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SIRIUS project: latest research on the impact of Covid-19 on the participation of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in European Labour markets

The SIRIUS project (Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets) is a Horizon 2020- funded research project. It aims to develop an evidence-based way to deal with migration and asylum, building on a framework looking to identify enablers and barriers to migrants’, refugees’ and asylum seekers’ (MRAs) integration via the…

Projects

SPRING | Sustainable Practices of Integration

This project is closed and ran between 2020 and 2023. WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT? Sustainable Practices of Integration – SPRING is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project. SPRING focuses on the integration of recently arrived migrants in the context of the large-scale arrivals of refugees and other migrants since 2014. It aims to develop a…

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Integration of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the European labour market: a Video Journal of SIRIUS project

The SIRIUS (Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets) project is launching a video journal of its findings. Each week, the project will reveal the experiences in one of the countries studied over the course of three years, focusing on a specific practice that enhances migrants’ integration on the labour market, while also considering some other…

Publications

Inequalities in the European Semester – Policy Study

October 7, 2020 Since its inception, the European Semester has attracted interest in its effects on the EU’s social outcomes. Nevertheless, the Semester lacks a framework to monitor socio-economic inequalities within member states. Together with FEPS, Kalevi Sorsa Foundation (FI), Fondazione Pietro Nenni (IT) and Progresiva (SI), we present the Policy Study “Inequalities in the European Semester” : “As the European Semester will play a…

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SOLIDAR’s take on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum

SOLIDAR, and our member organisations, call for a Pact based on the principles of Human dignity, equality, and solidarity! The long-awaited proposal for a New Pact on Migration and Asylum was launched on Wednesday September 23rd by the UE Commission president, Ursula Von der Leyen, with the hope of reaching its approval before the end of the…

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SOTEU: did the social dimension get lost in translation?

SOTEU: did the social dimension get lost in translation? SOLIDAR and SOLIDAR FOUNDATION welcome Ursula von der Leyen’s recognition of the fragility of the current system amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. President von der Leyen has echoed the sentiment of SOLIDAR and SOLIDAR Foundation’s Secretary General Mikael Leyi on the need to establish a new normality in…

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SIRIUS project: Finding work is easier with new technology to help migrants enter the job market

Press Release from SIRIUS Project To mark World Refugee Day on June 20, 2020, a new application called WORKEEN launches to help migrants, asylum seekers and refugees gain access to the job market. WORKEEN is a serious game application, created by a team of political scientists, sociologists, economists and software engineers based in seven European countries…

Publications

Briefing Paper 95 – Protecting the most vulnerable in society: Migration and COVID-19

April 7, 2020 In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers (MRAs) lack access to health institutions and, if living in refugee camps and in reception centres, they live in close, confined spaces where social distancing is not possible. How can they be asked to perform this act of social responsibility…

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“Protect our laws and humanity!” Open Letter by +120 Organisations on EU-Turkey border

To: Athens, 6 March 2020 – The undersigned organisations are deeply concerned about recent developments at the Evros border and the Aegean islands where people are stranded at the borders of Europe, instrumentalized for political purposes, and subject to violations of their rights. We are also deeply concerned about the way the authorities of Greece and…