Europe is facing one of the most difficult period of its existence and one of its most important problem is the refugees and migrant crisis. The last years were characterized by: - EU’s external borders have increasingly been the scene of human tragedies - the Brexit demonstrated the weakness of the Union - the continuing arrival of refugees coming from Syrian, Afghan, Nigerian, Pakistani, Iraqi and Eritrean is increased a lot - Europa in under a terrorist attacks often organised and done by single person so very difficult to be stopped The arrivals in many countries of our project partnership are arrived enormous numbers (e.g. more than 174.000 have arrived in Greece and more than 181,000 in Italy) as the number of people died in the Mediterranean Sea (more than 5.000). The number of refugees hosted in Europe is about 4.5 million (+43% more than 2014 and +158% more than 2013). In Turkey, according to the official numbers • there are 1,645,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey as of November 2014. Unofficial numbers are estimated at around 2 million. These numbers mean that Turkey hosts a Syrian refugee population of 2.1% (officially) and 2.5% (unofficially) of its population. • 1.2 million people have been included to the 10 million already residing in cities near the Syrian border The number of refugees in Turkey has reached over 3 million people, making Turkey the host country with the largest refugee population in the world. About 90% of Syrian refugees in Turkey remain outside of camp settings with limited access to basic services. And the situation in many countries in 2017 is becoming more difficult day per day. It is every day more and more necessary the help of the associations and ngos to help and to work in parallel with the public authorities facing the problem. But for doing this, it is necessary to find, understand and share the good practices to have the opportunity to applicate them in the local territories, helping consequently the situation, offering best services and guiding the population to accept and respond positively to all the humanitarian needs: this is one of main objective of this project. For this reason our project has planned different activities that couls support the partners (working al in the specific field) but also the local communities and directly migrants and refugees. The activities that we want to realise in the project are the following: A1. Brand (a logo to identify the european project) A2. Googlegroup (to have a good communication within the partnership) A3. Facebook project page in English to spread information on social media A4. Leaflet in all languages of the partnership (to explain project, partnership and aims) A5. Web site (in all the partners languages) A6. Facebook group of all the participants (for a good communication within the partnership and to contact target groups) A7. Focus Groups in each country with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in order to gather information on needs and attitudes A8. Focus Groups in each country with organisations working for refugees and migrants A9. Research done in each country about the 5 national good practices on refugees' integration in English A10. 4 newsletters (every 6 months to promote and share the project steps realised) A11. Comic strip to promote the EU activity to save refugees (in all partners languages) A12. Guide in pdf of good practices of integration (chosen by the partnership) A13. Festivals of foreign cultures in Greece, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania and UK A14. Monitoring activities A15. Evaluation activities A16. Dissemination activities (press realease & conferences, television broadcasts, articles on newspapers, social networks, local networks, etc.) M1. Project meeting in London (UK) M2. Project meeting in Potenza (IT) M3. Project meeting in Madrid (ES) M4. Project meeting in Sassari (IT) C1. Joint Staff Training Event in Thessaloniki (EL) C2. Joint Staff Training Event in Kırşehir (TR) C3. Joint Staff Training Event in Lodz (PL) The general objective of the action is to develop and implement effective and concrete ways to strengthen the integration of migrants in the society and cope with a pressing need for more inclusion, according to Commissioner Creţu: “Integrating migrants is not only our duty of solidarity as European citizens, it is also a great opportunity to make our society more inclusive and cohesive as a whole, enriched by diversity. …we need to make sure that EU citizens hear it.” (Statement 7th February 2017). The general objective has been identified considering the following needs: -help the social service providers and organizations working with migrants to scale up their activities relevant to the migrants integration; -support the training and skills development to enable more practitioners to improve their capacity building on diversity and identity management; -cooperation between organizations working with the mission of the social and cultural inclusion.
Europe is facing one of the most difficult period of its existence and one of its most important problem is the refugees and migrant crisis. The last years were characterized by: - EU’s external borders have increasingly been the scene of human tragedies - the Brexit demonstrated the weakness of the Union - the continuing arrival of refugees coming from Syrian, Afghan, Nigerian, Pakistani, Iraqi and Eritrean is increased a lot - Europa in under a terrorist attacks often organised and done by single person so very difficult to be stopped The arrivals in many countries of our project partnership are arrived enormous numbers (e.g. more than 174.000 have arrived in Greece and more than 181,000 in Italy) as the number of people died in the Mediterranean Sea (more than 5.000). The number of refugees hosted in Europe is about 4.5 million (+43% more than 2014 and +158% more than 2013). In Turkey, according to the official numbers • there are 1,645,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey as of November 2014. Unofficial numbers are estimated at around 2 million. These numbers mean that Turkey hosts a Syrian refugee population of 2.1% (officially) and 2.5% (unofficially) of its population. • 1.2 million people have been included to the 10 million already residing in cities near the Syrian border The number of refugees in Turkey has reached over 3 million people, making Turkey the host country with the largest refugee population in the world. About 90% of Syrian refugees in Turkey remain outside of camp settings with limited access to basic services. And the situation in many countries in 2017 is becoming more difficult day per day. It is every day more and more necessary the help of the associations and ngos to help and to work in parallel with the public authorities facing the problem. But for doing this, it is necessary to find, understand and share the good practices to have the opportunity to applicate them in the local territories, helping consequently the situation, offering best services and guiding the population to accept and respond positively to all the humanitarian needs: this is one of main objective of this project. For this reason our project has planned different activities that couls support the partners (working al in the specific field) but also the local communities and directly migrants and refugees. The activities that we want to realise in the project are the following: A1. Brand (a logo to identify the european project) A2. Googlegroup (to have a good communication within the partnership) A3. Facebook project page in English to spread information on social media A4. Leaflet in all languages of the partnership (to explain project, partnership and aims) A5. Web site (in all the partners languages) A6. Facebook group of all the participants (for a good communication within the partnership and to contact target groups) A7. Focus Groups in each country with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in order to gather information on needs and attitudes A8. Focus Groups in each country with organisations working for refugees and migrants A9. Research done in each country about the 5 national good practices on refugees' integration in English A10. 4 newsletters (every 6 months to promote and share the project steps realised) A11. Comic strip to promote the EU activity to save refugees (in all partners languages) A12. Guide in pdf of good practices of integration (chosen by the partnership) A13. Festivals of foreign cultures in Greece, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania and UK A14. Monitoring activities A15. Evaluation activities A16. Dissemination activities (press realease & conferences, television broadcasts, articles on newspapers, social networks, local networks, etc.) M1. Project meeting in London (UK) M2. Project meeting in Potenza (IT) M3. Project meeting in Madrid (ES) M4. Project meeting in Sassari (IT) C1. Joint Staff Training Event in Thessaloniki (EL) C2. Joint Staff Training Event in Kırşehir (TR) C3. Joint Staff Training Event in Lodz (PL) The general objective of the action is to develop and implement effective and concrete ways to strengthen the integration of migrants in the society and cope with a pressing need for more inclusion, according to Commissioner Creţu: “Integrating migrants is not only our duty of solidarity as European citizens, it is also a great opportunity to make our society more inclusive and cohesive as a whole, enriched by diversity. …we need to make sure that EU citizens hear it.” (Statement 7th February 2017). The general objective has been identified considering the following needs: -help the social service providers and organizations working with migrants to scale up their activities relevant to the migrants integration; -support the training and skills development to enable more practitioners to improve their capacity building on diversity and identity management; -cooperation between organizations working with the mission of the social and cultural inclusion.