Coping with Covid-19

With decreasing infection rates and increasing vaccination rates in June 2021, we took the moment to provide insights on how social innovation helped refugees, social workers and administrations to scope with the negativ impacts of Covid-19.

To do so, we gave the spotlights to all our Siforref Interreg partners in Ljubljana, Vienna, Parma, Bologna and Berlin. Follow us on our Facebook page to read the story.

ZRC SAZU conducted two focus groups on the situation of migrant women in Slovenia during Covid-19. One with 6 migrant women (5 with refugee status and one was accompanying husband who acquired a work visa) and one with four NGOs which are offering various sorts of support to migrant women in different slovenian cities.

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ASP’s International Protection Services is participating in a new campaign from the Italian Municipalities on “best practices to re-start” after Covid19

The region of Emilia Romagna organised on World Refugee Day 2020 a webinar titled :  “Civic engagement actions in the fight against Covid-19 and initiatives for a culture of asylum”

During the period of a national health emergency due to Covid19, the operators of the transversal training and work services addressed the beneficiaries of the SIPROIMI project (Protection system for refugees and for unaccompanied foreign minors) in Bologna Metropolitan Area  and continued to operate.

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Two of our project partners: University of Venice Ca'Foscari and Centro Immigrazione Asilo e Cooperazione internazionale will participate on 13 May -15:00-17:00 in an online webinar about the needs of migrants in Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic. The webinar is titled "The Needs of Migrants and the Missing Answers During the Time of Covid-19". 

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