Projects

IN LOCO - Integration in LOcal Communities

Aligned with the Urban Agenda Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees, the AMIF project IN LOCO aims to create networks of key stakeholders to ensure that policies have their roots in data, needs, risks, and opportunities systematically observed ‘on the ground’. Through Local and Rural Task Forces comprising various entities like public institutions, NGOs, and migrant associations, the project aims to co-design and implement action plans for migrant integration. These plans focus on improving existing services, deploying new resources, and exploring initiatives for settlement in rural areas. The participatory approach involves continuous feedback loops and field research conducted by trained refugees to ensure needs-based solutions. Insights gathered will inform the establishment of a refugee-led association, New Europeans Welcome (NEW), to advocate for policy change at the EU level.

H:OUSE - Housing: to Overcome Unstable Situation in Europe

H:OUSE grounds on the idea that the right to housing is the first step for the integration of migrants into their destination communities. At the heart of the project, funded by the AMIF programme, is the awareness of the effectiveness of participatory and bottom-up approaches in supporting the search for and access to housing. Inspired by positive experiences of Community Sponsorship at international and local level, H:OUSE will develop and test a multi-stakeholder model, actively involving public and private sponsors, who will be trained to support newcomers more effectively. It will also involve and train local authorities and relevant stakeholders on crucial issues such as knowledge and accessibility of housing solutions and innovative practices developed on the ground. The project brings actors together in multi-stakeholder sponsorship groups in the project implementation countries (IT, HE, HU, IR, SL) to plan and implement concrete interventions through synergetic collaboration. The ambitious end result is the creation of a direct support network for the final beneficiaries, supported by a solid, informed and Europe-wide connected structure.

RES MOVE - Resources on the Move

Led by a consortium of 13 organizations across 10 EU countries, the AMIF project RES-MOVE aims to leverage coworking and collaborative spaces for migrant inclusion. These spaces, encompassing coworking hubs, fab-labs, maker spaces, and even public libraries or coffee shops, offer promising avenues for integrating skilled migrants into the workforce. Targeting freelancers, craftspersons, start-up founders, and knowledge workers (such as researchers or educators), the project draws inspiration from recent initiatives, like providing desks to Ukrainian refugees in coworking spaces. Expected outcomes include transforming selected collaborative spaces across 11 territories into models of migrant inclusion, facilitating job pathways for 1,100 migrants (with a focus on gender balance), and developing a replicable model for the wider coworking community and local authorities. Additionally, the project aims to establish a Transnational Network of Inclusive Coworking Spaces to ensure sustainability and scalability beyond its duration.

ApS(M) - Mobilising university-community resources through SL(M) for the inclusion of migrants and refugees

The Erasmus+ ApS(M) Project is intended to create collaborative networks between university teachers, students and social entities to encourage the inclusion of migrants/ refugees. The SL methodology - which combines learning and community service processes - fosters the relationship between the University and the community, to create a more democratic, equitable and inclusive society. Led by the University of Santiago de Compostela (ES) and participated by Accem (ES), the University of Galway (IE), the University of Verona and Glocal Factory (IT), ApS(M) lies on the principle that University must play a strategic role to help youngsters become ‘European citizens', improving their knowledge and awareness about civic issues and involving them to active citizenship projects. In order to develop intercultural citizenship through service learning, migrants and university students work together, involved in a process of reciprocal training and social innovation. The service is connected to the curriculum of the subjects being studied. The same context of development becomes an intercultural space.

EMBRACE - Empowering Migrants to Be Representative Actors in Community Engagement

EMBRACE fosters migrants’ participation in decision-making and policy implementation processes in host societies through the testing and modelling of a carefully designed pathway. It is the result of collective work that has led to the synthesis of successful experiences at local level in several MS. These have evolved into an organic and coherent EU model of political participation of migrants, able of enhancing the peculiarities of each territory. The project stems from the need to meaningfully involve newcomers in decision-making and is based on the testing of pilot activities in 11 territories, across six European countries.

RaCIP - RAising Capacity for Inclusive People engaged in private sponsorship

Co-funded by the AMIF programme of the European Union, RaCIP aims to enhance capacity building for organisations operating Private Sponsorship schemes or otherwise engaged in community-based support to refugees’ integration. The project will feature several pilot schemes aimed at scaling up existing PS and strengthening community-based efforts by experimenting PS initiatives in the Member States involved. Starting from the community-based sponsorship model developed in Portugal by the Jesuit Refugee Service, the project goes further, improving through the assimilation of good practices experimented in the five countries of the nine project partners. Two goals inspire this action: boosting the capacities of Civil Society Organisations and local communities and promoting the active involvement of refugees in their integration process.

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