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Médecins du Monde Roundtable Discussion on World Health Day (April 10th) – Access to health care for vulnerable people in Europe.
On 10 April in Brussels, Doctors of the World presented their findings concerning the people they meet in their daily medical programmes in 11 countries in Europe. The report makes recommendations to improve greater access to health care for vulnerable … Continue reading
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European Network of Migrant Women and the European Women’s Lobby – “Equal Rights. Equal Voices” report published!
This report (2012) by the European Network of Migrant Women and the European Women’s Lobby offers a comparative approach on migrant women’s integration into the labour market in six European cities: Athens, Dublin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Madrid and Marseille. This research, … Continue reading
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Héléna Van Aelst
Héléna joined the European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) as an Intern in April 2012. Héléna holds a MA in International Relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Lille and she is currently completing her Dissertation for a Masters … Continue reading
EPIM Call for Proposals 2012
The European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) is seeking to support projects by non-governmental organisations and registered charities active on migration and integration issues. EPIM will provide a limited number of grants for a period of one to three … Continue reading
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Euopean Network of Migrant Women Launches toolkit!
The EU Directive on the Right to Family Reunification in Europe: what is at stake for migrant women? The lobbying kit is part of the campaign by the European Network of Migrant Women and the European Women’s Lobby for better, … Continue reading
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Migration Policy Group – EU Immigration Portal launched!
The Portal, developed and managed by Unisys, the Migration Policy Group and Bilbomática is now live at: http://ec.europa.eu/immigration/ What is the EU Immigration Portal? The Immigration Portal has been built to serve as a first online point of entry to … Continue reading
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European Parliament Hearing 10th November – Family reunification and migrant women
The European Women’s Lobby (EWL), the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and the European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW) are delighted to invite you to a Hearing at the European Parliament entitled “Family Reunification legislation in Europe: is … Continue reading
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EPIM Case Studies 2011 – Released!
A document show casing 9 grantees as well as rationale behind EPIM, an overview of all projects and a foreword written by former Commissioner DG Home Affairs Antonio Vitorino has been released! Building on the case studies of 5 grantees … Continue reading
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EPIM-EPC Restrictive Migration Policies Conference
Restrictive migration policies and the responsibility of the media: the impact on undocumented migrants. The event took place on Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 09.30-17.00 at the Stanhope Hotel, Rue du Commerce 9, B-1000 Brussels. The European Policy Centre and the … Continue reading
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Launch Event of the Pathways to Parental Leadership Toolkit
Immigrant Council of Ireland are proud to launch their EPIM funded Project : The Pathways to Parental Leadership Toolkit The event marking the launch will be 13th September, please see below for the details. Guest Speaker (provisionally confirmed): • Prof … Continue reading
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*NEW REPORT* Integration as a two way process in the EU?
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPs) Report: Assessing the European Integration Fund (EIF) and the Common Basic Principles on Integration. This project examined the nature, limits and potentials of the concept of integration as a two-way process of mutual accommodation … Continue reading
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Launch of the new ECRE website
The European Council on Refugees and Exiles are proud to unveil their new and improved website! The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) has recently changed its website to ensure that the user can easily access information on ECRE’s … Continue reading
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Fidele Mutwarasibo of Immigrant Council of Ireland presents the Pathways to Parental Leadership Project at an EPC Policy Dialogue
Entitled ‘Education for inclusion: strategies to reduce immigrant marginalisation in Europe and the U.S’ the 28th June welcomed the sharing of practise and debate around the education provisions provided by host societies and the effects of parental engagement for children … Continue reading
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Antonio Vitorino: On the panel of ‘Diversity in Europe, a Crisis of Tolerance’
EPIM and The European Foundation Centre’s Diversity, Migration and Integration Interest Group (DMIIG) jointly organised a debate entitled ‘Diversity in Europe – A Crisis of Tolerance’ with a panal made up of the former European Commissioner for Justice and Home … Continue reading
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EPIM workshop on communications held 6-8th April in London
EPIM’s 6th workshop took place during 6-8th April in London. Entitled “Messaging, Media and Online Communications”, the workshop was hosted by the Diana Princess Memorial Foundation in the South Bank. As well as site visits to NGOs around London, the … Continue reading
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Zakeera Suffee
Zakeera joined the European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) in March 2011. Previous to this she studied a Master of Science at the School of Oriental and African Studies in Migration, Mobility and Development and a BA (Hons) in … Continue reading
Sheena McLoughlin
Sheena McLoughlin is the Programme Manager at the European Programme on Integration and Migration (EPIM). She previously worked as a Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre (EPC), a Brussels-based independent think tank, where her work involved monitoring and analysing … Continue reading
Conference on Media and Integration
ERLAI in collaboration with EPIM, organised a seminar on “Engaging the Media to foster Integration – Good practices from NGOs & Regional authorities” (2 March 2011, Brussels). Download the concept notes, the agenda and the report
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Article about benefits of EPIM by Juliet Prager in Alliance magazine
Juliet Prager (Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust) has published an article in Alliance magazine (March 2011) on the experience of collaborating as an EPIM Partner Foundation. Read the article here (courtesy of www.alliancemagazine.com)
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Antonio Vitorino writes the Foreward for EPIM Case Studies
The first wave of EPIM Case studies showcases the work of 5 EPIM grantees: the Immigrant Council of Ireland, Stichting Nidos, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), Migreurop and Médicins du Monde. According to the foreword by … Continue reading
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MdM/HUMA make significant steps ahead in ensuring access to healthcare for undocumented migrants in the EU
The European Parliament’s resolution on Reducing health inequalities in the EU, adopted on 8 March 2011, calls on EU Member States to tackle inequalities in access to health care for undocumented migrants. HUMA, PICUM, EWL, and EAPN all played a … Continue reading
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Migreurop encourages the EU not to be afraid of democracy in North Africa
The question of the European borders is more and more in the headlines (e.g. the Southern border with Libya, Tunisia and Egypt today; the Eastern one with Greece and Turkey a month ago; Canary Island 5 years ago, etc.). For … Continue reading
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Greek Refugee Countil promotes the exchange of information as tool for peaceful coexistence
The Greek Council for Refugees GCR in its endeavor to breach conflicts, differences and misunderstandings in society has started to build communication bridges between undocumented foreigners and the Greek majority. Since the 1st of February 2011, a first contact to … Continue reading
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Immigrant Council of Ireland – ‘Count Us In’ campaign
On February 17th, 2011, the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) launched the Count Us In campaign. The aims of the campaign are: (1) to raise awareness among naturalised citizens of their right to vote in the 2011 General Election; (2) … Continue reading
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Contribute to an independent assessment of the European Integration Fund (EIF)
EPIM is supporting a new initiative, coordinated by CEPS, to produce an independent evaluation of the European Integration Fund (EIF) and the implementation of CBP1: “Integration as a two-way process”. To contribute, download the flyer and fill in the online survey
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