IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION TO RURAL AREAS 19-20 SEPTEMBER 2017 IN VARBERG, SWEDEN THANK YOU, for participating in our second network meeting in Varberg, Sweden. Your participation made it an enjoyable, learning and not at least, very inspiring conference. Now an intense period of wrapping up and preparing for our next network meeting starts for the members in the steering group of IIRA. We will analyze the material and documentations to find the most productive topics to continue working with during our next network meeting in Germany! We will also analyze your answers from the evaluation that you will receive in next week so we´ll be sure to have all of your inputs while planning. In this folder you will find all documentation from our two days together and contacts to all participants and speakers so that you can keep and get in touch with each other. You will also find the presentations from our keynote speakers from day one. Don´t forget to visit our facebookpage: Immigrant Integration to Rural Areas, and welcome to apply for membership in the FB-group with the same name. See you all soon! Emma, Emma, Marion & Elinor CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE CONFERENCE'S LECTURERS The conference was organized by: Marion Eckardt: [email protected] Elinor Forsberg: [email protected] Emma Gröndahl: [email protected] Emma Thor: [email protected] Here you will find the film about Sweden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_asVWhfZYg Here you will find Gapminders presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3RAm0NmNWVIaE9MdWJaWG5peVE/view Olof Granström:[email protected] Mikael Arevius: [email protected] Scroll down to find the presentation about “Why do non-profit organisations involve in integration?” You can also click here. Josefin Heed: [email protected] Scroll down to find the presentation about “How can we introduce new comers to the labourmarket and include work with equality?” You can also click here. Engella Ameri: [email protected] John Willhelmsson: [email protected] Private and non-profit inititatives in Hylte Ingemar Lund: [email protected] Pär Petersson: [email protected] Mohammed Abazeed: [email protected] Integration of the young Kastriot Morina: [email protected] Hylte municipality Christer Grähs: [email protected] Emma Saarenpää: [email protected] Varberg municipality and business Azizah Degez: [email protected] Ingemar Andersson: [email protected] Malin Sinanaj: [email protected] Welcoming refugees and migrants to rural Europe – Why do non-profits get involved? www.europeanruralparliament.eu • Self-determination theory * • Humans’s three basic needs: competence, relatedness and autonomy. • When these needs are met motivation can happen • When the needs are not met motivation disappears *Developed by Ewdard L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan • the volunteer believes in his/her ability to contribute • the volunteer feel support and a sense of community with the others who are involved • the volunteer can make her/his own choices and have influence on the work based in the own engagement. Government/authorities Practical/economical Volunteer Other citizens Knowledge Government/authorities Practical/economical Organisation Communication Volunteer Other citizens Knowledge Meetings, good examples Education/training What can you do to create better conditions for people who want to get involved in integration on a voluntary basis? Integration Halland Coherence and Personal Development at the Right Time (SPURT) – Your future track! Utbildning- och arbetsmarknadsförvaltningen Projekt goals • Helping new arrival refugees to find their place in the Swedish society. • Shortening the way to Swedish labor market and/or further studies. Objectives • To meet, identify needs and implement supportive efforts for new arrival refugees, who are currently in their establishment phase, registered at the Swedish Public Employment Service in Halmstad municipality. Desired effects • Positive socio-economic gain, • New arrival refugees experience a sense of coherence, comprehensibility and meaningfulness in their new country, • Become self-sufficient through work or further studies. Horizontal principles Gender equality Focus on gender issues in the society, at the workplace - and perspectives on girl and boy, man and woman, rights and obligations, democracy and human rights. Equal opportunities • Focus on rights and inclusion of all kinds of people, • Understanding and removing barriers that may prevent individuals from receiving an equal opportunity, • Access to information in easy-read Swedish, different languages, sounds, videos etc. Non –diskrimination • Ensuring that everyone regardless of race, gender, sexuality, age, disability and religion is offered equal opportunities. Implementation Our aim is to... • Facilitate a faster step toward employment or further studies. • Help the participants to find a context in their private and professional lives by using the methods ” Sense of Conherence” and Building Bridges. Part 1: Me/Who am I? Focus on the individual • Identifying personal goals and needs, group exsercises and discussions about finding a contex in a new country, • Ensuring the group members feel confident, trust and respect each other. Part 2: Me and Sweden Focus on the individual and the Swedish society To understand the Swedish norms and values, cultural similarities and differences, rules and laws. Part 3: Me and gender equality Focus on individual and gender equality • Equal rights and different grounds of discrimination, • Gender equality and its ëffects on the integration of refugees and more deeply on the individual persons, • Focus on employment equality and risks for cultural clashes and misunderstanding Swedish gender equality policy Economic equality between women and men Women and men shall have the same opportunities and conditions with regard to education and paid work that provide them with the means to achieve life-long economic independence. Equal distribution of unpaid care and household work Women and men shall take the same responsibility for household work and shall have the same opportunities to give and receive care on equal terms. Part 4: Me and my future Focus on individual, employment and studies • Information about the Swedish labour market, • Write CV and personal letter, • Job search and prepare for job interviews, • Help the individuals to create their own personalized future plan, • Discus possible cultural crashes at the work. SPURT participants Target: 40 new arrival refugees SPURT 1 • 27 Participants (17 male och 10 female) SPURT 2 • 26 Participants (21 male och 5 female) SPURT 3 • 39 Participants (33 male and 6 female) SPURT 4 • 48 Participants (35 male and 13 female) Contact information: John Wilhelmsson [email protected] 0738505173 Engella Ameri [email protected] 0766111526 Facebook: SPURT-ditt framtidsspår! Utbildning- och arbetsmarknadsförvaltningen CONTACT LIST AUSTRIA Name: Andrea Wieser Title: Caritas Organization: Caritas Name: Isolde Fürst Name: Barbara Loferer andrea.wieser@caritas -salzburg.at Title: Leader-Manager Title: Leader-Manager [email protected] [email protected] Name: Angelika Koidl Title: volunteers network Organization : Freiwilligenzentrum / Ekiz [email protected] Name: Johanna Maria Heumader-Schweigl Title: Miteinand-Koordinatorin Organization: Name: Daniela Atzl Title: NGO [email protected] [email protected] Name: Anna-Maria Pucher Title: NGO Organization: Excursion: 4 Name: Isabella Ortner Title: Volunteers network Organization: Freiwilligenzentrum Name: Jutta Binder [email protected] Title: Evangelic church [email protected] Name: Armin Brugger Title: Organization: ZEMIT [email protected] LIST OF PARTICIPANTS, AUSTRIA Name: Klaus Ritzer Name: Particia Kleibert Name: Karl Geier Title: NGO Title: NGO Title: Integration Commissioner Organization: Kommunity! Organization: Kommunity! Organization: Gemeinde Steinach [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Name: Katharina Jörg Title: volunteers network Organization : [email protected] Name: Peter Wachter Name: Maria Elisabeth Trenkwalder Title: Chamber of commerce Title: Leader-Manager [email protected] [email protected] Name: Kirsten Mayr Title: integration Commissioner Name: [email protected] Rosemarie Obojes Title: NGO Organization: Integrations Name: Melanie Steinbacher Initiative Matrei Title: [email protected] Leader-Manager [email protected] LIST OF PARTICIPANTS, AUSTRIA Name: Sarah Schwaiger Title: Integration Commissioner Organization: Tiroler Sozialer Dienste [email protected] Name: Sevencan Meral Title: Integration Commissioner Organization : Stadt Kufstein [email protected] Name: Stefan Niedermoser Title: Leader-Manager Organization: LAG [email protected] LIST OF PARTICIPANTS, FINLAND Name: Hanna-Liisa Sutinen Title: Refugee tutor Name: Eeva Raukko Name: Anne Kivelö Organization: Title: Project advisor Title: Family welfare worker [email protected] Organization: Leader Joutsenten Organization: Urjala reitti LAG municipality [email protected] [email protected] Name: Jatta Kurppa Title: Social coordinator Name: Eliisa Vesisenaho Organization: City of Rauma Title: LAG manager Organization: [email protected] Pirkan Helmi [email protected] Name: Arja Heikkinen