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BUILDING BRIDGES IN THE EU MIGRATION CRISIS CONTEXT

Partnership Building Activity

Enhancing partnerships to foster critical thinking among youth about human rights, global citizenship, migration and refugees flows.

Portugal – Santa Maria da Feira

9th to 15th April 2017

Summary:

date/place: 2017.04.9-15, Santa Maria da Feira; Participating countries: Portugal, Albania, Algeria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece,

Italy, Jordan, Lithuania, Morocco, Palestine, Poland, Slovenia, Tunisia Participants: 1 per partner;

Hosted by: Rosto Solidário Rosto Solidário (RS) is a Portuguese NGDO (non-governmental organization for development), established in 2007. The organisation is based in Santa Maria da Feira about 30 km from Oporto. RS aims to foster global citizenship and solidarity by enhancing local communities’ human and social development. RS core principles are civic participation, social integration, solidarity, networking and partnership. The organisation scope of work includes four main areas: International Development Cooperation, Global Citizenship Education, Volunteering and Family-based Social Support. Gender Equity, Human Rights and Social Inclusion are RS cross-cutting subjects. Contacts: Rosto Solidário office (+351 256336001) / Paulo Costa (+351 929444740 or cooperacao@rostosolidario.pt / www.rostosolidario.pt Location and accomodation: Hotel:

Name: INATEL – Santa Maria da Feira Adress: Rua do Castelo, 4520-306 Santa Maria da Feira – Portugal GPS coordinates: 40º 55´ 19” N | 8º 32´ 21” O The hotel has a free Wi-Fi in the leisure areas; You will stay in a shared room of 2 people with different nationalities. All the rooms are of basic standard

and have own bathroom and restroom;

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City: Santa Maria da Feira is located in south of metropolitan area of Porto (the country's second largest city). Buses operate daily between both cities. The city is also regionally central in terms of health care services and social and cultural infra-structures. For more info: www.visitfeira.travel/w/index.php PBA activities:

The PBA activities, meals will be in the hotel and in diferents places in the in the city center (hotel is only a few hundred meters from the city centre);

There will be opportunity to go to the local shops and bars; In case of emergency, we will take care of you and drive to the nearest hospital.

Meals:

We will have three main meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and some snacks for the breaks; We will try to respond to the special dietary needs of group. We will ask you in the participant form.

REIMBURSEMENT

We will reimbursement the money via bank transfers after having the boarding passes and tickets of the travel. According the ERASMUS+ distance band we have:

Country Travel costs limit

Albania 360 €

Algeria 275 €

Belarus 530 €

Belgium 275 €

Bulgaria 360 €

Cyprus 530 €

Georgia 820 €

Greece 360 €

Italy 275 €

Jordan 820 €

Lithuania 360 €

Morocco 275 €

Palestine 820 €

Poland 360 €

Slovenia 360 €

Tunisia 275 €

HOW TO TRAVEL

Don´t buy the tickets before Rosto Solidário give a OK. After you had the flights tickets Rosto Solidário will support you with local transports (if need we will

prepare a mini bus picking up some participants). From Porto The activity will be held in Santa Maria da Feira (35 km from Porto). The nearest airport is Porto (Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport) and you can come:

By Bus / The company: TRANSDEV Airport–Porto City: Time Schedule Porto City – Santa Maria da Feira (in general we use only FEIRA and the bus stop is FEIRA (HOSPITAL):

Time Schedule Please be aware that public transportation to Santa Maria da Feira after 8p.m. is not easy to find.

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From Lisbon If you fly to Lisbon we need take the express bus every day (300 Km, around 4 hours) to Santa Maria da Feira (Feira) from the train station Lisboa Oriente in Lisbon (15 min distance from the airport by subway): Time Schedule

Introduction

Nowadays migration and refugee crisis is one of the most important issues in Europe. According to the Eurostat (2016), in 2015 alone there were 1 321 560 official asylum claims in the EU and this number is growing every year (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2).

The majority of refugees applies for asylum in Germany (Eurostat, 2016). Many citizens from several European countries believe that the refugee crisis is not their responsibility, refuse to think globally and accept a refugee quota proposal. A lot of European citizens are against migrants and refugees, there are many stereotypes, migrants are discriminated. However, the number of migrants and refugees keep growing Europe and sooner or later will become a part of European society. Refusing to think differently and manage the situation will bring an avalanche of different social, cultural, economic and even criminal problems in all European countries: Issues of identity (e.g. low sense of belonging, feelings of injustice towards one’s community) combined with social and economic exclusion “are amongst the main root causes contributing to young people's vulnerability, and increase their willingness to adhere to extremist, sometimes violent group” (Council of Europe: 2015).

In order to achieve an adequate migrants and refugees’ integration and transform the migration crisis into Europe’s economic growth, all Europeans must rethink their perceptions and attitudes in relation to this issue. This cannot be changed overnight, a constant work is needed. NGOs are the institutional entity that may have the higher impact in forming people’s attitudes and behaviour regarding migrants because they are closer to people. The same applies for youth organizations – they are the main reference for young people, who will make the decisions in tomorrow’s Europe.

NGOs and Youth organizations have a very important role but “migration crisis” is a new topic and both European public and private bodies lack the experience and knowledge on how to handle it. It is essential for NGOs to get the skills and build the capacity to work with the theme of migration at the local and European levels. Because Europe is a united mechanism, all countries are united in this challenging problem and thus they need to address it together. No single country can fight with the migration crisis alone. European countries must find common ground and adopt a unifying attitude and discourse to address this problem, where good practices are shared and adapted locally and collaboratively. We can all be stronger as long as we work together. Thus, partnership is a crucial aspect of solving the migration and refugees related problems.

There are a lot of experiences, practices and tools all over Europe related to human rights, global education, minorities, discrimination, gender and peace. How can it be shared and used for creating an adequate approach for working with migration issues?

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AIMS & OBJECTIVES

To create an opportunity to find good and reliable partners for creating European youth projects related to migration and refugee crisis;

Create a solid network of contacts and partnerships for working with migration and refugee crisis topics; Promote critical thinking about the migrations crisis; Understand the situation in different countries regarding migrant and refugee crisis; Share good practices, research and working tools on human rights education, global citizenship education

and community awareness; Acquire knowledge about project planning under Erasmus+ programme; Prepare Erasmus+ projects. Monitor and assess the project outcomes

TARGET GROUP

Volunteers and professional youth workers, working directly with young people; NGOs’ and project managers; Teachers working with young people.

Priority will be given to participants from organizations or groups, working or/and planning to work with migration or refugee crisis topics. Participants should be at least 18 years old. This Partner Building Activity will be held in English.

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PROGRAMME

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7

Arrival

Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast

Get to know each other

Thinking migration crisis (Word Café

Methodology)

Tools and practices – some

participants presentations

How to prepare a project?

Departure

Team building activities

Partner building: creating groups of common interest around themes & topics, based on needs and expectations

Preparing future projects

Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

Team challenge: "The town challenge"

Organization fair Visit to local

projects

Partner building: creating groups of common interest around themes & topics, based on

needs and expectations

Project evaluation

Youthpass

Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner in town Dinner Dinner in town

Get to know each other Free evening Intercultural evening Free evening Free evening Free evening

Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any question or request! Rosto Solidário team