The evolution of the European Union’s Immigration strategy: the Voluntary Solidarity Mechanism
In the previous post, we made an introduction to the New Pact on Immigration and Asylum explaining that the main objective is to make reception procedures more effective with new border controls and procedures and the reform of the Schengen system. In today’s post, we will discuss the theme of solidarity, while our next post…
Empowering Inclusion: FEEL Project meeting in Turin
From October 2 to 5, 2023, Turin, Italy hosted the first transnational meeting of the Erasmus+ project, “Fostering RefugEEs inclusion – FEEL”. The project (feel-project.eu) is geared towards equipping educators, school leaders, and youth/migrant organization professionals, with enhanced tools to seamlessly integrate individuals, particularly Ukrainians, into both the educational system and the broader local community.…
The evolution of the European Union’s immigration strategy: from Schengen to the New Pact of 2023
In September 2023 the European Union presented a new strategy to address the immigration issue that has been increasingly present in the European public debate in recent months. The pact is a set of regulations and policies which aims to define an European approach to the migration phenomenon, in particular on how to manage migration…
FEEL project: kick off meeting
First Online Meeting and Communication with partners for the Erasmus+ project “Fostering RefugEEs inclusion (FEEL)” with number: 2022-2-BE01-KA220-SCH-000100260. On 19/04/2023, the project consortium held its kick off meeting via Microsoft Teams – video chat with all partners of the European FEEL project. Essentially, there was a first introduction, a brief presentation and description of each…
United In Diversity: An Intersectional Fight Against Discrimination
A comprehensive recap of racism and discrimination in Europe Giovanni Dal Prà As explained in the previous articles of this series, racism and discrimination persist as challenging issues within the European Union. Despite the EU’s commitment to upholding human rights, equality, and social cohesion, instances of racism and discrimination continue to undermine these principles. Discrimination…
IMPACT: project approved
IMPACT PROJECT Educating on migration and climate challenges Project approved| July 2023 Our Project Has Been Approved by AEF – Europe – Belgian National Agency! We are excited to announce that our project has received official approval from AEF – Europe, the Belgian National Agency. This recognition marks an important milestone and confirms the relevance…
United in Diversity: An Intersectional Fight against Discrimination
Afrophobia in Europe Laura Maschio As was thoroughly explained in the previous articles of this series, discrimination is unfortunately still a persistent reality in Europe up to this date. One of the most racialized and marginalized groups in European societies are people of African descent and black Europeans, that every day face systemic discrimination and…
United in diversity: An intersectional fight against discrimination
Antigypsyism: a persisting stigma in Europe Giammarco Frattoli Every day, the 10 to 12 million estimated Roma people in Europe are denied basic human rights and are victims of widespread discrimination, racist attacks, hate speech and public stigmatisation under the derogatory term of “gypsies”. Therefore, this article, the fifth of the series, proposes to focus on…
United in diversity: An intersectional fight against discrimination
Muslims are not extremists: Stop Islamophobia Alessia Rollo After an overview of the first two articles on discrimination in general in Europe and the strategies put in place to tackle it, the previous article analysed specifically the ethnic and racial discrimination with which the Asian community in Europe live. On the same subject, this article…
YouCan Final Training in Cáceres
You Can Final Training in Cáceres The YOUCAN project is a KA2 European Project aimed at modernizing and reinforcing education, training systems, and youth policies to address the challenges faced by migrant youth school dropouts and social exclusion. From the 8th to the…