☀️ Summer School: Migration
We’re keeping the momentum going with our summer school of city resources! After kicking things off with mobility, it’s now time to turn our focus to migration and integration.
This week, we're sharing migration and integration resources specifically tailored for cities to support local efforts in building inclusive communities and welcoming newcomers.
#1 Guide on How to co-design Integration Strategies with migrants and other stakeholders
The AMIF-funded project UNITES developed this guide to delve deeper into co-design and provide guides on how to use it in integration strategies, including how to coordinate with stakeholders. Each chapter includes information step by step and real-life examples of cities.
The guide includes further useful resources, including the UNITES benchmark of key success factors for co-designing integration strategies, that can be used to assess which criteria your city already fulfils and areas in which it could improve its use of co-design.
Find it here → How to co-design Integration Strategies with migrants and other stakeholders
#2 Massive Open Online Course ‘Co-designing Migrant Integration in Your City’
The UNITES Massive Open Online Course ‘Co-designing Migrant Integration in Your City’ is designed for practitioners from local, regional, and national authorities passionate about developing collaborative integration policies.
In only 5 hours, you’ll gain detailed guidance on creating participative integration strategies and tools to ensure the meaningful involvement of migrants and refugees in policy design, implementation, and evaluation. This was developed under the EU-funded project UNITES.
Find it here → MOOC
#3 Integrating Cities Report
The 6th Integrating Cities Report is a comprehensive look at how European cities foster inclusion and integrate migrants into their communities.
As Europe continues to navigate the complexities of migration, such as a changing landscape of asylum, migration and border management policies brought about by the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum and ongoing global developments.
Find it here → 6th Integrating Cities Report
#4 How to guides
During workshops and staff exchanges, cities participating in the EU-funded project CONNECTION exchanged good practices on the following four themes:
How to develop a strategic approach to integration, participation and interaction?
How to build a gender dimension into integration policies?
How to build pathways to employment for migrants?
How to design one-stop shops as an integrated response to integration needs?
This publication draws on 18 months of cities exchanging and working together through CONNECTION. Each of the 4 thematic groups has developed a practical step-by-step tool for cities.
Find it here → How-to guides
#5 Training session ‘Addressing migrant women’s needs in local integration strategies’
As part of the EU-funded project CONSOLIDATE, this session of knowledge sharing was designed for local authorities looking to enhance their approaches to inclusion and create tailored strategies that meet the specific needs of migrant women.
Find it here → Training session ‘Addressing migrant women’s needs in local integration strategies’
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