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23 5. CONCLUSIONS Through this research, the “UpGrad_Me 2.0” consortium has carried out a review of the employment situation of young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Spain, Italy, Malta and Cyprus, taking into account the different national resources to promote employability and favour the employment orientation processes of this target group. This review concludes that there is a need to promote projects and models that allow young migrants to be offered attractive alternatives so that they can access their first formal employment. The first step is necessarily based on knowledge of the different options available on the labour market in the European Union. For this reason, the consortium of the "UpGrad_Me 2.0" project has carried out a revision of the NACE classification system, which allows a detailed differentiation of the economic activities in the European Union. The NACE classification system offers a wide range of economic activities, which is a useful tool for business or governmental sectors within the European Union, but not at all for young migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers with no previous experience in the labour market of the European Community, let alone the host country. The project consortium carried out a simplification of the NACE system used by Eurostat (European Commission, 2008). As mentioned, this model is very comprehensive and complex, with a total of 21 occupational families, so a simplification was carried out for this questionnaire. Simplifying and reducing the number of occupational families to 10 entails methodological difficulties, as it means grouping very diverse professions under the same category, which could lead to a generalisation that reduces the precision of the analysis. However, this method has been chosen in order to provide a simplified framework for young people with no professional experience. This classification is conceived as a first approximation for young migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, as a preliminary step for them to self-reflect on their competences, on the sectors that may interest them and in which they could fit on the basis of the competences they already have or those they would like to develop, in order to subsequently, with the help of employment counsellors, explore the range of activities that fall within these professional families. It is important to point out that the simplification of the NACE System works well, it makes the system more user friendly. When building the gamification experience, we must keep in mind that we are referring to the competences needed to perform a job, not the ones related to the sector of activity of the company, ie. you may work in a sales position in a manufacturing company so you need the skills associated to the sales position Some of the limitations that we can draw from the "UpGrad_Me 2.0" model of classification of occupational families is that many of the defined economic activities could be included in different categories. Among them, the category with the greatest difficulties in discriminating