide attempts.