EXTRANET
The call for proposals for the second phase of EPIM (2008-2011) is now closed: 15 long term (up to 3 years) and short term (up to 18 months) projects have been chosen by an independent jury to receive EPIM support.
The grantees will focus mainly on EPIM priority areas:
- The access to fundamental rights, services and justice for undocumented migrants;
- The involvement of the migrant’s voice in developing and implementing policy;
- The role of media and of the host community in encouraging and supporting integration.
6 Projects will be implemented primarily at the European level, but in coordination with organisations working at national level;
9 Projects will work primarily at the national level, but they have and will strengthen partnerships and networks with similar groups in other member States or at the European level both for implementation and advocacy.
Strategic grant making in critical areas is not the only goal of EPIM which is a programme aiming at strengthening the networking and capacity building of civil society organisations working in the integration field. Moreover, EPIM wish to advocate for the integration of migrants based on a broader approach to integration issues in search of policy coherence vis à vis the European agenda.
Number of Projects | Long / Short Term | EPIM Focus Areas | EU / Country Level |
15 projects selected
| 12 LT
3 ST | 7 Undocumented Migrants
5 Migrants Voices / Host Community
3 Media | 9 country level: Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, UK (2).
6 EU level (4 based in Brussels, and 2 in Paris) |
The selected grantees are:
Organisation's Name and web site | EU or Country level | EPIM focus areas | Time frame | Project Title | Project synopsis and strategic focus |
Association Primo Levi
| F | Undocumented | 3 years
| Promoting the appropriate care to victims of torture, through the creation of an information and training centre and building of advocacy | The project aims at improving the care and assistance provided in France to undocumented migrants suffering from the effects of torture. The project activities are: training of professionals, dissemination of specialized documentation, management of a library focusing on the effects of torture and the care to torture victims. Moreover the project intends to advocate for the specific sufferings and needs of victims of torture living in Europe. |
Institute of Race Relations
| UK | M. voice | 2 years | Alternative voices on integration | To document, strengthen and promote alternative perspectives on the integration debate, drawing on new civil society initiatives being pursued within Muslim, refugee and asylum-seeker communities across Europe. These initiatives will be consolidated into an active network able to influence European level policymakers and the media. |
Immigrant Council of Ireland
| IRL | M. voice | 3 years | Pathways to Parental Leadership | The rapidity of social change in Ireland is such that many schools are grappling with the particular challenges that are posed by new patterns of immigration. How these schools adapt to this changed social context has important implications for the transition of Irish society to a more multicultural state, which values and respects cultural and ethnic diversity in all its forms. The proposed programme will consider how increased parental participation impacts on school policy, facilitating greater integration of migrant students. It will consider existing programmes internationally and develop strategies for impacting on policies and procedures within the primary and secondary education system in Ireland. |
ENAR
| B-EU | M. voice | 3 years | Migrants, Rights and Integration Project: Practice to Policy (MRIP) | The project builds on grassroots contributions by national ENAR members active in migrant support to develop a practical operative framework of best practice in the field of migrant integration, strengthening and making more visible the migrant's voice at national and EU levels. |
Greek Refugee Council
| GR | Undocumented / Host community | 3 years | Integration Measures and Advocacy for Undocumented Migrants (IMAS) | IMAS aims to set up integration services for failed asylum seekers in Greece who consequently became undocumented. Based on a study among these persons and the municipalities of Attika, GCR will establish a set of legal and social measures aimed to improve their access to fundamental rights and facilitate integration. |
JRS
| B-EU | Undocumented | 3 years | Advocacy network for people on Destitution - ANDES | Building on its Study on Destitution in Europe (Epim 1), JRS-E aims to create a coalition of key actors in this area to highlight the topic at EU level. JRS-E is planning to organise national events through JRS offices to bring together a large number of stakeholders and to conclude with a European Conference |
Medecins du Monde
| F-EU | Undocumented | 3 years | AVERROES Network - Improving access to health care for asylum seekers | The Averroes project aims at improving knowledge on access to health care for asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in the EU. This project also seeks to promote these populations' right to access health care on equal terms with nationals. |
COSPE
| IT | Media / M. voice | 18 months | MediActive - Empowering migrants in the media sector | Sustain the process of creating a National association of media professionals of ethnic minority background and promote exchange of experiences (good practices) with similar organisations at EU level. Empower migrants through the adoption and implementation of inclusive media policies at local and national levels in Italy. |
Legal Info Centre For Human Rights
| EST | M. voice / Host community | 18 months | Addressing the problems of "new immigrants" in Estonia and in the Baltic States | The project analyses legal regulation and policy regarding ‘new'-immigrants in Estonia. It will be done considering Latvian Lithuanian experiences. The results of the study distributed among various actors will be a solid basis for debates. The recommendations improving existing Estonian programmes and legislation will be drafted, discussed and distributed. |
MIGREUROP
| F-EU | Undocumented | 3 years | European Borders Observatory | The European borders observatory will enable them to be looked at from an external independent viewpoint, and for information about the rights of migrants living in these spaces to be disseminated. It seeks to raise awareness within European civil society about the living conditions these foreigners face while integrating |
European Women's Lobby
| B-EU | M. voice | 3 years | Equal Rights, Equal Voices. Migrant Women in the European Union. | The main objective of the project is to actively involve migrant women in the development, monitoring and implementation of policies related to migration and integration at the European level. The project will build on two main components: expanding migrant women's networking and developing an advocacy strategy towards national and EU policies. |
People in Need
| CZ | Media / Host Community | 3 years | Let's create a more diverse media! | The goal of the project is to improve knowledge within the general public about migration and to create a more diverse media. The objectives of the project are to ensure a fair and balanced portrayal of immigrants in the media and to train media spokespersons from immigrant communities. |
PICUM
| B-EU | Undocumented / Migrants' voice / Host Community | 3 years | Promoting rights and facilitating justice for undocumented migrants | This project will implement a three year plan to strengthen the fundamental rights of undocumented migrants in Europe. This will be achieved by increasing the monitoring and reporting of undocumented migrants' human rights, engaging more directly with the development of laws and practices and improving access to justice. |
Stichting Nidos
| NL | Undocumented / Unaccompanied minors / asylum seekers | 18 months | Integration of uma's through appropriate reception | Guidance of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers towards their future is a minimum acquirement. Guardianship and counselling in Small Living Units and foster families that Nidos provides tham with, helps to adapt to and integrate in society. Nidos is willing to exchange knowledge and experiences on this subject at the European level. |
MRC
| UK | Media / M. voice / Host Community | 3 years | Migrants and the Media Project | Support for migrant communities in developing media strategies. Will build on the work of established projects in four countries; establish a forum to promote exchange of ideas and experiences; establish a website; conclude with production of a comprehensive media toolkit and a DVD Rom profiling examples of the work produced. |
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