European Web Site on Integration - September 2020

EU Highlights:

• The European Commission will launch a Call in mid-October for proposals relating to integration and complementary pathways for the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund work programme, the deadline for which will be 16 February 2021.
  
  
• The European Migration Network (EMN) has released its second report on the impact of COVID-19. This latest edition explores the effects of COVID-19 on international students and the responses of states and higher education institutions (HEIs) across the EU and OECD Member States.

• The European Commission and the European Social and Economic Partners renewed their commitment to the European Partnership for Integration, first signed in 2017, in order to better address the specific difficulties facing migrant workers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• The European Commission released a five-year EU Anti-Racism Action Plan, acknowledging the need to tackle the underlying problem of structural racism in the EU.

• The European Commission also presented a new Pact on Migration and Asylum, establishing the successful integration of refugees as a priority.

There is still time to implement the EU’s integration policy:

The European Commission's EU-wide public consultation on the next Action Plan on integration and inclusion continues – have your say until 21 October 2020, in all official EU languages.

According to new regulations proposed by the Czech Republic's Interior Ministry, foreigners seeking long term or permanent residence in the Czech Republic will need to take a mandatory integration course - which before now has been voluntary - from 1 January 2021. These new regulations are currently undergoing legislation and still need to be formally approved by the Interior Ministry. The course…

As organisations promoting integration across Europe work on facilitating the inclusion and development of migrant children of all ages, it is essential to take into account what these children have to offer their new communities through their passion, resilience and determination. In order to do this their personal journeys must be considered: where they have come from, who they are, and what the…

The first comparative study has been made on the consequences of COVID-19 in migrant and native families in Amadora, the most densely populated municipality in Portugal where foreign citizens account for 11.7% of the population. The final results of the study are due to be published soon, but key statistics are already being shared. The data, collected from 217 migrant families and 203 nativ…

On October 15 the National Pedagogical Institute of the Czech Republic (NPICR) will hold the fourth edition of its teaching conference. As in previous years discussion will focus on measures taken by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports to support children who are migrants or have migrant parents. An additional focal point this year will be how these measures have been or will be…

This project provided additional integration support to migrants under international protection in Poland, building on the one-year individual integration programme already being run by The Warsaw Family Assistance Centre. The project offered various activities which focused on furthering social and economic inclusion.

This initiative aims to create a network of corporate volunteers (mentors) who are available to provide guidance, orientation or information to migrants (mentees) according to their needs in different areas (eg. achieving qualifications, searching for employment, entrepreneurship, health, parenting, citizenship and participation and so on). Contact is established between people who would otherwise…

The Touchpoints Business MeetUps is a monthly networking event held over a meal, bringing together budding entrepreneurs, employers, migrant jobseekers, established entrepreneurs and key players in the entrepreneurship world.

This report assesses educational performance among refugee children in the Nordic region. The primary study population was made up of people granted residency in the Nordic region as minors (aged between 0–17 years) between 1986 and 2005. These children’s educational outcomes were assessed within and across the Nordic countries, relative to: their Nordic majority population counter…

The European Migration Network’s (EMN) 2019 annual report for Sweden includes a chapter summarising the year’s most important developments in the field of migrant integration. These developments include, among other issues, the following:   an additional state grant for supporting measures for the municipalities that organise vocational education in combination with language t…