Next week, the Centre for Peace of Osijek will host two activities for INTEGRA project. On Tuesday 11th December at J.J. Strossmayer University, there will be a roundtable titled “MIGRANTS AND MINORITIES: OPPORTUNITIES, NOT THREATS”. The discussion will focus on the main aspects of good integration practices on the local level: from an asylum seeker to a fellow Croatian citizen. The public discussion will involve very important personalities. More specifically, we will be delighted to hear from Prince Wale Soniyiki and Twana Rasul about their direct experiences of respectively an asylee and a young man granted with subsidiary protection by…

An Intercultural evening entitled “A Vision for the Integration of Refugees in Bulgaria” was organized by the Bulgarian Council on Refugees and Migrants and Multi Kulti Collective with the support of the Representation of UNCR in Bulgaria on December 6, 2018. The event brought together representative of state institutions, municipalities, NGOs, universities, international organizations actively working for the integration of migrants. The aim was to share ideas on a vision for refugee integration in Bulgaria and to continue building and strengthening coalitions for solidarity and support to refugees and their integration. SDA team was happy to attend and to share…

In recent years Bulgaria commemorates November as the Refugee Month, to honor the courage of these vulnerable groups escaping persecution, conflict, and desperate poverty, some of whom look for a chance to rebuild their lives in our community. Sofia Development Association is a partner of the initiative Refugee Month. On November 30th, 2018, as part of INTEGRA project awareness building and advocacy campaign, we hosted in SofiaLab a series of community celebration events. “Community Drum Circle” was organized by Creators Association with the support of IOM Bulgaria, CVS-Bulgaria and SDA. Over 30 people from various nationalities played drums and percussion…

On 23rd and 24th of November 2018, Centre for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights held two-day workshop named City Integration Lab, within the project „Integration of the 3rd country nationals through Urban Partnerships - INTEGRA“. During the workshop, we identified the main integration challenges, goals that have to be fulfilled, actions and measures that need to be enacted and what resources are needed to fulfill the set goals. Using the SWOT analysis, we defined key characteristics of the City of Osijek and identified strategic factors that can be of importance in local integration. Defined area's of integration of migrants on…