Project “NEAR – NEwly ARrived in a common home”

Pubblicato da ISMU_editor a 1 March 2021

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NEAR is a two-year project funded by the European Commission under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), relied on a consortium made up of Iniziative e Studi sulla Multietnicità (ISMU, Italy), Tamat NGO (ITALY), Cardet NGO (Cyprus), AidGlobal (Portugal), UCSC (Italy).

NEAR aims at fostering the process of integration of newly arrived migrants (adults and minors) throughout their settlement in the host countries.

This project is meant to raise awareness as well as enabling knowledge and cross-cultural transfers between migrants and local communities by using a bottom-up strategy, working on a local level (Lisbon, Nicosia, Perugia and Milan).

NEAR will do so by

empowering community agents – members of diaspora associations – on how to inform newly arrived migrants >> training
supporting asylum seekers and IP holders in their participation in labor market >> orientation, training, agriculture labs
fostering integration of newly arrived minors in compulsory school age >> workshops, labs, urban tours, events

providing orientation for newly arrived University students in their access to academic path >> conventional and unconventional maps, handbook, networking
promoting exchanges and interactions between local communities and newly arrived migrants through a communication campaign (maps, treasure hunting), built together with NEAR beneficiaries
disseminating project’s outcomes and reaching a wider audience (video documentary, website, newsletter, social media, press release)

News from the project

New insights from the NEAR – NEwly ARrived in a common home project

In Milan the neighbourhood around the railway of the Central Station will turn into the place where in the next two years we will be developing ideas, events and relationships!

The choice of this district was inspired by the Central Station as a place of exchange, a very meaningful place for many newcomers arriving in Milan, as well as the place where ISMU has its headquarters.

A remarkable neighbourhood, where through a number of activities in which we will involve citizens and newcomers, we aim at reshaping the narrative linked to the Central Station.

Stay tuned!

Strategy/Methodology

working on a local level (Lisbon, Nicosia, Perugia and Milan)
employing a botton-up approach
peer-to peer strategy

Beneficiaries

newly arrived (adults, child and university students), members of diaspora, diaspora associations, volunteer associations, local communities, wider public, national and European organizations

PRESENTATION

NEAR is a two-year project (March 1^st 2021 – February 28^th 2023)
funded by the European Commission under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF – 2019)