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New Eurydice report on Integrating Students from Migrant Backgrounds

Integrating Students from Migrant Backgrounds into Schools in Europe: National Policies and Measures How is the integration of students from migrant backgrounds into schools tackled in Europe? These students continue to lag behind native populations in many areas. They face in particular a number of challenges related to their participation in schools that can affect

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Performance immigrant background

How do the performance and well-being of students with an immigrant background compare across countries?

The ability of societies to preserve social cohesion in the presence of large migration flows depends on their capacity to integrate immigrants. Education can help immigrants acquire skills and contribute to the host-country economy; it can also foster immigrants’ social and emotional well-being and sustain their motivation to participate in the social and civic life

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Von Somalia nach Biedenkopf

Mit nur 17 Jahren und einem eher realitätsfernen Europabild kam Hamse Abdirahman 2013 nach Deutschland. Den Einstieg ins neue Leben hatte er sich anfangs leichter vorgestellt: “Wir müssen hart arbeiten, nicht aufgeben”, sagt er. Heute macht er eine Ausbildung im hessischen Biedenkopf – das für ihn mittlerweile sein Zuhause ist. Mehr hier…

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Catching Up Intergenerational Mobility and Children of Immigrants OECD READ edition

Catching Up? Intergenerational Mobility and Children of Immigrants

Previous OECD and EU work has shown that even native-born children with immigrant parents face persistent disadvantage in the education system, the school-to-work transition, and the labour market. To which degree are these linked with their immigration background, i.e. with the issues faced by their parents? This publication includes cross-country comparative work and provides new

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Projekt RoMigSc - Mednarodni dan migrantov

Presentation of RoMigSc in Slovenia on International Day of Migrants

On December 18th 2017, International Day of Migrants, the European Commission in Slovenia and the Slovenian Philanthropy organized an event which was focusing mainly on projects and initiatives aimed at facilitating the integration of migrant children in Slovenia. At the event, among other activities, prof. dr. Nada Trunk Širca presented the project “Inclusion of Roma

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The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights visited Slovenia

Accessibility to education of Roma children and children of migrants in Slovenia During his visit to Slovenia from 20 to 23 March, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, examined the situation of Roma, migrants and asylum seekers and of the increasing number of people living in poverty in the country. He

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Participants at the Regensburg Meeting in March 2017

1st Project Meeting in Regensburg, Germany – March 2017

First meeting and learning – capacity building activity was held in Regensburg, Germany, parallel from 13 to 15 March 2017. During the meeting administrative & financial aspects of the project were discussed, as well as the plan of activities. Through learning activities, the project team was introduced with the work of voluntary organizations, got insight

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