Peer Review Workshops

First Peer Review Workshop - Employment and Induction programmes
Huelva 20-22 February 2008

Second Peer Review Workshop - Education and Access to Health and Housing
Lecce 24-27 June 2008

Third Peer Review Workshop - Intercultural Dialogue and Participation
Brussels 25-27 November 2008

The first Transnational Peer Review on Employment and Induction programmes took place in Huelva (Spain) on the 20-22 February. The workshop included academic, political and practical contributions and rose a number of interesting and controversial discussions.

Academic dimension was broght by two experts:
Agnes Hars from KOPINT-TARKI Economic Research Institute-Budapest
(Hungary) presented the issue of Employment of Citizens of Third Countries in the European Union and prepared an oriantation paper on the same subject.

Ines Michalowski from the University of Munster (Germany) made a presentation on the Integration programmes for New Comers in Europe: Achievements and Challenges and prepared an oriantation paper on the same subject.

The political dimension was brought by Jude Kehla-Wimkar, the aldeman for work and diversity in Amsterdam South-East City Council through his intervention on Labour Market Participation and Support for Migrants Entrepreneurship.

In terms of practical exchange of experience our partners have presented a number of local case studies which have illustrated the situation in the field and which you can download below:

3 working groups were also organised on the issues of:

• Access to support services for enterprise development
• Migrant women participation in the labour market
• The political and practical implications of induction programmes

Download workshop documents:

• PREW and SGM final agenda
• Information pack
• List of participants
• First Transnational Peer Review Workshop report "Employment and Induction Programmes for Third country Nationals"

Presentations:

• Employment of Citizens of Third Countries in the European Union, Agnes Hars, KOPINT-TARKI Economic Research Institute-Budapest (Hungary)
• Oriantation paper on the Employment of Third Country nationals, Agnes Hars, KOPINT-TARKI Economic Research Institute- Budapest (Hungary)
• Integration programmes for New Comers in Europe: Achievements and Challenges Ines Michalowski, the University of Munster (Germany)
• Oriantation paper on the Induction Programmes in Europe, Ines Michalowski, the University of Munster (Germany)
• Labour Market Participation and Support for Migrants Entrepreneurship Jude Kehla-Wimkar , the aldeman for work and diversity in Amsterdam South-East City Council
• Make Your Home Here: the London Perspective on the Integration of Migrants Claire Geary, European & External Resources Officer, Lambeth Council, Laura Marziale, Cetra Projects Co-ordinator, Migrants Resource Centre, & Clare Whiting , Programme Co-ordinator, Olmec (United Kingdom)
• Labour Market Participation and Support for Migrants Entrepreneurship Jude Kehla-Wirnkar, Alderman of Work & Diversity, Amsterdam South East City Council (Netherlands )
• From the "informal"to the "formal" economy: the case of Migrant Women in Enna Aurelio Dugoni, project coordinator & Sigfrido Fadda, Chief Executive of Social Policies Sector, Municipality of Enna (Italy)
• Welcoming New migrants in the City of Ghent: the experience of Kom-Pas, the civic integration bureau for newcomers Koen de Mesmaeker, Kom-Pas General Director, Ghent (Belgium ).

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The Second Peer Review Workshop on Access for Migrants to Education, Health and Housing took place in Lecce from 24th till 27th of June.
The feedback from the First Peer Review Workshop allowed us to prepare a more balnced agenda in terms of presentations , interactive sessions and disovering the local realities.

The workshop started with the presentation of external success stories in the fields of Education ( Netherlands ), Health ( UK ) and Housing ( European City Network CLIP ) followed by a public disscussion.
In the afternoon of the same day the participants had an opportunity to meet the members of the Leecce Local Action Group and learn about their particular actions in the field of Intgration.

The second day was dedicated to the brainstorming awaken by the first day's input. More then four hours of the morning session were dedicated to deepen the reflexion and discussion on each of the the three themes: Education, Health and Housing.

In order to maximise the efficiency of this session all the participants were divided into three working groups:

1 . Migrants in Education chaired by Rubina Boasman from the Dutch Council for Education and Labour Market and Edward Adusei from Asterdam South East City Council

2. Access to Housing chaired by Ayse Ozbabakan from CLIP- European Cities Network and Yamina Guidoum from Qec-ERAN

3. Access to Health chaired by Katalin Nagy from Kopint Foundation Research Centre

A final report of the workshop will be ready by the end of October this year.

Download workshop documents:

• PREW and SGM final agenda

• Meeting Local Actors in Lecce

• Information pack

• List of participants

• Expenses claim form

• Strenghtening the implementation of Common Basic Principals insome EU member states - PRW 2 Final Report !!!!!

Presentations:

Plenery session :

• Best Practices in access to education in the Netherlands and some EU memberstates Rubina Boasman, Project leader Cultural diversity/ ESF projects, Council for Education and the Labour Market (The Hague, Netherlands)

• Housing and residential segregation of migrants in the EU Ayse Özbabacan, Coordinator European City Network CLIP, Department of Integration, City of Stuttgart ( Germany)

• Gateway Mental Health Project John O'Neil, Refugee Health Team, Lambeth Primary Care Trust

• Introduction on the Dutch society and Education- Orientation paper Rubina Boasman, Project leader Cultural diversity/ ESF projects, Council for Education and the Labour Market (The Hague, Netherlands)

• Housing, segregation and integration of migrants in the EU- Orientation paper Ayse Özbabacan, Coordinator European City Network CLIP, Department of Integration, City of Stuttgart (Germany)

Working Groups:

1. Education:

• Case study 1: Migration and Dutch language: Participation of parents in schools Kamal Amain , Interim Head of Social Development department, Amsterdam South East City Council

• Case study 2: The social and educational responses to migrant students needs in the Province of Huelva Antonio Casillas Quirós, Regional Coordinator, Education Department, Andalucia Region (Spain)

• Case study 3: Access of undocumented migrants to non-compulsory education in Catalonia: Effects of the Constitutional Court decision nº237/2007 Ignasi Manrubia , Lecturer in Administrative Law, University of Pompeu Fabra & Member of the Evolutions of Institutions Observatory, Barcelona (Spain)

• C ase study 4: Education programs of Menedék Hungarian Association for Migrants Ana Medjesi , Menedék Association, Budapest (Hungary)

• Conclusions Rubina Boasman, Project leader Cultural diversity/ ESF projects, Council for Education and the Labour Market (The Hague, Netherlands)

2. Housing:

• Case study 1: Migrants Housing in the city of Stuttgart Ayse Özbabacan, Coordinator European City Network CLIP, Department of Integration, City of Stuttgart (Germany)

• Case study 2: Public incentives as a means for facilitating access of migrants to housing and their implementation by the European Foundation for North-South Cooperation (FECONS) Mónica Montaño Garcés , Project coordinator (FECONS)- Huelva (Spain)

• Case study 3: Housing Options and Integration Charlie Conyers, Business and Housing Options Development Manager at Lambeth Council & Clare Whiting, Programme Co-ordinator, Olmec- London (UK)

3. Health

• Case study 1: Health for All within the National Health Service. The Experience of San Gallicano Hospital and NIMP of Rome Teresa D'Arca, MD & Asta Brauklyte, Intercultural mediator, National Institute for Health, Migrants and Poverty (NIMP) Rome- Italy

• C ase study 2: An excellence case within healthcare services for migrants in Rome: The Caritas out-patient service Annamaria Cacchione, MondoDigitale, Rome (Italy)

• C ase study 3: Healthcare GGZ and Amsterdam South-East choose a colour Mrs. Margo van den Berg, GGZ Kiest Kleur project Manageress

• Conclusions - Katalin Nagy, KOPINT-TARKI Economic Research Institute-Budapest ( Hungary)

 

 
The Third and the last Peer Review Workshop on Intercultural Dialogue and Participation took place in Brussels from 25 th till 27 th of November 2008.

The workshop began on Tuesday 25 th in the afternoon with a study visit of the Brussels Intercultural Action Centre (CBAI ) a non-profit association which overall aim is to actively promote intercultural relations in Brussels and within Belgian society in general. It provided LAG members with an opportunity to one to one exchange of personal and professional experiences in the field of Intercultural Dialogue promotion.

The next day was dedicated to more general knowledge sharing and discussion. The conference started with an overview of the Third Peer Review objectives and methodology presented by the project coordinator Yamina Guidoum. Then followed two external case studies from Murcia and Barcelona which introduced the notions of Inercultural Dialogue and Participation.

In the afternoon all the participants split in two Working Groups. The first one focused on the practical meaning of Intercultural Dialogue and the second one debated the themes of the importance of migrants' self-organisation and how to promote the political participation of migrants. Local expperiences were first presented by the partnership, followed by debates and conclusions

Given the fact that it was the last International Exchange Workshop, the third day's session was open to public in order to maximize the dissemination of project products and outcomes. 

Download workshop documents:

• PREW and SGM final agenda

• Information pack

• List of participants

• Expenses claim form

 

Presentations :

• Intercultural Dialogue Orientation Paper   Andres Antebi (ITD)

• Participation Orientation Paper  Claudia Carrasquillas (CPAIM) Spain

 

Plenery session : 

• Intercultural dialogue and participation of migrants in social and political processes Objectives and Methodology,Yamina Guidoum,  Project Coordinator, QEC-ERAN

• Diversity, participation and popular festivities: Barcelona's case, Andres Antebi Arnó, Researcher, University of Barcelona (Spain) 

• Building participation mechanisms for migrants: lessons from the experience of the Region of Murcia Claudia Carrasquilla , Head of participation programme, CEPAIM (Spain)

 

Working Groups :

1. Intercultural dialogue, what is it in practice?

• Intercultural dialogue, what is it in practice? , Nela Milic, Migrants Resource Centre, London (UK) 

• The New Londoners - Migrants Resource Centre free annual migrant and refugee newspaper   Anne Stoltenberg and Nela Milic, Migrants Resource Centre, London (UK) 

• Intercultural interventions in the district of Perez Cubillas Maria Mesa-Masa, Head of education programmes and Coordinator of intercultural department. Huelva Acoge (Spain)  

• Playing together: a recreation centre in Lecce  Klodiana Cuka , Scientific coordinator, Lecce (Italy)

2. The  importance of self-organisation  of migrants and their right to vote

• The role of Migrant deputy councillors in Lecce (Italy) Mamadou Lamine Toure, Deputy-Councilor, City of Lecce  

• Menedek Association: Network building project Yeva Adovba, Menedék Association, Budapest (Hungary)

• Integration of Migrants through Volunteering: INVOLVE project Edward Adusei , Senior Policy maker/ advisor Education and Integration. Amsterdam South-East City Council (Netherlands)

• Conclusions