AMIF-funded project aiming to improve integration policies in Small and Medium Towns through the promotion of immigrants' participation.

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Joined October 2022
PISTE - Participation in Small- and Medium-Sized Towns: Experiences, Exchanges, Experiments receives funding from @EUHomeAffairs AMIF program. Any related tweets reflect only the views of the project owner.
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We are looking forward for Whole-Comm final event, which will put the spotlight on small localities to talk about asylum governance. For stakeholders interested in join them and other H2020 projects, registration is still possible at the link in the tweet below! #migrationEU
📢 Save the date! Join us on May 17th for the Whole-COMM Final Conference, a half-day discussion on empowering small localities and rural areas in the governance of asylum! 🔗 Learn more & register: bit.ly/4aK8eog @REA_research @EU_CoR
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✅ This week, the EU- Belong project was presented during the final event of the @PisteProject 💡The event create space for mutual learning, and to get inspired by the experiences of other organisations ➡️ Both projects are co- funded by the AMIFund of the @EU_Commission
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How to organize political participation of migrants in local integration policies in small and medium-sized towns? In this @PisteProject report we reflect on joint lessons and experiences with participation experiments in Bebra, Ninove, Voio & Fermignano. piste.uniurb.it/the-second-s…
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🤩Out now! @whole_comm's survey explores differences in attitudes to integration based on location (big cities vs. small towns), country-level variations, perceptions of Ukrainian refugees vs. refugees from outside the EU, and the role of policy. 📊👇 whole-comm.eu/working-papers…
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🚨 Our White Paper about participation of immigrants in SMSTs is out! Download it for free on our Migratowns series website: press.uniurb.it/index.php/mi…
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📢Migratowns volume 2 is finally out! The volume, containing the proceedings of our mid-term conference held in March in Thessaloniki, has just been published by Urbino University Press. To find more information and download the publication: piste.uniurb.it/the-proceedi…
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Just participated in @PopulationEU's discussion on welcoming newcomers at the local level. The panel of experts discussed better inclusion and integration policies for depopulating and rural communities. The agenda 👇 population-europe.eu/welcomi…
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A Policy Brief on participation has been released by @coe's Intercultural Cities! Despite not focused on small towns, these tools contain crucial recommendations for practicioners and are a core reference for our work. Check full text at the link below: coe.int/en/web/intercultural…
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PISTE Project retweeted
Are you a practitioner working on #migrant integration who is interested in following a good #Practice found elsewhere? 🎯The Good Practice Adaptation Toolkit, developed within the SprINg project is now translated into 🇵🇱 Polish, 🇫🇷French, 🇪🇸Spanish &🇮🇹Italian!
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Hoe samenwerken voor participatief integratiebeleid in kleinere gemeenten? Samen met Ona Schyvens en Gaëlle Mortier presenteer ik bevindingen van @PisteProject over hoe ook kleinere gemeenten capaciteit voor lokaal integratiebeleid kunnen opbouwen. birmm.research.vub.be/studie… – at Brussels, Belgium
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There's no rest for PISTE project partners! Right after the mid-term conference, team members headed towards Voio municipality for the field visit to the unaccompanied migrant minors' shelter in Pentalofos and the Consortium Meeting in Siatista. #IAMIF #MigrationEU #PISTE
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The Conference is over, but PISTE is only halfway! These have been amazing days of discussion and great presentations by scholars and practicioners. Keep following us because other important news are coming soon! #IAMIF #MigrationEU #PISTElive
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And a special thanks again to Solidarity Now for hosting us in their beautiful room at the Blue Refugee Center in Thessaloniki.
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It's time for our last session, the roundtable about "Integrating and participatingin small towns: specificities and policy suggestions", involving both practicioners and scholars and chaired by Katrin Grossmann. Streaming here: facebook.com/pisteproject/vi… #IAMIF #PISTElive
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Keina Espiñeira brings the experienceof Welcoming Spaces project (welcomingspaces.eu/) in Spain presenting "The role of citizen-migrants engagements in realising Welcoming Spaces. A comparative analysis in various European shrinking localities". #PISTElive
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We're back in Italy with the research of Paola Bonizzoni and @Iraklis_27 about "Civil society and migration in Italian small towns: analyzing bottom-up practices of inclusion", focused on the case of Como and Busto Arsizio. #IAMIF #MigrationEU #PISTElive
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The case of Bebra and their participation policy open our new session with Christina Kindler's presentation "Barriers for people with a migration background’s participation in smaller municipalities: experiences from Bebra". #IAMIF #MigrationEU #PISTElive
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Here we go again for the second day of PISTE Conference! Only two sessions today, but very intense: we start with experiences, plans and innovations for migrants' participation in SMSTs and we end with a round table of scholars and practicioners. #IAMIF #MigrationEU #PISTElive
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