EMBRACIN - Enhancing Migrants’ Bottom-up, Responsive and Citizen-led Integration in Europe

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The project EMBRACIN raised from a small but significant experience of Prof.Calò in Italy, which from a personal experience as host of migrants, developed a scheme called “6+6x6” which in 2018 allow him to win the European Citizen’s prize. This experience is the starting point for the joint work to build a transnational network of local authorities that intends to build-up, improve and leverage on the value of bottom-up and citizens-led initiatives for migrants’ integration. With a core network of 4 Municipalities and 2 networks of municipalities from 6 different countries (Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Sweden) the projects intends to reach out existing networks and platforms to share and scale-up this experience, developing and testing a model of integration which can be valid in other European Countries, starting from the assumptions of 6+6x6. The partnership will raise awareness and capacity building on integration policies topics among European local authorities, with the final aim to increase the number of less-experienced municipalities and local actors that want to learn from spontaneous social innovation leading to migrants’ integration and community well-being. Expected impact: migrant flows are a permanent phenomenon and not a temporary crisis. In order to manage it, the EU needs to use all available assets, including citizens’ active roles, to find stable and shared solutions to absorb current and future flows of 3rd country migrants. The project will explore the possibility of developing and testing a community-based European model of integration of Third-country nationals, in order to strengthen European approach to migrant flows. The model proposed will be adaptable and replicable in different EU countries. Main Outputs: 6 base-line analysis and 6 local Roadmaps for 6+6*6 scheme adaptation through knowledge exchange activities and the creation of EMBRACIN model (WP2); smart awareness raising campaign on integration of migrants for partners and extra-partnership stakeholders (policy-briefs, living lab, webinars etc) in order to enlarge the current network of local institutions through the sign of a MoU (WP3); experimentation of EMBRACIN model and qualitative and quantitative evaluation of outcomes for beneficiaries and promoters (WP4); mainstreaming of project results through tailored made communication campaign (WP5). Main Outcomes: 1) develop a network of local authorities committed in the creation of a European asylum seekers and refugees model based on citizen-led experiences 2) demonstrate that an effective transnational EU approach is possible. Beneficiaries: third-country nationals, in particular refugees and asylum seekers of age. The project will include in the experimentation a group of 6 people per partner, for a total of at least 36 refugees and asylum seekers.