Helping city services to fight gender-based violence The EU-funded project Equalcity is supporting local services to better identify, prevent and tackle sexual and gender-based violence in migrant communities. This initiative was first introduced during the Q&A session of the “Intercultural Regions: Improving Access to Services” webinar organised by AER, IOM, and the … [Read more...]
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AMiD Final Conference
SAVE THE DATE! The Assembly of European Regions is pleased to invite you to: The AMiD Final Conference Date: 5 November 2019 Timing: 13:00-18:30 Venue: European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Rue Belliard 99, B-1040, Brussels AMiD - Access to services for Migrants with Disabilities project is an EU funded project that aims to support the efficient … [Read more...]
SUMMER ACADEMY 2019: AMiD workshop on Migrants with Disabilities
"Opportunities for all abilities" The AMiD-Access to services for Migrants with Disabilities project is landing in Novi Sad, Vojvodina (RS) for the 2019 Summer Academy with the aim to raise awareness among regional and local authorities and young representatives about one of the most fragile within the disadvantaged groups: migrants with disabilities. The AMiD official … [Read more...]
‘Connecting the dots’ – Multi-level, Multi-actor Migration
The Assembly of European Regions is pleased to invite you to two inclusion days, starting with: A Round Table and World Cafe’ Exchange Session 'Connecting the dots' Multi-level, Multi-actor Migration AMiD Targeted Meeting 3 Larnaca, 5 June 2019 Timing: 10.00 - 16.30 Venue: Radisson Blu Hotel, Larnaca (Atlantidon 2, Larnaca 6058, Cyprus) Programme: HERE About the … [Read more...]
International Migrants Day: Promoting Diversity in Regions
To mark this year’s International Migrant Day, the Assembly of European Regions and the Region of Catalonia are organising this conference on promoting diversity and integration of migrants at a regional level on 18 December in Barcelona. The Conference will bring together representatives of regional authorities, high-level institutional officials and other stakeholders from … [Read more...]
Good practices on refugees and disability inspired AMiD project
Refugees and asylum seekers with disabilities is the main target of AMiD project. Started on January 2018, the project team is working on the development of the main project output, the Need Assessment Tool - NAT. The lack of tool and procedures to support refugees and asylum seekers with disabilities with the right actions and services is the challenge that AMiD … [Read more...]
Valorisation of talents with a migrant background: do you want to work on this?
EVA vzw (BE) - a social innovator in the social economy - is looking for European partners for the ESF project "Culture-sensitive Care ambassadors – Valorizing talents+". This project aims to make the potential of informal caregivers with migrant roots visible and valorized in order to improve their transfer to training and job opportunities within the professional care. This … [Read more...]
Fairer Assessment for Migrants with Disabilities? Accomplished, with the AMiD Project!
Good news for AER partners! EASPD, the European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities, and AER, together with 10 other partners, struck a grant agreement on a new project. We believe such initiatives to be particularly interesting for regions and local authorities dealing with migrants to better support those with disabilities. Three … [Read more...]
Integration in the labour market for asylum seekers and refugees: looking for project partners!
Kahramanmaras Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey), member of the Assembly of European Regions, is preparing a project proposal as lead partner in the framework of the Employment and Social Innovation EaSI programme aimed to promote a high level of quality and sustainable employment, guaranteeing adequate and decent social protection, combating social exclusion and poverty and … [Read more...]
Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees under the spot: two new funding opportunities
Migrants and refugees are on the top of the European Commission agenda since the flow of people coming to Europe blow up. AER is also closely following this topic big very high in the agenda of European regions, which had discussed it on occasion of several AER meetings, in particular during the 2015 AER General Assembly & Autumn Bureau and the 2016 Committees Spring … [Read more...]
Partner search on entrepreneurship support schemes for the Syrian migrant community
A member of the Assembly of European Regions, Kahramanmaras Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey), is going to submit a new project within the Call for Proposals for Migrants Entrepreneurship Support Schemes launched by the European Commission - Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), deadline 20 December 2016 17.00 hours (Brussels time). The project idea … [Read more...]
Call for Proposals for Migrants Entrepreneurship Support Schemes by EASME
Against the backdrop of economic crisis, terrorism, rising populism, and Brexit, Europe is faced with an unprecedented influx of migratory flows. This dramatic increase in the number of migrants and refugees arriving at Europe's borders poses a great challenge to its member states, especially in terms of integration. This migration issue is not only affecting the member … [Read more...]
At the intersection of urban policies and the migration issue
On 13 October, as part of the the 14th edition of the European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC) in Brussels, the workshop, “Migration and Cities: Territorial Aspects of Migration” was held. It fell under the Inclusive economic growth theme of EWRC. The workshop focused on the intersection of urban policies and the issues of migration, which tend to be discussed separately … [Read more...]
Partner search: project on new technologies to foster social innovation
The University of Greenwich (lead partner) located in London (UK) in collaboration with one French and one Belgium local authority are looking for partners to develop a project under the Interreg North-West Europe’s priority axis ‘Innovation’, which supports actions aimed at delivering societal benefits through innovation. Actions developed under this project will target … [Read more...]
Culture & inclusion: call for contributions
Sharing experiences Within the framework of the AER Subcommittee on Culture, Västerbotten is carrying out an inventory of good practices on culture & inclusion. Several regions have already sent their good practices on this topic. It's not too late to contribute and highlight a succesful example from your region. It doesn't need to be a large-scale initiative, actions need … [Read more...]