Inclusion
VAI: Volunteering Among Immigrants
Funding
AMIF
Geographic focus
Greece, Italy, Germany, Austria
Dates
1 January 2018 –
30 June 2020
About
The ‘Volunteering among immigrants’ (VAI) project points out that immigrant volunteering can be both an instrument for and an indicator of integration.
Project Outcomes
- Volunteering with/by/among migrants opens up many new relationships which can be meaningfully embrace diversity, by allowing for an emerging space of “coming together”.
- A guide for volunteers and a toolkit to strengthen both voluntary organisations and prospective migrant volunteers and enhance migrants’ participation in voluntary groups.
- Series of pilot actions as a space for reflection upon the learning, rewarding, creative, and social potential of being involved with others.
Highlighted Publications and Tools
Coordinators
Panos Hatziprokopiou, Assistant Professor at the School of Spatial Planning & Development (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
Partners
- Collegio Carlo Alberto
- Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di ricerche sull'Immigrazione
- Danube University Krems
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Brussels School of Governance
- Technische Universität Chemnitz
- Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute
- Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
- University of Wrocław
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare
- Migration Policy Group
- Sabanci University
- York University
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