Completed projects
- Migrants in the Spotlight
Objective: to contribute to improved understanding, awareness and reporting on migration issues, third country nationals, integration and related topics among media and students of journalism, including immigrants themselves, in order to facilitate more effective and accurate reporting on migration issues in Hungary, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia.
Duration: 14 month (1 November 2010 – 31 December 2011).
Project website: www.mits-eu.org
- Dialogue for Integration: Engaging Religious Communities (DIRECT)
The project ‘Dialogue for Integration: Engaging Religious Communities’ (DIRECT), implemented in seven EU countries, aimed at exploring this role in more detail by conducting research and through the promotion of an active dialogue between representatives of religious communities and host societies. DIRECT emphasized genuine two-way dialogue and integration, while employing a multifaith approach that seeks to include all religious denominations.
Project duration: December 2009 - June 2011.
Funded by: European Community under the European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals, Community Actions for 2008.
- Towards Understanding
The project "Towards Understanding” was committed to workers of Lithuanian public service sectors, in which they are directly serving and counselling third-country nationals.
The aim of the project was to improve diversity management knowledge, intercultural competence and to strengthen the capacity to provide services to third-country nationals of civil servants and service providers.
The project consisted of the following main activities:
- specialised education programmes and pilot trainings for officers and public servants, to develop the specific knowledge and skills needed to provide services for third-country nationals;
- capacity building of municipality workers, by preparing and disseminating the "Integration implementation guide” throughout the whole territory of Lithuania.
The specialized Training Programme, was developed together with project partners (University lecturers) and was dedicated to deepening cultural diversity knowledge and strengthening the diversity management skills of Lithuanian officials.
Project duration: 1 January 2009 - 31 December 2009.
- Accessible Information - Guarantee of Successful Integration
The aim of this project – better integration of third country nationals to Lithuanian society. Through better and targeted information for immigrants, including potential immigrants; the project seeks to decrease cases of unsuccessful migration and violation of immigrant’s rights.
Main activities of the project were personal consultation/ counseling of third country nationals residing or seeking residence in Lithuania and information spreading regarding the rights of migrants. Also a specialized information handbook for immigrants will be created, printed and disseminated.
In parallel, this information was spread among migration and other relevant specialists who are working directly with migrants, so they can refer them to the project. A special electronic newsletter was prepared in which the experiences of other countries was presented as well as recommendations for Lithuania on how to organize the integration process.
By improving knowledge of third country nationals on labour, education, and other welfare systems, the public and private services project seeks to facilitate better access for these relevant services, thus creating better conditions for integration.
Project duration: 1 January 2009 - 31 December 2009.
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Integration through Training and Employment/ Self-employment: Immigrant Community of Visaginas, Republic of Lithuania
Project duration: December 2000 – June 2003.