Project summary The project aims to solve the persistent problem of social exclusion of older, highly educated status holders and indirectly their families. Despite the fact that these status holders are established and highly educated, they do not find work or work that does not match their qualifications. Not even in sectors for which they are trained and where there are large labour market shortages. In this case, the construction and installation industry, on the other hand, is aimed at low- or barely trained status holders. They too find it difficult to find their way into the labour market. While there are great needs for, for example, plasterers, carpenters, masons, etc. in construction. These low-skilled status holders may or may not have completed their integration. The current employment integration methodologies for these target groups seem to not work or are not being used properly. Design thinking is used in the development of a new, integrated, practical methodology for labour integration. The experience of status holders themselves as a starting point for further research and the method of development. The methodology to be developed should provide for a sustainable integration of status holders (high and low-skilled) in the construction and installation sectors. On the one hand, to provide the status holders with a structural job and a higher income; low incomes and lack of employment rates are often seen as the main reasons for social exclusion. On the other hand, to address labour market shortages in the construction and installation sectors.